Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polygon and EUP staff work alongside one another in the press 's four-storey Georgian offices , effectively open-plan through everyone habitually leaving the doors of their small rooms open . |
| 2 | Peter was famous for nothing besides denying the Lord and putting his foot in his mouth up to the kneecap on several occasions , but he was chosen . |
| 3 | And there were plenty left over for everyone else to have a taste , too . |
| 4 | The windows are now boarded up , but the rocks which came through them still litter the floor . |
| 5 | Shrewsbury by the way are a third division team , they 're about eighth or ninth in the table so er a great chance for them tonight to cause a major upset . |
| 6 | ‘ In order for them not to happen the law would have to be changed and , with the time it would take to change the law , we would n't be able to do so before the elections are due to happen . |
| 7 | The instances are the practice and the practice is the rule ; a rule is ‘ internally related ’ to its instances , and the sceptic 's attempts to plant a gap between them simply betray a misconception of what it is to follow a rule . |
| 8 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 9 | Negotiators from the two countries agreed in Geneva , at the end of the 15th round of bilateral talks which closed on April 26 , to cut their chemical weapons stocks to 5,000 tonnes each , and in June a summit accord between them formally endorsed a ban on the production of chemical weapons [ see p. 37518 ] . |
| 10 | Even where deep affection remains unaltered , the gap between them often becomes a chasm as years go by . |
| 11 | With the leave of the House , it remains for me only to thank the Select Committee on Energy for allowing us to hear the Government 's reply . |
| 12 | She is silently waiting for me now to understand the nature of what she is offering me . |
| 13 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
| 14 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 15 | Elizabeth waited for a moment as though for someone else to open the door and then rose and went to do so herself . |
| 16 | Subba Row , also the chairman of Surrey and a former England and Northamptonshire batsman , will remain a powerful voice but clearly wishes for someone else to take the responsibility for the hazards to come . |
| 17 | Although urged by his party to remain , he thought , like a decent democrat , that it was time for someone else to have a go , and he retired at the time of the 1987 General Election . |
| 18 | Interviewed on BBC Radio Four 's Today programme , Swales said : ‘ I would love to keep going , but I realise it is probably time for someone else to have a go . |
| 19 | Batty 's other great strength is controling the ball , no matter how fast or high it is he brings it down with his chest or foot so he can lay it off for someone else to make a defence splitting pass . |
| 20 | 5 If you leave a message for someone else to phone the journalist back , check to see that they have not missed the message or forgotten to fulfil it . |
| 21 | Selina 's next move might have seemed an odd one for someone out to make a name for herself . |
| 22 | Later , it was possible to pay for Somebody else to carry a pike for you ; like the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League , the Persians found such a system more convenient and perhaps , in dissident satrapies , more secure . |
| 23 | Phonemically , plea is represented as which also embeds the lexical item lee , phonemically . |
| 24 | It was striking for its insistence on the role of the Holy Spirit , but equally remarkable for its firmly identifying the Roman Catholic Church with the body of Christ . |
| 25 | In order to erode inflationary expectations , deflationary policies may be called for which temporarily raise the unemployment rate above U * ; , thereby leading by degrees to downward revisions of the expected , and hence the actual , rate of inflation . |
| 26 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |
| 27 | Gorbachev 's plans for more radical nuclear weapons cuts were generally received with caution , however , by Western leaders , some of whom reportedly questioned the feasibility of the proposals in the face of the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | It 's only a problem for UK subscribers , most of whom automatically have a choice of 2 From : addresses — a long one and a short one . |
| 29 | Passageways were pierced through the walls of houses in some places , and in others they were supported on props along the faces of warehouses and shops , and it was across one of these — a sturdy bridge of timber which was designed to withstand the weight of carts as well as men — that Burun 's party moved without very much opposition from the revellers , most of whom clearly preferred the breadth of the main streets . |
| 30 | He was also involved with five Senators , all of whom later faced an ethics inquiry [ see p. 38568 ] . |