Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You depict rare occurrences — like Westerners paying for foster children to visit their affluent country — as a major problem . |
| 2 | He remembers asking Control why he was not also given a Thomas Leavy passport , and being told that , as there was enough time for him to go through normal channels to get one , a legitimate passport was always a safer bet . |
| 3 | As The Lord of the Rings was coming to the end of its gestation it became possible for the first time for political leaders to say they wanted nothing and make it come true . |
| 4 | It was clearly time for political scientists to reassess their pluralist perspective on interest groups : groups were real enough but were they still a " good " thing ? |
| 5 | Total output as measured by real gross national product ( GNP ) expanded at an annual rate of only 0.5 per cent in the final quarter , the smallest rise since mid-1986 , but an unexpected increase of 2.5 per cent in orders for durable goods made it difficult to formulate firm economic forecasts . |
| 6 | Geographers have discovered a recent tendency for rural areas to see something of a recovery in population and employment levels , no matter where they are ; conversely , conurbation ( metropolitan ) areas have suffered a loss of population and employment , whether in London , the West Midlands or the North ; while intervening areas lie along a statistical continuum . |
| 7 | It is easy to say now that the potential for cellular telephones made it easy to focus on that business . |
| 8 | I began by describing the position as Labour Members see it . |
| 9 | La Tribune said the government would not be against Bull selling Zenith outright , naming Hewlett-Packard Co , Canon Inc and NEC Corp as possible candidates to buy it . |
| 10 | This organisation happily ploughs a furrow totally at odds with the notion of free trade , by making it as difficult as Possible for non-German companies to sell their wares in Germany without DIN approval — even where EEC law says that the only approval necessary is from the country of origin . |
| 11 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 12 | The student will no doubt come across scores in which these numbers are exceeded ( e.g. among the works of Wagner , Strauss , Mahler , Stravinsky , Holst , etc. ) , but the above specification is , as we have said , the normal one and it is inadvisable for economic reasons to expand it unless , of course , extra instruments are absolutely indispensable for the full expression of the composer 's ideas . |
| 13 | It has always been in order for Ministers on the Front Bench to read their answers and it has never been in order for hon. Members to read their questions . |
| 14 | As for old colleagues resenting his intrusion on their territory : ‘ Any external agent is going to be viewed with a certain amount of suspicion . |
| 15 | The way was thereby opened for English merchants to establish themselves in the island , and William Bolton came to Madeira as an agent for Robert Heysham of London , who had a brother in Barbados to whom Bolton shipped a large quantity of wine . |
| 16 | These committees act as a forum for interested parties to air their grievances and as a result enables a clearer picture to emerge of the extent of any odour problem in the area . |
| 17 | Well , when , when it comes to talking about er transport in a rural area and , and talking about transport in the Western Isles , er were not talking about buses or trains , were talking about ferries and , and planes and you just wonder when you hear some of the statistics erm from these companies just what sort of service they are at providing to local people , where your talking about ferries at arriving in , in port at half past eleven to half past twelve at night , that 's not a service for local people , I mean you hear about British Airways increasing their domestic fares to er , by seven per cent as of the beginning of April er you just have to ask is this a service been put up provided for er local people , and it just is n't . |
| 18 | In a hired car , a motorhome or even on horseback , America is the place for British visitors to go it alone . |
| 19 | He pledged more help for British companies to export their goods and take advantage of the falling value of the pound abroad . |
| 20 | Communication Intelligence Corp , Redwood Shores , California has filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission to offer 3m shares , 2.7m of them new , to raise an indicated $10.75m , which the manufacturer of components for pen-based computers says it plans to use for working capital and its proposed joint venture in China . |
| 21 | We are only able to present the figures for 1987 in Table 12.1 because the House of Commons Social Security Committee commissioned the Institute for Fiscal Studies to calculate them . |
| 22 | At one time it was common for French soldiers to leave their wives with dildos ( artificial penises ) when they marched off to war , to reduce the risk of adultery while they were away . |
| 23 | He appointed a seneschal , receiver and auditors to ad-minister his French lands and employed a proctor-general for French affairs to represent his interests at law . |
| 24 | On the whole it is not the present fashion for public companies to complicate their capital structures by having a large number of share classes — though much ingenuity is displayed in devising the most attractive methods of marketing issues and in creating types of company securities , other than shares but with rights to convert into shares . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards , on July 31 , the central bank introduced a two-tier dinar/US dollar exchange rate according to which ( i ) the government would continue to provide dollars at an existing fixed rate for a specified list of imports ; and ( ii ) a separate free market exchange rate would prevail for commercial banks meeting their legitimate foreign currency needs . |
| 26 | This is not a plea for historical recorders to get their act together and check facts first-hand — I think the forces of establishment and vested interest are too strong for that to work , and anyway it would n't solve all the problems . |
| 27 | It is useful for would-be choreographers to examine his ballets and discover that he mostly set them in countries possessing easily recognised characteristics . |
| 28 | The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks . |
| 29 | After unsuccessful attempts to sell his enormous stock of prints through public auctions he retired to his wife 's house , suitably named ‘ The Retreat ’ . |
| 30 | We may think we are an uncaring society but in this matter of looking after our own , we are most emphatically not : for every hundred old people only one is in a home and then often after enormous efforts to help them at home have failed . |