Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wars that were to end abruptly and , ironically , for reasons that had nothing to do with internal musical divisions . |
| 2 | The Course abandoned the use of triple and quadruple modules at the time of the 1984 CNAA resubmission for reasons that had to do both with inflexibility for student programmes and with the risk of student failure . |
| 3 | I wanted to go ashore , ’ she told him through teeth that clattered together unpleasantly . |
| 4 | We are inundated with rabbits , so we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top — the pigeons , caterpillars and slugs ate the lot . |
| 5 | The survey looked at which cities cater for cyclists and covered everything from parking facilities to potholes . |
| 6 | much fuller use can be made … of the machinery for joint consultation and negotiation between employers and employed … . |
| 7 | Mr Gordon accused GFP of being ‘ fundamentalists ’ about roads and said : ‘ It is a myth that other cities are spending nothing on roads . |
| 8 | He established collotype printing for illustrations and created the nucleus of a bindery . |
| 9 | Apparently , an old oak chest had been part of the family 's possessions for generations and bore an inscription inside the lid which said in effect , ‘ Whoever removes this chest from Appleby Hall , ill luck will befall them . ’ |
| 10 | He gripped the sides of the pulpit between fingers crooked as claws and leaned out so far over the congregation that he was in danger of falling out and landing on his head . |
| 11 | A man said he had breathed for ages and felt nothing . |
| 12 | I 'd had them sussed for ages and had been encouraging them to articulate their growing awareness of their lesbianism . |
| 13 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 14 | Just as camouflage is used by both sides in the contests between hunters and hunted , so is the technique of baiting . |
| 15 | Some social scientists did : most ignored the debate because it was , frankly , naive ( and often consisted of nothing more than special pleading from scientists working for institutions that had much to lose ) . |
| 16 | We found some people who are just mad about hats and discovered why they like their favourite headgear . |
| 17 | These ‘ other ’ for signs that signalled its ‘ innate physical , mental and moral inferiority ’ ( David Green ‘ On Foucault ’ in Ten 8 No 14 ) . |
| 18 | It encouraged monetary co-operation between nations and provided nations with financial assistance to meet current account deficits , i.e. imports in excess of exports . |
| 19 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 20 | He opened Tales for Innocents and read : |
| 21 | Raspberry vinegar makes a wonderful salad dressing but is also used extensively in nouvelle cuisine for sauces and trickled over soft fruits ( sometimes with a little black pepper ) . |
| 22 | The decree of 1616 did attempt to discriminate between books that aimed to reconcile the earth 's motion with Scripture and those that remained within the confines of astronomical hypothesis . |
| 23 | Non-propagating contractions were defined as contractions that did not propagate at least 15 cm between the recording ports . |
| 24 | An interference effect was indeed apparent at the start of the final stage ( Fig. 4.7 ) and did not differ in magnitude between subjects that had received their aversive training in the same context as that used for the test and subjects that had received aversive training in a different context . |
| 25 | My lovely Gerald was very , very clever he was a mechanic , he was a graduate mechanical engineer and he knew everything about cars that needed to be known . |
| 26 | It was followed by the educational ‘ comic ’ , Orbit ( published by the Commission for Technical Education and Vocational Training ) , which was sold through schools and came out three times a term . |
| 27 | The waves repaired the lorry is between waves and repaired : it can not be resolved by changing lorry , but can be resolved by replacing either wave s or repaired : |
| 28 | Dust is drawn in through vents and collected in filters . |
| 29 | No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose . |
| 30 | I 've noted there that , that if you were to bid for funds that had tapering attaching to them , and therefore you would be picking up increased costs in ninety five , six , and ninety six , seven , that they would n't exceed the figure shown at the bottom of the page . |