Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | The Down 's syndrome register should consider classifying reasons for referral more precisely . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The prayer for relief so far as the third defendant is concerned , seeks damages for conspiracy to defraud ; exemplary damages ; an indemnity in respect of any liabilities to B.M.T. under what is described as ‘ the said deed , ’ which presumably means the legal charge or other instrument containing the personal guarantee given by the plaintiffs ; damages for deceit ; and interest . |
| 6 | John was still only sixteen years old soft is probable that the real initiative for the invasion came from the unscrupulous Geoffrey , now apparently restored to his duchy ; Richard and Geoffrey had been formally reconciled in the summer of 1183 but the memory of the struggle for Limoges obviously still rankled . |
| 7 | Sorley is certainly remarkable for rejecting the prevailing enthusiasm for war so early on , and for forecasting , through a mixture of irony and pity , the horrors of Flanders before ever he reached the front . |
| 8 | The use of questionnaires fed back to teachers revealed the base of interest and enthusiasm for science too often missed by schools concerned to promote a curriculum informally based on male interests . |
| 9 | PAUL GASCOIGNE lasted only 45 minutes of his league debut for Lazio here yesterday — but he insisted that he has survived his first crunching tackle in Italian football . |
| 10 | He was also one prime source of the notion that has counted for so much among those with misgivings about democracy ever since : that of the tyranny of the majority . |
| 11 | There is not a case , however , for spreading central funding between universities more evenly ; rather it is for judging all UK universities more broadly on the excellence of both their science and their technology bases . |
| 12 | It was dangerous on the roads for bairns as usually the horses with running with the carts . |
| 13 | Therefore eqn ( 9.22 ) holds , and because P NR increases more rapidly with density than P G it is evident that at large enough density the pressures would reach equilibrium ; the star would then stop shrinking . |
| 14 | In addition the government intended to strengthen and toughen measures to deal with new immigration by trebling the annual budget of the Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides ( OFPRA ) and of the appeals commission , in order to process requests for asylum much more quickly and to deal effectively with those rejected . |
| 15 | The death of Gay News provoked a considerable growth in out-of-London calls for information no longer available in that magazine 's supplement , while at the same time making it far more difficult for us to obtain the information the callers needed and throwing an internal emphasis on that side of our work . |
| 16 | THE sister of fire death girl Natalie Godfrey lost her fight for life early yesterday . |
| 17 | ‘ George Foreman is the big fight for Lennox right now and the second defence could be against American Tommy Morrison — and perhaps the third against Frank Bruno in 1994 . ’ |
| 18 | Furthermore , body measurements at birth are only proxies for variables more closely related to the processes that underlie programming . |
| 19 | If so , estimate how long this will take , call the candidates for interview that much earlier than you would otherwise have done , and let them know in the letter that they are to be given a tour first . |
| 20 | Mail for villages as far afield as Langtoft and Boynton came by post train from Hull , was dropped at Lowthorpe station at 7 am and then brought by horse and cart to the post office at Lowthorpe . |
| 21 | Losing tended to lead to a disintegration of the group , and the search for scapegoats both within and outside the group ; tasks needs became even more important to the loser ; losing , however , forced groups to re-evaluate their view of themselves and eventually come to a more realistic assessment of what changes were required to make the group effective . |
| 22 | The great composer Bach for example hardly ever left his native Germany . |
| 23 | In the light of this amended agreement , the British LTA might have been forgiven for thinking that it had pre-empted any legal action over its former agreement , which it had sent to Brussels for consideration as long ago as September 1990 . |
| 24 | The youthful Rundell appears to have shown his aptitude for business so rapidly that within three or four years Pickett , admittedly increasingly preoccupied by aldermanic affairs on his way to becoming lord mayor in 1789 , made him a partner . |
| 25 | He recently vexed rumour-mongers , who bet on a bid for Midland sooner rather than later , by declining to disclose Hongkong Bank 's inner reserves when the bank reported its 1989 results on March 13th . |
| 26 | It struck Nutty that he had no time to take cars for joy-rides any longer , content to flake out in the thick straw in a corner of Firelight 's box after evenings of running and riding and swimming . |
| 27 | It may finance demands for exports either directly or indirectly . |
| 28 | Gold was certainly used as a decorative inlay for bronzes as early as Shang times , but precious metals only began to be highly valued in China comparatively late and then as an outcome of influence from inner Asia and the west . |
| 29 | At the same time , new vocational qualifications and grants to encourage schools to develop high-quality technology courses will mean wider opportunities for pupils less academically inclined . |
| 30 | If your document is short you will not be able to stop it being printed unless you tap Esc for Escape very quickly |