Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 With so low a response rate , two questions arose concerning the representativeness of the data : whether any particular subgroup of teachers , for example , deputy heads , heads of departments , assistant teachers , were over-represented ; and whether the non-respondents as a subgroup held views about SSE which systematically differed from those of the respondents .
2 He pointed out the sloping white stripes on the walls , whose incline indicated the nearest of the niches providing protection for plate-layers who otherwise might end up under the wheels of one of the expresses which thundered over these rails , bound for famous foreign cities .
3 While France stands shoulder to shoulder with Germany , and the two countries together account for half the EC output , the exchange rate mechanism will survive , representing a beacon of hope for federalists who still see a common currency as the bridge across which Europe must pass to a federal future , and a baleful threat for the sovereign Britishers , who see it as a black hole which could draw EC members inexorably into the same destiny .
4 Berowne almost seems to revel in his own discomfiture here , in his desperate last stand for freedom -he clearly enjoys the sensation of falling in love , even though he presents the experience as a disaster !
5 Not only the statesmen of the age but also public opinion , partly sheltered from the realities of war by the employment of mainly professional armies , were untouched by the enthusiasm for peace which usually prompted such schemes and indifferent to the dreams which they embodied .
6 The CNAA uses the category of pass degree both for courses which do not aim to achieve honours standard , and as a probationary validation category for courses which eventually acquire honours status ; it should be noted that staffing and other learning resources are significant factors in such validation .
7 But setting her misgivings about Tommaso himself aside , Caterina decided that she had been quite wrong to think that it was she who had caught his attention .
8 The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all .
9 Ski better : each winter Judith and Colin McCubbin , BASI instructors based near Bath , head for Davos where they run clinics for people who soon become their friends .
10 Eight hours after admission he suddenly deteriorated , with severe respiratory distress and increasing left chest signs .
11 ‘ You can take your mind off things yourself really , if you want to .
12 So all in all an excellent result for Washroom which now looks to be a good stable portfolio increasing at a respectable rate .
13 Wassall made a £113.2m hostile bid for Evode which then entered into discussions with Laporte about a recommended bid of above £1 a share .
14 In such ways , Hitler set the vicious tone for discrimination and persecution , providing the touchstone and legitimation for initiatives which largely came from others at various levels of the Party , the State bureaucracy , and not least the SS-SD-Gestapo complex , where the ‘ Jewish Question ’ had a key functional role .
15 It was a turbulent time for college principals , and many were unable to cope with the urgent demands for change which constantly assailed them — not least from their own undergraduates .
16 She went on to her worries about Jeetinder who still was n't bringing anything home from school .
17 Independent companies are often the setting for bands who already have an idea of the sort of music they want to make , and where they want to end up .
18 This was used to infer values of the Census variables for households which never returned a form .
19 After sixteen years of fishing for zander I still find it a magical absorbing pastime .
20 This is another of Emma Johnson 's recordings for ASV which consistently conveys her own joy in the music .
21 But it does make one very depressed er that people can vandalise and er infiltrate er a sacred place and take all sorts of things which quite honestly are not of a great deal of value to anybody else .
22 Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association .
23 His skin secretes a great deal of mucus which both keeps the young attached and prevents them from drying out .
24 However , in the 1980s , government 's repeated sudden and confused demands for economy created a great deal of uncertainty which actually led many authorities to abandon what planning systems they had created .
25 Thus , in a thoroughly typical way , man , who is not endowed with an instinctive love of animals or care for them , achieves the ability to make a success of animal-husbandry as a form of economic life by channelling his otherwise rampant aggressiveness back against himself as a force of conscience which frequently expresses itself in pastoral cultures as a vengeful and recriminating god of the sky .
26 At the foot of the steps they greeted him ; each in his turn bowing before Tsu Ma ; each bending to kiss the ring of power he now wore ; each embracing him warmly before repeating the same eight words .
27 Cations of elements which only form one stable ion are given the same name as the element .
28 The form which NICRA took , therefore , was determined by the coalition of forces which actually came together to create it , of which the republicans were only one element .
29 Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth .
30 For the regulationists history , to use a delightful phrase of Aglietta 's , is ‘ innovatory ’ : there is no cyclical repetition but a succession of phases which only emerge and come to an end as a resuIt of their own characteristics and particular historical circumstances .
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