Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although workers tended to stay with one firm most of the time , fluctuations in trade meant that it was by no means unknown to move about on a short-term basis . |
| 2 | The fireworks display that heralded the opening of Antwerp 93 went off like a damp squib . |
| 3 | He looked up to see the worried face of William Prime staring down at him . |
| 4 | To cancel unc to its lowest terms : Notice we neatly cross out the 18 and 27 and put above them the number of times 9 goes in to each . |
| 5 | If they do n't , one should dismiss the idea of cars unable to get out of the garage as sensational rubbish-mongering . |
| 6 | The bridge is also sensitive and highly accurate for finding the loss of a capacitor or inductor from the value of R 1 indicated by at balance . |
| 7 | Despite the government 's resolution of Aug. 11 to pay up to 12,000 roubles per tonne for standard quality grain in an attempt to persuade producers to sell to the state , only a quarter of the target figure for state reserves had been delivered by mid-August . |
| 8 | His paper of January 1856 turned out to be only the beginning of a long argument about the need to abolish serfdom in order to put the Russian army on a sounder footing . |
| 9 | For any given cut into the cliff by the sea ( AB on Fig. 8.6 ) the amount of debris liable to collapse on to the beach will be proportional to the height of the cliff . |
| 10 | What we have here is the untarnished pop of Pet Shop Boys mixed with the stylish swish of Pixies and the expertise of REM all rounded off with the insane power of a contemporary Wagner . |
| 11 | It may be a cliché , but the compactness , the lack of weight , abundance and responsiveness of power , massively powerful brakes and rigidity of suspension all add up to a car that feels very much like a big kart . |
| 12 | In the Ixcán region of Quiché province , the army has permitted the re-establishment of co-operatives first set up in the 1970s . |
| 13 | There could be millions of them — hundreds of millions — thousands of millions of stars all swallowed up in the one hole . ’ |
| 14 | Hayward and his collaborators are among those to have reported this discovery in ANAS ( vol 79 , p 7842 ) ; they , and a collaborative team led by Bob Gallow of the US National Institutes of Health and Carlo Croce of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia , have shown that the myc gene is strategically placed at the breakpoint where the translocated fragment of chromosome 8 links up with chromosome 14 in lymphoma cells . |
| 15 | The question mark at the end of line 4 refers back to ‘ with whom ? ’ 'No vicissitude can find' is therefore a statement of fact , implying a pagan , not a Christian attitude . |
| 16 | At the end of 1204 Otto 's brother , the Count Palatine Henry , the landgrave of Thuringia , the king of Bohemia , Adolf , archbishop of Cologne , and the duke of Brabant all went over to Philip , mainly inspired by their own self-interests . |
| 17 | For a second she blacked out , not from pain but from the shock of it all , and when she opened her eyes she was looking into a sea of faces all staring down at her . |
| 18 | These works produced only two Scottish replies arguing against the English case , The Complaynt of Scotland , and the recently discovered Ane Resonying of ane Scottis and Inglis merchand betuix Rawand ( Rouen ) and Lionis ( Lyons ) by the royal councillor and administrator William Lamb , an imagined discourse between two merchants travelling in France , in which the Scottish merchant utterly refuted , point by point , the claims of Henry VIII set out in his 1542 Declaration . |
| 19 | The key to understanding the distributions of Fig. 4 turns out to be closed ballistic orbits , which provide the framework for comprehending the general orbital structure of any potential ; most orbits can be interpreted as epicyclic excursions ( ’ librations ' ) around an underlying stable closed orbit . |
| 20 | At a meeting this May the Agricultural Ministers agreed that reform was necessary and gave each other a deadline of June 1993 to come up with concrete proposals . |
| 21 | The first choice keeper , David Harvey of Leeds United called off in what remains the most unlikely circumstances in the history of the game . |
| 22 | It rapidly became a conservative fiscal base — an unchanging standby for governments unable to come up with alternative ways of assessing a national wealth that was not only growing but was substantially changing in form . |
| 23 | He remains worried that margin benefits expected for the second half will now be pushed out to next year and has slashed his full-year forecast from £27 million to just £15 million , with £25 million pencilled in for 1993-94 . |
| 24 | I continued feeding with Liquifry 1 moving up to Liquifry 2 for the last feed . |
| 25 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 26 | What the detail in Appendix I boils down to is that , in general , seeing how total costs or APRs compare does not make most people change their minds . |
| 27 | In practice this boils down to the governments being saddled with the bulk of the foreign hard currency debts , while it is private individuals in those same countries who hold most of the hard-currency assets . |
| 28 | Mm , in other words why did , why did he continue in chapter eleven go on about there will be many in eastern parts will come and required at the table or in other words in the kingdom |
| 29 | In December 19231 went up to Somerville — was shown my room and looked at my timetable . |
| 30 | Mr Choyce adopted the technique from work first carried out by Georges Baikonn in France . |