Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a new wall in that particular place spelt trouble for my carefully nurtured hypothesis . |
| 2 | ‘ Polly an' me think it 's best fer yer ter go ter yer own 'ouse now it 's ready , ’ he told her firmly . |
| 3 | When the war broke out , Anna was commissioned into the Army , where she did her service for her newly adopted country . |
| 4 | RTS trainees from Eastern area practise their team building and raft building skills during their Outward Bound course at Llanberis in North Wales |
| 5 | Garrick Investments Ltd ( ‘ Garrick ’ ) holds its interest through its wholly owned subsidiaries , Tygon Investments Ltd and Jaguar Investments Ltd . |
| 6 | The disposal of the group 's interest in Tanaka Matthey KK does not constitute the discontinuation of a business under FRS3 since the group is continuing operations in Japan through its wholly owned subsidiary , Johnson Matthey Japan Limited . |
| 7 | ‘ The Republic can only pursue legal action through its duly appointed executive , namely the interim government which instructs me . |
| 8 | It went this conference believes , that the role of trade union councils at local level , whose value is clearly acknowledged , must be strengthened by being given the right to express a view through its democratically elected delegates at annual conference within the framework of the T U C. |
| 9 | Moreover , through their well directed efforts , that vast resource of past literature and scriptures , every item of which is capable of innumerable interpretations , could be saved from that ultimate oblivion and loss to humanity which could result from its sheer overwhelming quantity and complexity . |
| 10 | In all these publications , Sony — through their recently formed Sony Electronic Publishing Company — control technical specification of the products , their packaging and distribution . |
| 11 | Outside the central parsec , stars ( other than supernovae ) primarily influence nuclear activity through their collectively generated , barred gravitational potential . |
| 12 | The Russian delegation objected that the new approach was more appropriate for developing countries , and called for its newly established Agency for International Co-operation and Development to share authority with the World Bank in co-ordinating aid for Russia . |
| 13 | Gloucester 's redevelopment of the pavilion and other amenities at Bristol , due to be completed for the resumption of cricket in mid-June , secures the club 's relationship with the owners of the ground , the Sun Alliance Insurance Company , which will have its own facilities for its locally based staff on the new premises . |
| 14 | It was striking for its insistence on the role of the Holy Spirit , but equally remarkable for its firmly identifying the Roman Catholic Church with the body of Christ . |
| 15 | Although stateside gossip recently had it that Hitachi Ltd would soon be ready with Unix on its mainframes ( UX No 384 ) , latest rumours suggest that BASF 's Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH — a European OEM for Hitachi Data Systems ' IBM-compatible mainframes — is tired of waiting , and may be close to signing a deal with IBM for its already proven AIX/ESA 2.1 mainframe version of Unix , which is an implementation of OSF/1 . |
| 16 | Under Thompson 's direction , Goldsmiths ' has developed an international reputation for its conceptually orientated graduates . |
| 17 | Some interesting pink Champagnes are made in this village which was once known for its long lived red wines . |
| 18 | Tolonen also said Novell has high hopes for its recently launched NetWare 4.0 project . |
| 19 | It sprawled across space , metal tendrils splayed randomly about its asymmetrically bulging central mass . |
| 20 | A possibility originally considered by Lubow and Moore ( 1959 ) as an explanation for their newly discovered latent inhibition effect was that during pre-exposure the subject might come to perform some response to the stimulus that interfered with the response monitored during conditioning . |
| 21 | Rank wanted to be sure of an international market for their newly acquired product . |
| 22 | HOSPICE staff are still appealing for furniture for their newly opened office at Harewood House , Harewood Hill , Darlington . |
| 23 | The Basque Coast starts off flat , at the top end , with sand and pine trees , then acquires first , shapely beaches prized by athletic visitors for their peculiarly surf able Atlantic waves , and next , low but spectacular rocks and promontories , which are at their best along the curious Corniche Basque , to end in the handsome bay of Hendaye-Plage . |
| 24 | The Pallants are known for their beautifully designed clothes which combine elegance and simplicity . |
| 25 | Grimshaw argues that feminists ' appeal to this humanistic conception of the self as a unitary , atomistic , conscious and rational core is quite inadequate to conceptualise experiences such as self-deception or obsessional delusions , or the contradictions which feminists have described between their rationally held views and political convictions on the one hand , and their emotions and desires on the other . |
| 26 | I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste . |
| 27 | It was as though the very innermost lining of my already emptied stomach was violently detaching itself into long , coppery green strands of rejected bile . |
| 28 | The village of Gospel Green , home of one of my locally made cheeses ( see pp93–5 ) , was visited by cocoa-drinking Temperance missionaries , although few of the generation who received instruction are still alive . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm conscious of my over-perfectly groomed image which some find off-putting , ’ she says . |
| 30 | The ambulance doors closed out the white face of my recently acquired 17-year-old husband . |