Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former King Rat now spends his days raising funds for kids all over the world . |
| 2 | I was allowed to disrupt a ‘ social skills ’ course — one of a number of educational opportunities for men apart from the usual classes — and took the opportunity to test out some of my impressions against their own , well-informed ones in a session that , in the end , lasted twice as long as its scheduled time . |
| 3 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |
| 4 | This was the first departmental review under new procedure agreed with Heads of Departments earlier in the year . |
| 5 | Somehow he had missed the announcement that Tubby was in command of one of the Dublin Black and Tan units — he had enough to do maintaining the morale and the strictly military role of his own division in Cork without spending time scanning the lists of appointments elsewhere in the country . |
| 6 | He enjoyed good relationships with adults especially on a one-to-one basis . |
| 7 | Due to the obsession of most comparative sociologists with problems of measurement , all sight of a global system was lost in the mists of dubious generalization about a host of discrete variables from societies all over the world . |
| 8 | This account of the formation of nation states in Western Europe , and of the development of the sense of nationality as a fundamental social bond , is far more comprehensive and thorough than the rather abstract and historically restricted theories which purport to explain modern nationalism and the emergence of new nations in terms either of a reorientation of European thought , or of some general process of industrialization . |
| 9 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand , it is continuously generated in a flowing system — gas or liquid travelling at a uniform rate down a tube — its subsequent decay establishes steady-state concentrations at points down-stream from the region of generation . |
| 11 | The National Gallery , Washington , already owns two smaller views of the ‘ The Castle of Nymphenburg ’ and ‘ A view of Munich ’ , donated by the Kress Foundation in 1961 , but these are less ‘ important ’ , being replicas of originals now in the Residenzmuseum , Munich . |
| 12 | The way to secure future prosperity is by embracing change not resisting it and as my honourable friend er indicates , by using our skills to best effect and competitively in a global market place were we to embrace the policies of members opposite in the European community we would shut the job , the door to the jobs which will come from that inward investment because we have opted out of the social chapter we do indeed have the opportunity that comes from being , if I may qui may quote er President Delors a pa a paradise for inward investment . |
| 13 | It predicts that , despite tougher standards for new cars , the problem is likely to increase for some years to come , largely as a result of a lack of any controls over the emissions of vehicles already on the road . |
| 14 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |
| 15 | However , as Lim and Foo ( 1987 ) argue , it is difficult to generalize on the impact of TNC employment on different groups of women even within the same society . |
| 16 | I mean I think there are groups of women all over the country very interested in feminism and doing lots of good work and providing support for women who do want some sort of change , and so if that 's what you mean by the women 's liberation movement I think it 's a very good thing . |
| 17 | Sandwich pairs of biscuits together with the cream and serve at once . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , so far as policy and plan formulation is concerned , recent practice indicates a willingness to reflect both local wishes and concerns for policies elsewhere in the city . |
| 19 | Erm what is now being proposed is a somewhat less regimented plan than we had before , if you remember there were lines of trees before in a very grid-like pattern across the marketplace . |
| 20 | There were the creators of supermen roughly in the Holmes mould and generally attempting to excel him , like the American Jacques Futrelle with his hero Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen , the Thinking Machine , or , in a slightly different mould , G.K. Chesterton with his spiritual , though humble , superman , Father Brown , a genuine Great Detective . |
| 21 | Second , changes in genes can alter the responses of cells locally to the inducing chemical : different genes could be switched on by the same stimulus . |
| 22 | Variations from the regular cost are spread over the expected remaining service lives of employees currently in the scheme . |
| 23 | Our future lies in further developing the appeal of our outstanding portfolio of brands with consumers all over the world . |
| 24 | His mother Nellie , stuffing Liberal tracts into envelopes long into the night , was his induction into radicalism , so often at odds with his Hampshire traditionalism : ‘ The bastards are closing the Watercress Line forever … ‘ |
| 25 | Heads can create their own clarity if they organize their time in such a way as to digest and weigh reports , views and experiences from sources either outside the school or inside the staffroom . |
| 26 | Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’ |
| 27 | I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor . |
| 28 | Apparently they had road blocks and patrols on roads all over the area , and they searched the grounds of the house . |
| 29 | However it seems that the slowest time constant represents only a subset of the GC sites since we observe dissociation from some GC sites at rates closer to the faster species . |
| 30 | In this study a 400-element array was used to represent a rectangular plate in plane strain , loaded only at its four corners by forces parallel to the longer dimension of the plate . |