Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Florey , for reasons already mentioned and for others , had no wish to deal with the press . |
| 2 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 3 | The one , two , three and then four hours since she had acknowledged her love for Ven alternately dawdled and then flew for Fabia . |
| 4 | The introduction into the mass market ( as opposed to business and education ) of CD-I , CD-ROM XA , and the ‘ electronic book ’ will expand the demand for titles increasingly initiated and produced exclusively as non-print publications . |
| 5 | Winter arrived in some parts of West Germany just 15 days after autumn officially began and some areas in the Black Forest and the Alps recorded freezing temperatures and snowfalls |
| 6 | We as parents strongly object and will fight to keep this centre open . |
| 7 | The area of skin actually dies and looks white and initially feels numb . |
| 8 | The Duke and Duchess of Richmond sought an answer , but the Duke of Wellington merely smiled and blithely proposed that the company should proceed to supper . |
| 9 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 10 | Her piles of patterns just grew and grew , |
| 11 | The Hungarians attempted to create a marcher zone to protect their frontier against the Turks by supporting Bosnian resistance in the area between Jajce and the Sava , but after the battle of Mohács in 1526 these pockets of resistance soon collapsed and virtually all Bosnia and Hercegovina lay under the rule of the sultans until the late nineteenth century . |
| 12 | This produced a spectacular decline in the number of birds successfully reared and eventually in the total population of adult birds . |
| 13 | The grant-aid earned under the new Regulations was adequate but it was not generous and although class programmes were extended to new centres and programmes expanded in existing branches , the costs of provision also increased and the District required overdraft facilities until 1950 when a small surplus was secured . |
| 14 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 15 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 16 | Any reader literal enough to doubt Quinn 's success in those matters is likely to be diverted by the thrust and crackle of action rapidly described and by the element of chance so quickly exploited by the boy . |
| 17 | What we are going to do is differentiate the average product function the average product , right , is the quotient of total product right , and the the amount of labour actually used and as a result if you want to differentiate it you can use a quotient rule of differentiation . |
| 18 | In the branch of the Banco dell'Annunziazione a girl , whose face was a mask of disappointment nobly borne and from whose carmined lips dangled a cigarette miraculously balancing a tube of ash , clattered calculations as she stood before an upright typewriter and , in less time than she had expected , Molly was in possession of a mound of hundred thousand lire notes . |
| 19 | Some of the reasons for this — the difficulty of deciding on appropriate proxy variables and on economical yet non-biasing temporal and spatial sampling frameworks , taking account of the relative importance of aperiodic and rare events as compared to near-continuous processes , processing the vast volumes of data usually involved and organizing the multidisciplinary and ( often ) multinational researchers involved — are discussed briefly later . |
| 20 | Secondly , it is the case that this rule of recognition , in terms of which he assesses the validity of a particular statute , is not only accepted by him but is the rule of recognition actually accepted and employed in the general operation of the system . |
| 21 | One of the most significant recent developments in the criminal justice system in England and Wales has been the vast increase in the proportion of defendants legally advised and represented in the courts . |
| 22 | So wherever you get that sort of question just stop and think |
| 23 | Our commitment to that principle was given greater weight by the fact that benefit claims for students frequently presented administrative problems out of all proportion to the amounts of benefit finally awarded and the duration of the benefit periods . |
| 24 | It was impossible to escape an impression of lives deeply disturbed and unhappy . |
| 25 | Credit provided by bills of exchange thus lubricates and assists trade development . |
| 26 | From the time of the Anschluss in March 1938 , until the outbreak of war in September 1939 , hopes of peace gradually faded and we began to prepare for the grim reality . |
| 27 | The proposal , submitted by Mid-Hants Railway plc , will give a group of enthusiasts somewhere to store and repair old buses and coaches . |
| 28 | The photic zone is , this is percent saturation of oxygen fully saturated and what we 're seeing here is oxygen being utilized by respiration . |
| 29 | By 1963 , under the pressure of opinion already analysed and the genial leadership of Boyle , the rationale of any rigorous Conservative case for selection at eleven-plus had been fatally undermined . |
| 30 | It is difficult to record colour objectively : people 's appreciation of colours obviously vary and , in any case , Nucella does not exist in discrete colour morphs . |