Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family Groups consist of a network of small local groups mostly of mothers and young children , meeting regularly under the guidance of locally recruited group and play leaders . |
| 2 | Also I have read adverts where companies do scratchplates and bridges , necks etc. for Telecasters . |
| 3 | This week London audiences gave ET their verdicts on Of Mice And Men , adapted from John Steinbeck 's novel , and The Waterdance . |
| 4 | Eamonn Dalton , Chief City Engineer , ‘ said it could be argued that the Ovens claim was not based on objective evidence in that the samples said to have been taken at the dump had been handled , transmitted and analysed in all cases presumably by people with a particular interest in one aspect of the case . |
| 5 | Among the cities most in danger around the world are : * Bangkok , which faces a sea level rise of six feet by 2010 ; * Shanghai , also threatened by a six feet rise , coupled with the danger that salt water would advance 40 miles up the Yangtze River , causing severe drinking water shortages ; * Hong Kong , where seas may engulf newly-reclaimed coastal land , and an increased frequency of typhoons , due to climate disruption , threaten the whole territory ; * Alexandria — the whole city " may disappear " unless major defence works are undertaken ; * Tokyo , which will need £40 billion of flood defences in order to protect new suburbs ; * Rio de Janeiro , whose tourist beaches and nearby coastal villages are in danger ; * London , where there is concern that the existing Thames flood barrier may prove insufficient . |
| 6 | Through teaching he enjoys being able to pass his skills on to others and is confident that he will soon have his new pupils rocking and rolling , quickstepping and cha-cha-chaaing the night away . |
| 7 | In those early days Bain worked out that the 23 houses most under threat could have been rescued and restored for £240,000 . |
| 8 | He landed eventually at Stabiae ( near the present Castellammare ) , where things were still fairly tolerable , and there he encountered a friend of his , one Pomponianus , who was making frantic preparations to escape , loading his possessions on to ships and fretting for a favourable wind so that he could put to sea . |
| 9 | YOU CAN CONTACT THE EDITOR , , DURING OFFICE HOURS ON AT PEEL PARK . |
| 10 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 11 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 12 | People who dangle wires or ropes on to power lines to see what happens are playing with fire . ’ |
| 13 | She fried the chicken in some butter , put the vegetables on to boil , remembering the salt at the last minute , and was debating how to make a cheese sauce that bore some resemblance to those she had eaten in the past , when he walked in . |
| 14 | The only things he does n't like are the narrow ramps on to aeroplanes , so we have to get behind him with a broom . |
| 15 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 16 | A large plover , with yellow-brown upperparts , white axillaries and underwing , and in summer black cheeks , throat and underparts , bordered in northern breeding birds conspicuously with white . |
| 17 | Nuclear giants right over reprocessing contract |
| 18 | 1 Visit your dentist or hygienist regularly and clean your teeth properly after meals for maximum protection . |
| 19 | In formal terms the Luterell arms may be described as or a bend between six martlets sable — that is , a gold shield carrying a black diagonal band with , on each side of this , three birds rather like house martins . |
| 20 | Point one ; er , for access the field element is pre-booked , it 's only necessary to book additional days or shifts verbally in excess of that already reserved . |
| 21 | I sit on an authority they are very tiresome at times they make mistakes at times rather like Governments My Lords but at the end of the day that surely is what democracy is all about is n't it ? |
| 22 | When we were all off-duty of an evening , Rosemary and I would get ourselves done up in our civvies ( strictly forbidden ) , and with our greatcoats and hats on to fool the eagle eye of the duty NCO in the Waaf Picquet Post , totter down the drive to await the arrival of the boys in the car . |
| 23 | Her French visitors Jacques and Sophie keep their fur hats on in bed . |
| 24 | Invaluable if you are growing vegetables intensively in beds . |
| 25 | But generations on from Bill and Ben , things are neither bad nor — after a while — all that baffling . |
| 26 | Even the early Christians are said to have thrown coins on to Peter 's tomb for good fortune . ’ |
| 27 | These are the groups most at risk from developing secondary complications . |
| 28 | He spoke on a radio programme on which Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley defended AIDS spending cuts , saying the campaign should now be aimed at ‘ groups most at risk ’ rather than at the wider population . |
| 29 | ‘ But I think it is time to move on to target the groups most at risk , ’ she said . |
| 30 | We will start by giving this guarantee to those groups most in need , including the long-term unemployed and single parents . |