Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , the Tory Government has gone on about freedom of choice in education but it has only been those with money who have had any real choice . |
| 2 | Lee Teng-hui , chairman of the ruling Kuomintang party ( KMT ) , was sworn in as President of Taiwan at a ceremony in Taipei , the capital , on May 20 , having been chosen by the country 's electoral college in March [ see pp. 37318-19 ] . |
| 3 | On July 1 Gopal Singh was sworn in as Governor of Nagaland after the transfer of Gen. ( retd ) K. V. Krishna Rao to Jammu and Kashmir [ see above ] . |
| 4 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 5 | Deciding that captaincy was affecting his batting , he stood down in favour of Fletcher for a season , resuming again in 1989 when the county did well but his own form was fairly ordinary . |
| 6 | That knowledge , handed down by word of mouth over generations is invaluable . |
| 7 | Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning . |
| 8 | Each contributed in different ways to the Watkinson counter-reformation that began soon after he took over as Minister of Defence in October 1959 . |
| 9 | The fiery Scot has had numerous run-ins with referees and linesmen since taking over as manager of Rangers in 1986 . |
| 10 | My father felt that his lack of poise and connections had led him to being passed over in favor of people of less ability but more social graces . |
| 11 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 12 | It was revealed when ‘ Essex Express ’ unit No 309605 was handed over on completion of refurbishment at Wolverton Works under a £17.5million contract in March . |
| 13 | And is there any possibility — or is it part of current thinking — that InterCity tracks will be sold off as part of InterCity in the highly improbable event of the right hon. and learned Gentleman still being in a position to proceed with such a sale ? |
| 14 | In practice , it is more difficult , because the effectiveness of advertisements falls off with frequency of exposure in a particular paper , so you have to be very careful that you are comparing like with like . |
| 15 | Posing as the authors of a book on fisheries of the world , Thornton and Higgs , accompanied by an interpreter , set off in search of evidence of the continuing carnage . |
| 16 | Do Compact employers guarantee time off without loss of pay for trade unionists to work in schools ? |
| 17 | In letters to the Danish foreign minister , Poul Nyrup-Rasmussen , whose country holds the EC 's rotating presidency , and the EC commission president , Jacques Delors , Mr Beregovoy said he wanted the discussion of the oilseed deal put off pending completion of studies on whether the accord was compatible with EC common farm policy . |
| 18 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 19 | Much of the farming was fairly traditional but the premium received from quality products often made up for lack of weight in calves and lambs . |
| 20 | Apart from Perdita , the Rutshire team for the Jack Gannon Cup consisted of Justin and Patrick Lombard , farmer 's sons who 'd spent their lives in the saddle and who made up for lack of finesse with dogged determination , and David Waterlane 's son , Mike , now nearly twenty-one , who played like an angel when his father was n't on the sideline bellowing at him . |
| 21 | She was involved in the London Women 's Film Group and the setting up of Cinema of Women in the late seventies ; then there was a sense of a political project , opportunities for women to meet and discuss ideas and motivations . |
| 22 | The tumour had recurred and he had four previous operations , ending up with anastomosis of duodenum to mid-transverse colon . |
| 23 | It may be that the government has a proportion of the blame but you 're not surely condoning teachers who have these problems being up in front of children in the classroom ? |
| 24 | What are the skills that we need when we stand up in front of people to actually deliver what we have to say |
| 25 | Others at the company say that the company has the capacity to make 30m 80486s this year , up from capacity of 15m in 1992 . |
| 26 | The draft on revelation ( and a companion , ‘ On preserving the deposit of faith in its purity ’ , also rejected ) were prepared mainly by theologians of this tendency , who had been brought up to think of modernism as the most fundamental , comprehensive and insidious of all heresies . |
| 27 | It 's all one to me but time 's getting on and your Auntie 'll want you back early if you 're to be up at crack of dawn in the morning . ’ |
| 28 | He was setting it up by way of defence to her application for leave to proceed on the judgment . |
| 29 | It was set up by Act of Parliament in 1966 to manage the airports at Heathrow , Gatwick , Stansted and Prestwick . |
| 30 | Much of this information is picked up by word of mouth from previous students and workmates . |