Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was still meditating for hours and waiting for the voice of the flat to inform her of its favoured colour scheme . |
| 2 | The secretory effect of cholera toxin in our study probably continued for hours as evidenced by the stool output after the experiment . |
| 3 | I had nightmares about scrums and tackles from a very early age and refused to play as a linesman , in case I got involved in violence . |
| 4 | as in Tarrow and Suleiman. that in so far as group interests are expressed or mobilised through institutions that survive in the long term . |
| 5 | ‘ I pay enough tax on my first job ’ , Mike said , and did n't accept the connection between taxes and help for the unemployed . |
| 6 | POLICE should abandon ‘ fashionable management theories ’ which blur traditional relationships between ranks and return to the hierarchical principles of leadership , a senior officer said yesterday . |
| 7 | but he has more of a chance to use the resources he gains for goals that correspond to the policy values of his party . |
| 8 | Sunk in biology , she thought , listening for creaks or moans above the ceiling , listening to the soft stirring in her belly , licking her fingers . |
| 9 | They queued patiently for lifts and ascended through a " Titanic cobweb " to find a choice of Parisian , Alsatian , Russian and Anglo-American restaurants on the first level and a bird's-eye view of the Seine sparkling beneath . |
| 10 | How often have you been lost for words when engaged in the ‘ what sort of strings do you use ’ type of conversation with a newly acquired guitar playing chum you 're eager to impress ? |
| 11 | Stephen broke the silence after minutes that felt like an hour . |
| 12 | Many volunteers acted as models or helped behind the scenes with refreshments and raffle tickets . |
| 13 | Remember that demand , leading to overload and pressure , is a function of the disparity between duties and wishes on the one hand and limitations on the other . |
| 14 | The plaintiff will be the tenant and the landlord the defendant , but if head lessors or mortgagees are likely to be affected they should be added as defendants and served by the lessee , or else notice should be given to them that they may apply to be joined if desired . |
| 15 | It is to Alan Rough 's eternal credit that he developed a sense of humour which carried him through experiences that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 16 | MCD spectra provide information about the degeneracy of states and help with the assignment of electronic spectra . |
| 17 | But Harrison sees the recent rise in awareness of values as following from the realisation that they are the key to a good , effective school , with strong exam results and happy children . |
| 18 | According to a report in the Montreal Gazette the statues had been ‘ tampered with ’ in this way on several occasions , and the newspaper felt that they should be raised beyond the reach of pranksters or removed to an inside guarded site . |
| 19 | The cube dependence is not a precise match with the 3.4 exponent obtained from viscosity measurements of long chains , but it is acceptable , particularly as the model gives a satisfactory picture of how a polymer chain can overcome the restraining influence of entanglements and move within the matrix . |
| 20 | It came in mid-morning , and brought them all slipping through the branches and the coarse grass to lie hidden on either side the narrowing of the path with their bows strung and their shafts fitted , listening for the soft thudding of hooves that came as a reverberation along the ground rather than a sound . |
| 21 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 22 | As with the data manipulation unit , these units are able to carry out any one of an appropriate set of operations when signalled by the control unit ; for example , to read a digit punched on paper tape and store it in a specified store location or to retrieve a digit from a specified store location and print it on an electric typewriter . |
| 23 | The data manipulation unit is capable of performing any of a fixed set of operations as signalled by the control unit . |
| 24 | In essence , it proposes the introduction of a system of checks and balances into the boardrooms of UK listed companies , to be administered by non-executive directors according to a prescribed code of best practice and to be given force by public disclosure of compliance . |
| 25 | These votes came after a long and stormy debate ; some deputies warned of the dangers of dictatorship because the proposed new presidency lacked an adequate system of checks and balances by the legislature , and argued that a switch to presidential rule was premature . |
| 26 | The two main candidates had been Khasbulatov , nominated by the Democratic Russia group , and Sergei Baburin , nominated by the centrist Rossiya group of deputies and supported by the Communists of Russia group . |
| 27 | The chimpanzee scanned a tray of objects and went to a keyboard out of view of the tray and pressed a symbol corresponding to one of the objects . |
| 28 | Children have to learn that it is easier to start at one end of a line of objects and finish at the other . |
| 29 | All that 's changed is the way the formula 's been applied , and the number of calls that counts towards the formula . |
| 30 | Sir James Reckitt did some amateur excavating when he lived at the manor and some stones , which could have formed church windows , can still be seen in the gardens of houses since built on the site . |