Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An opportunity for escape occurred shortly afterwards when she and Wordsworth set off on a walking tour into the Wye Valley . |
| 2 | The Don has always been kind to me and my opportunity for revenge came sooner , rather than later . |
| 3 | The significance of all this is that Utah had already convinced themselves that test-tube fusion could be an economic bonanza of unimaginable magnitude , and the first shots in the skirmish for priority had already been fired in February with the accusations that Jones had pirated the Utah chemists ' work . |
| 4 | But here again one could argue that things go hand-in-hand : subjects perceived that an increase in a was equivalent to a decrease in k , and having argued the case for σ , the case for k followed automatically . |
| 5 | Although many politicians have not been prepared to accept the thorough-going case for pricing advanced above , many have , under the practical pressure of public spending constraints , been prepared to accept charging as a supplementary way of raising revenue , or to see charges increased as the only way of preserving a service . |
| 6 | It is likely too that the provision for value had originally been framed in relation to purchase for value , for otherwise there is no good reason why Ulpian should be concerned with fitting other legal relationships into the same pattern as sale . |
| 7 | It is a credit to Social Services officers that many of the new policies for children had already been adopted , and you can be proud of the work being done in this area . |
| 8 | Plans for Trident continued apace . |
| 9 | From the other flank , Michael Foot thought plans for reform gave too great a power of patronage to the prime minister and mocked the very idea of a representative democracy . |
| 10 | The plans for devolution put forward by the other parties would have a grave impact not just on Scotland and Wales , but also on England . |
| 11 | Featuring guest rapper Rakim , ‘ Contribution ’ itself is a plea for unity echoed later in ‘ Take Me Away ’ ( a bright song with a sad lyric ) and ‘ Who Can We Blame ’ . |
| 12 | Featuring guest rapper Rakim , ‘ Contribution ’ itself is a plea for unity echoed later in ‘ Take Me Away ’ ( a bright song with a sad lyric ) and ‘ Who Can We Blame ’ . |
| 13 | Since 1952 his illustrations for plays had regularly appeared in the Radio Times where , as Rigby Graham has argued , Minton 's knowledge of costume , his sense of period and locale , made him invaluable . |
| 14 | When the Party conference began at Brighton in October 1935 , opinion in the Party had hardened against Lansbury and Cripps.Lansbury 's support for pacifism received only 102,000 votes and he resigned from the parliamentary leadership . |
| 15 | Within weeks of its return to power the duplicity of the National Government 's support for sanctions became embarrassingly obvious . |
| 16 | Opinion poll ratings which had indicated persistently poor support for Labour had most recently shown 63 per cent support for the opposition National Party and only 28 per cent for the government , and widespread dissatisfaction with Palmer 's leadership . |
| 17 | The normal pattern for the distribution of funding is a form of the Normal Distribution Curve , with the bulk of funding going to middle-of-the-road research carried out in Departments which are already pre-eminent , as can be seen from the figures for NERC support for geology quoted earlier . |
| 18 | We can only imagine that the long hours between distractions dragged interminably . |
| 19 | ( i ) An applicant will have to have attended at least one major conference on medical negligence and one medical course for lawyers devoted specifically to enhancing the lawyers ' understanding of medicine generally in the three years prior to the application . |
| 20 | ( as if to attest to their virtual invisibility , homosexual acts between women had never even been covered by the law that was being repealed . ) |
| 21 | Just as organizations develop a set of rules for documents that are delivered through the postal service they will develop rules for documents delivered electronically ’ ( Truller 1993 ) . |
| 22 | Yet the warning signs for England flashed brightly during victories over Divisional champions the Midlands , an England B team containing nine internationals and the North on Tuesday night . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , ’ she added , with a quick look round as if she thought to check whether anyone might hear , ‘ Sir John 's partiality for Benedict extended also to his mother . ’ |
| 24 | Rehearsals for Hamlet started tomorrow , followed by a six-week tour of the provinces , and now Beryl was talking about another show ! |
| 25 | Skates went on to score three more after the interval , all from open play , with Gary Brown contributing two and Dominic Maguire converting a penalty stroke as Brooklands romped home 8-1 . |
| 26 | And why has the determined search for alternatives proved so fruitless ? |
| 27 | At Grand Central , New York , the Vanderbilt search for opulence had even outrun the French Empire style of the first Grand Central with its great conventional train-shed behind . |
| 28 | After their return to Salzburg , Wolfgang 's aptitude for music developed daily . |
| 29 | In a more serious vein , the attribution to me of the statement that Super-SARA was a tremendous hindrance to negotiations for a LOFT consortium was a surprise to me and , I submit , to anyone who knew that the funds for Super-SARA had already been set aside . |
| 30 | Since the final stretch through Oxfordshire opened nearly three years ago motoring organisations and the police have been campaigning for service areas to be built so that drivers can take a break . |