Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it said it was confident of surviving and would seek shareholders ' approval at a meeting on 29 April . |
| 2 | In this way he can re-experience the feeling of succeeding and may accept that he is capable of that feeling and of having achieved something by his own efforts . |
| 3 | This means that it is furthest from the logic of true/false and must speak the friend/foe vernacular . |
| 4 | Garden furniture will come up looking like new and will last longer too when you look after it with your Steamatic . |
| 5 | MAGIC ITEMS : The Emperor may carry three magic items in total and must carry the Hammer of Sigmar ( +100 points ) and the Silver Seal ( +75 points ) . |
| 6 | MAGIC ITEMS : The Supreme Patriarch may carry up to four magic items in total and must carry the Staff of Volans ( +75 points ) . |
| 7 | Effects like these are far from isolated and would seem to indicate a deeper and more worrying problem with the actual System itself . |
| 8 | Edgar Wallace , a great fan of this troupe , took a fancy to one Girl in particular and would take the whole team to the races in order to meet her . |
| 9 | For example , in the preface to Indian School Organization he explained : ‘ It is hoped that this book may be found useful … by teachers in general and headmasters in particular and may prove suggestive to Indian educationalists whose experience happens to be less varied than that of the author . ’ |
| 10 | Women with babies have something in common and can strike up a conversation , and the old and the young find it easy to talk to one another when there is a baby in the picture . |
| 11 | They can , it is suggested , " by voting 1 , 2 , 3 … for candidates of Party A and then going on to those of Party B … show that they consider these parties have much in common and should work together " . |
| 12 | Reilly opts for the return of England skipper Garry Schofield to stand-off and will give the substitute 's role to a younger player . |
| 13 | Anyone entering the sphere suffers one automatic Wound per round and must make a successful T test each round or lose one point of Strength as well . |
| 14 | Well roasted coffee beans are always brown — black beans are over roasted and will have a bitter flavour and insufficiently roasted beans are pale and give a colourless , tasteless drink . |
| 15 | An argument which pulls in the opposite direction is this : even when the government or a governmental agency is , for example , making contracts , it is doing so in some sense as representative of the citizenry at large and must bear the interests of the community as a whole constantly in mind . |