Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE little boy next door said to his father : ‘ Dad , I do n't want a bike for Christmas anymore . ’ |
| 2 | The Supreme Court is expected to weaken further the nationwide constitutional protection for abortion early next year . |
| 3 | In addition to that , John Prescott was mentioned , and John could not attend the meetings that he does around the country if he did not have the facility to be able to be away from Parliament during times when erm , there are votes that need to be taken . |
| 4 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 5 | Now , after almost fifty years we look back and the rich variety of our doings in the years between fulfills the concept of university as a preparation for life rather than training for a specific walk of life . |
| 6 | A skilful negotiator will attempt to trade concession for concession so that ultimately an agreement which satisfies both parties is reached . |
| 7 | and knit a jumper for Michael an'all , when Michael 's in she knits him a jumper , the jumper |
| 8 | He was at the Cotswold Wild Life Park to lend his expertise for Kids Out — an annual fun day for children with special needs . |
| 9 | It looked as if the Saunders-Atkinson partnership had done the trick for Villa again in the 77th minute . |
| 10 | One of these has already been put forward , by the CNAA early in 1982 , termed Model C. In its response to the July 1981 Green Paper , the CNAA is critical both of Model A and Model B , regarding Model A as inadequate and lacking credibility both on academic and other grounds , and Model B as too exclusive in that it creates a division between institutions substantially involved in the provision of public sector higher education and those only marginally so . |
| 11 | There tends to be more division between workers where the strike may be defined as ‘ illegal ’ ; employers are likewise more apt to continue production and employ strikebreakers ; and trade unions are more likely to elicit more public condemnation and encounter ‘ more vigorous state repression ’ when they deliberately flout the law ( ibid.:1125 ) . |
| 12 | Er it gives us when when we actually set the thing up and make the presentation , it gives us another opportunity for publicity not only in the local papers o of our own area but the local papers of wherever the school was . |
| 13 | It would be an opportunity for reflection specifically for people coming with a background of development experience and practice . |
| 14 | CAMI agrees that direct marketing is an opportunity for effects as creative as anything that television can do ; his company recently produced a brochure for a property development called The Fountains which featured a front cover made of plastic , filled with water and a handful of coins . |
| 15 | Once there , you would work on community , and scientific land and water-based projects — with lots of opportunity for adventure in between times . |
| 16 | The Home Ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere ( Hope ) programme was set to be expanded , but overall the proposed expenditure on " choice " was to be an estimated $16,000 million in fiscal 1992 , approximately $3,700 million less than in the current fiscal year . |
| 17 | provide opportunity for catharsis ie. the release of hostile feelings etc that have been , or may be , repressed otherwise . |
| 18 | The atmosphere tends to be less formal and there is greater opportunity for integration both between staff and students and between the students themselves . |
| 19 | One of the principal reasons for this was considered to be the existence of the defence for men under 24 . |
| 20 | But critics call it a faceless environment … a paradise for cars not people . |
| 21 | Runnymead Council said : ‘ You need permission for fences over 6ft 6ins . |
| 22 | Erm I would hesitate before offering the chairman or the committee the contract , er the contract for Eurofighter actually runs to thirty four books and it stands about that high and er . |
| 23 | Mortensen was the captain of a Norwegian trawler charged with illegal trawl fishing in waters within the Moray Firth contrary to a bye-law made by the Fishery Board for Scotland under s. 7 of the Herring Fishery ( Scotland ) Act 1889 . |
| 24 | I have n't used the word poverty I 've used a phrase about lack of financial resources because it relates more obviously and directly to many of the concerns of the Board for example almost certainly the real reason why there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem is that the income of a village carpenter did n't go near the exorbitant prices being charged by mine host when , to use the good Scots phrase , the cow calved and there was this boom over the crows for the census . |
| 25 | But what we argue is that all should have the right to put their case for asylum fairly and properly , and reasonably quickly . ’ |
| 26 | We have had debates on the entrenchment of rights ; on federalism or regional devolution as against the unitary state ; on the case for consensus rather than majority as a basis for government , on the relative weight of national versus local mandates and the independence of local government , on the duty of civil servants ; on electoral reform with all its implications for the operations of government ; on who should define the national interest ; on open government and official secrecy ; on complementing representative democracy by referenda and other forms of participation — and much else . |
| 27 | The selectors have long refused to hear a strident case for Carlisle Best , and locals were also miffed that Desmond Haynes was overlooked for the West Indies captaincy . |
| 28 | Moreover , the fact that characters may be successfully interpreted by means of these linguistic approaches presents a strong case for characterisation once again being regarded as a legitimate object of the critic 's attention . |
| 29 | Provision for synthesis often leads to long notation , for two reasons . |
| 30 | Any question of providing long-term support for children in the family of a man who is not their father should be considered in the wider context of financial provision for families generally . |