Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should for instance clearly specify whether or not we intend issuing a formal valuation report/opinion . |
| 2 | He was a poor , meagre creature , this Brother John Caldwell , thin as a rail from long starving in the woods , and by no means fully recovered as yet . |
| 3 | The intensity of the colour achieved is also much greater , as the shades become of necessity slightly diluted when mixed into icing . |
| 4 | After setting the scene this use of description slightly declines unless he is introducing a new character or scene . |
| 5 | The Swindon success story is n't just on the field … off the field they 've been rebuilding too … the overdraft is below a million … but the world of football the town of Swindon still wonders if the County Ground could cope could afford the premier league … |
| 6 | In practice this type of decision only occurs when someone else presents something that needs a decision . |
| 7 | Well ca n't you just talk cos it 's not long , just a couple of minutes just talk before you revise for a little while ? |
| 8 | It seems clear from the overseers ' accounts for the late 18th century that two of the four adult Titford brothers were living as occupants of houses once held as leasehold properties by their better-off ancestors . |
| 9 | It is of course easier said than done for someone suffering from anorexia simply to follow this recovery plan . |
| 10 | I have to confess that on many occasions I have had recourse to Hansard , of course only to check if my interpretation had conflicted with an express Parliamentary intention , but I can say that it does not take long to recall and assemble the relevant passages in which the particular section was dealt with in Parliament , nor does it take long to see if anything relevant was said . |
| 11 | This chapter attempts to answer these questions partly by reference to work in the field and in part through a review and analysis of works of fiction typically used as ‘ whole class readers ’ in the lower years of six secondary comprehensive schools and falls into two parts . |
| 12 | Fénéon possessed a dry wit , honed to a sharp edge by journalism ; he was a specialist in the sort of notes usually titled as ‘ News in brief ’ , but in France called ‘ faits divers ’ ( Sundry facts ) . |
| 13 | Where tin was absent , as in Colombia , it could be used as an alloy for copper to make tumbaga , a kind of gold-bronze easier to cast than tin-bronze and capable of reproducing finer detail . |
| 14 | Apart from the lack of noise and disturbance , which balls of groundbait normally cause when carrying hookbait samples to distant swims , there is the added , and greater , advantage that loose feed can be introduced on the ‘ little and often ’ principle . |
| 15 | The 1904 School Regulations refer to the " group of subjects commonly classed as " English " and including the English language and literature , Geography and History " . |
| 16 | The common duty of care does not impose on an occupier any obligation to a visitor in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by the visitor … |
| 17 | Section 1(6) states : No duty is owed by virtue of this section to any person in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by that person ( the question of whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another ) . |
| 18 | I think I wrote to you a couple of months ago asking if you could provide a synopsis of the latest information regarding otter movements in the lower Usk area and the likely impacts of the barrage . |
| 19 | These stories describe a form of religion commonly described as paganism , and represent what can clearly be understood as a type of polytheism . |
| 20 | The two tiny suits of armour still stood where they belonged since some remote knight had given them up ( sent them to the attic of the day , like old hunting boots ) . |
| 21 | In 1823 he was instrumental in establishing the Mechanics ' Magazine and the Mechanics ' Institute where , in 1825 , he delivered a course of lectures later published as Popular Political Economy ( 1827 ) . |
| 22 | problems of identification also arise when portraits are less individualised , as in the case of the immediate successors of the Roman Emperor Augustus , who modelled their portraits on the founder of their dynasty . |
| 23 | Our Treasurer , Jeffrey Foster , has the sort of job usually described as thankless . |
| 24 | The reappearance of serum markers of HBV often occurred while serum transaminases activities were at or near normal . |
| 25 | This suggests that considerable diversification of the vertebrate skeleton had already taken place by Lower Ordovician times and , furthermore , that it is not possible on the basis of antiquity alone to predict whether a micromeric or macromeric skeleton is the more primitive vertebrate condition . |
| 26 | Colin phoned him up , and er , it it he mentioned , how he was starting up , and he said he might be interested , anyway Colin phoned him a couple of weeks ago to see if he was still interested in . |
| 27 | The cumulative default rate — the proportion of bonds originally rated as junk that eventually defaulted — always looked more alarming , at around 30% . |
| 28 | Even in a perfectly competitive economy — the state of affairs normally regarded as most amenable to neoclassical modes of analysis — the real wage rate will remain unchanged for as long as the level of output remains unchanged ; and output will remain unchanged for as long as the level of desired real expenditure remains unchanged . |
| 29 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 30 | A sharper awareness among historians of the purpose of actions previously dismissed as desperate or revengeful has helped explain why groups of workers not infrequently combined intimidatory action with more " legitimate " forms . |