Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped , waiting for armed Twenty-fourthers to swarm out of every window , demanding to know why Robert was proposing to barge in on their most secret and important ceremony . |
| 2 | It appeared to be an occupational hazard , walking down dark and dingy — or even brightly lit — corridors , waiting for strange creatures to pounce out at unexpected moments . |
| 3 | A major feature of Suharto 's budget speech was a call for private companies to offer up to 25 per cent of their shares to workers ' co-operatives , and to facilitate this by providing soft loans . |
| 4 | It was then the moment for old colleagues to catch up on old times . |
| 5 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 6 | It has reconstituted for six months to come up with specific proposals and a plan . |
| 7 | One logical fix to this geographical mis-match is for inner-city blacks to commute out from the ghettos to the suburbs . |
| 8 | Walking : A paradise for keen walkers with 350 kms of marked paths to ramble along at your leisure . |
| 9 | This ‘ Rock Soap Opera ’ has the usual self-indulgent moments , but there are lashings of high points to make up for it . |
| 10 | The propensity of these birds to fly off with any attractive object , is so well known to the natives , that they always search the runs for any small missing article that may have been accidentally dropped in the bush . |
| 11 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 12 | This new venture aims over a period of three years to train up to ninety students not only as teachers of BSL but as BSL English interpreters . |
| 13 | Those people that had found ways of structuring their time , of organising themselves round routines , or having particular sorts of appointments to make _ and this could take many forms , like , for example , just getting up early in the morning to play a sport game , for example , or arranging to meet other people at particular times _ those people that had got some sort of time structure in their lives and some sorts of regular activities to carry out in their lives erm tended to be a lot less severely affected by unemployment than those people that did n't have these sorts of activities , this sort of time structure . |
| 14 | There are plenty of great walks to try out in the forest itself and some of the surrounding peaks — the forest boundaries include some of the lower Cairngorm summits . |
| 15 | Two great examples of sparkling wines to look out for are Sainsbury 's Sparkling Vouvray Brut , £6.15 and Sparkling Saumur , £5.75 . |
| 16 | A recurrent criticism of historical approaches in physical geography up to the 1950s was that they had insufficient knowledge of environmental processes to fall back upon which could enhance the understanding of landscape . |
| 17 | There are a number of important factors to look out for . |
| 18 | If I 've missed anything , I have had lots of other things to make up for it . |
| 19 | Firstly whether these subscriptions should be for one year only or whether it should be fixed for three years to tie in with the tri-annual general meeting . |
| 20 | Some agencies prefer that provision should be made to make it easier for confused tenants to move on from sheltered housing . |
| 21 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 22 | As such , it is natural for these buyers to stay out of the market until they are sure that prices have hit the bottom and are beginning to rise . |
| 23 | And was it common for riveting squads to accumulate out of families ? |
| 24 | I mean if the evaluation suggests that something or other needs changing , then you want people to be already so interested in the evaluation and perhaps looking for useful things to come out of it , that they are already half committed to the changes . |
| 25 | This may , indeed , have some merit , but by itself it is not likely to help with decisions about major investments to keep up with the technological race . |
| 26 | The Academy has developed some links with foreign companies to make up for the cash shortfall ; most notably , it has recently sold software to analyse gas distribution in pipelines to Ruhrgas in Germany . |
| 27 | For the planners ' part , they know that they must come up with good results to make up for the inadequacies of the previous strategies . |
| 28 | The simplicity of her books is above any attempts to write down to anyone . |
| 29 | ‘ Now the chief priest is going to say a prayer for the boats on the beach , ’ he explained , as they went with other spectators to join in behind the end of the procession and follow it across the square and on to the sand . |
| 30 | But Fulton said : ‘ We have a strong squad with new names to look out for in Tim Brasher , Brad Godden and Steve Renouf . ’ |