Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In which case the non-verbal concomitants of the various utterances are improvised as if for the first time , and in the best of all possible productions an unforeseeable Lear , Macbeth or Rosalind emerges in performance , and the speeches come across expressing meanings which would have been hard to foresee from reading the bare text . |
| 2 | Iain Banks is a thoroughly Scottish writer , and The Crow Road has already been identified as his ‘ crisis ’ novel : a notable softening of the baroque violence and elaboration of the earlier books and the sideline science fiction ( where Banks hides under the minimal false moustache and wig of a middle initial ) . |
| 3 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 4 | ‘ I want nothing left here that David Bellamy would n't approve of , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke ordered as the wind whisked her flounces up to display her silk Marks & Spencer camiknicks with elasticated waist and cotton-lined double gusset . |
| 5 | Even Marks & Spencer stands in awe . |
| 6 | It belongs to a journalist absent in Eastern Europe , and is really just a large closet with a marble fireplace and a tiny bedroom and a bathroom where Candice sits across the bidet unembarrassed , much as she sits across his body . |
| 7 | Many of them go to north Africa , where Slorne comes from . |
| 8 | It is only in this particular section , where Reger resorts to the use of low tremolandi on a pedal point , that the orchestral provenance of the music is in any evidence . |
| 9 | The epigraph is Veteris vestigia flammae from Aeneid 4 , 23 , where Dido confesses to her confidante that the love she once felt for her now dead husband is about to renew itself for Aeneas . |
| 10 | Elkin , in his compelling book Aboriginal Men of High Degree , cites the ritual procedures which a potential medicine man or Karadji undergoes in awakening his latent paranormal powers : |
| 11 | These can be any species but Cabomba or Myriophyllum seems to be preferred because of the small leaf structure . |
| 12 | Whilst the ambiguity and allusiveness of late 19th century sculpture was firmly rooted in the representation of the human figure the ( point of contact between the two exhibitions ) which acted as a metaphor for emotion , that of Chadwick or Wilding goes beyond that so that the human body is alluded to indirectly , as a train of associations rather than direct mimetic referent . |
| 13 | ADAM & EVE draws on a database of 3000 sentences to allow you to create exercises that will give your students experience and practice with these different meanings . |
| 14 | The basic functionality of Adam & Eve consists of : |
| 15 | This notable motif occurs in a very similar form in another pavement from the New Market Hall site , Gloucester ( Neal 1981 , no. 52 ) , where Bacchus sits on a leopard amid an arrangement of interlaced squares and half-saltires . |
| 16 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 17 | For most , however , the road from Andean mining towns like Potosi or Llallagua runs to the informal economy — as street traders in the cities or the coca farms and drug factories of Chapare . |
| 18 | In addition to the known central features at the systemic velocity of the galaxy ( corresponding to the velocity of its centre ) , there are strong redshifted features with intensities of about one-half or one-third of the main features at ( where LSR stands for local standard of rest ) and weak blueshifted features with intensities of about one-tenth at — 300 to -460kms -1 . |
| 19 | Measuring 60″ by 48″ , it comes in indigo , rose or Wedgwood checks on cream . |
| 20 | Oersted Institute in Copenhagen found superconductivity in ( TMTSF ) 2 PF 6 , where TMTSF stands for tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 104 ) . |
| 21 | It is set in the Lime Street parlour , where Coleridge sits by the ‘ low-burnt ’ parlour fire , and Hartley , his ‘ cradled infant ’ , sleeps beside him . |
| 22 | Many commands require the Ctrl , Shift , or Alt keys to be held down while another key is tapped . |
| 23 | In their first scene together , where Fluellen begins with a feeling of respect for Pistol 's bravery at the bridge ( how obtained we know not ) , they dispute about the iconography of the goddess Fortune , Pistol in verse , Fluellen in prose , more coherently ( III.vi.20–60 ) . |
| 24 | The lawn to the south of the house , shown on a plan by Bourginion , the French surveyor employed to redesign the garden , corresponds almost exactly with the description given in the second edition ( 1733 ) of the Dictionary , where Miller insists on frequent mowing and rolling to keep the grass in good order . |
| 25 | A dream citadel where Billy escapes from his day-mare realities . |
| 26 | Where Britain stands in this bullish picture is less encouraging . |
| 27 | Thus where Conrad talks of " a clump of trees " , separating the shape from the substance , Lawrence simply talks of " coppices " and " spinneys " ; where Conrad refers to a " tribe of fishermen " , Lawrence is content to refer to " miners " . |
| 28 | It is true that he gave one daughter , Eadburh , in marriage to Beorhtric , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a. 787 ) , and another , Aelfflaed , to Aethelred , king of Northumbria , in 792 , but the revival of a Northumbrian coinage at this time by Aethelred ( see above , p. 158 ) and the inauguration of a new West Saxon coinage by Beorhtric at Winchester or Southampton testifies to their continuing independence . |
| 29 | It 's also home to BCM , one of Europe 's biggest clubs , where Toni presides as manager and king of Majorcan clubland . |
| 30 | In other cases , treatment with non-ionic detergents , phosphatase or DTT interferes with the interaction of DNA binding proteins with their cognate modulating factors . |