Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb base] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing have the return invitations dwindled a bit over the years . |
| 2 | ‘ Some of the things said about me give the impression that I am quite mad . |
| 3 | Whilst you might use these behaviours and through them create an impression of being genuine , it will , of course , quickly be destroyed unless you do what you say you will do . |
| 4 | The site at Jelling now consists of two turf mounds , and between them stand a stone church and the rune stones , the larger of which weighs nearly ten tons . |
| 5 | When constructing a bar chart , it should be noted that the width of the bars or any gaps between them have no significance at all . |
| 6 | For the record , then , here are six skylines which for me crystallise the quality of the whole 50 I completed ( though in the end there was only room for 45 ) . |
| 7 | And if any words could be found in the Statute which provided that besides paying Income Tax on income people should pay for advantages or emoluments in its wider sense ( such as I think the word " emoluments " here , has not , for reasons to be presently given ) , there is no doubt of Mr Tennant 's possession of a material advantage , which made his salary of higher value to him than if he did not possess it , and upon the hypothesis which I have just indicated , would be taxable accordingly . |
| 8 | What about I do the mince piece after him . |
| 9 | But it would be old lamps and Peedie bits of and when you speak about long ago times I associate the smell of paraffin and sawdust and cooking apples and all that you go into Peedie shops and there was a fine relationship , you go in and Well I used to be for the old folk and they were all awful good to me , and the particular and we used to go every Saturday night to a shop called Blacks and it stayed open till nine o'clock . |
| 10 | After what seem an eternity , but which in reality could only have been about fifteen minutes , the paramedics from the county ambulance service arrived , and under David 's supervision the serious business of trying to lift Len out began . |
| 11 | The prisoners are allowed out of their cells from around 5.30 in the morning until 6.30 in the evening , during which time a majority of them would be involved in some type of work ; this is because for every two days they work they can earn one day 's remission of sentence . |
| 12 | ( b ) Where an order is subject to a negative resolution it must be laid before Parliament ( usually for 40 days ) during which time a member can move a prayer to annul it . |
| 13 | Give it a rich soil in full sun and it will pay for its keep a thousandfold . |
| 14 | Their £140-a-day living allowance alone is about what pensioners get for their keep a month . |
| 15 | Much of it is clearly apologist , particularly that produced directly by TNCs or by public relations firms on their behalf ( for which see the analysis of Stauffer , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | Once considered a passing craze , events life this continue to attract thousands of young people , many of whom regard the taking of Ecstacy as an essential part of the entertainment . |
| 17 | The kingdoms of Ulthuan are ruled by a collection of princes , princesses and mages , above all of whom preside the King and Queen . |
| 18 | According to Laboratoires Garnier who make Permifique , over 6 million women in the UK have permed hair , a third of whom choose a home per . |
| 19 | Nor is it an effective method of notifying the members , creditors or the general public , few of whom read the Gazette . |
| 20 | The Unix community , many of whom own a piece of USL , could do worse than promote a of church/state relationship between USL ( as Unix mentor ) and the practitioners of statecraft ( Unix providers ) who are also believers . |
| 21 | The Scrutiny Committee ( the Joint Select Committee on Statutory Instruments ) , latest in a line of successors to a House of Commons select committee first appointed in 1944 , is a committee of 14 ( 7 MPs and 7 peers ) , any 2 of whom constitute a quorum . |
| 22 | The British , French and Russians , each of whom have a veto in the Security Council , have deep misgivings about lifting it . |
| 23 | Here Japan and South Korea , both of whom have a surfeit of nationalistic fervour , have a huge advantage . |
| 24 | He believes that the increases in transport fuel costs will hit both farmers and farmworkers , many of whom have no alternative to the car in public transport . |
| 25 | This impoverishes the 4m Sahelians , most of whom have no alternative to cattle farming . |
| 26 | I am , however , less concerned about Tory claims of vindication than about what Labour voters — the great majority of whom have no wish to embrace the SNP as prodigal brothers — make of it . |
| 27 | We are coming to an end , let me remind you that er of this particular hundred , sixty three of whom have the use of a car , fifty seven have been involved in an accident , fifty seven and I 'm sure it ca n't be a , er it must be a coincidence say their personalities change behind the driving wheel |
| 28 | As I heard the words I knew they were wrong , but could n't for the life of me remember the dolmen 's proper name . |
| 29 | I can not for the life of me imagine a place as distant as Italy . |
| 30 | I ca n't for the love of me understand the leadership of all the unions that allowed , we do n't even get enough holidays of what they get on the continent , we should be asking for more , not taking them off us or putting it in October to celebrate Nelson and Trafalgar because I could n't give a monkey for 'em . |