Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fiery Scot has had numerous run-ins with referees and linesmen since taking over as manager of Rangers in 1986 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | This puts services which used to be available free from the hospital out of reach of patients on low income and those with chronic health conditions who require multidisciplinary care . |
| 7 | The platform 's motion was easily carried , as amended , though no one knew what the amendment was , and the bulk of the hall filed patiently out in search of cups of tea and a Bath bun . |
| 8 | But unless you are absolutely certain that you will be able to get back on top of things within a very short period of time , do n't do it . |
| 9 | but unless you are absolutely certain that you will be able to get back on top of things within a very short period of time , do n't do it . |
| 10 | AGE Concern in Londonderry today hit back at criticism of cutbacks in its services in the city . |
| 11 | The description by Jill Tweedie of the organic sheep farmer I was travelling to meet bounced from the page : ‘ This once respectable female stripped off and began sitting around in front of cameras with her legs apart and her hands in unmentionable places . ’ |
| 12 | WHEN Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie went to a party in London , a posse of armed police stood by in case of attacks by Muslim fanatics . |