Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one , two , three and then four hours since she had acknowledged her love for Ven alternately dawdled and then flew for Fabia . |
| 2 | The mother puzzled Clara particularly , for Clelia evidently assumed that she needed no description or definition , and spoke of her as one whose name is a household word . |
| 3 | As Feynman has said , we are asked to believe that the historian who makes a statement about Napoleon simply means that there are books in libraries which make assertions similar to his own . |
| 4 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
| 5 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 6 | To summarise , the observations reported in this study and in that of Brunsson clearly indicate that ENS plays an important role in the fluid secretion seen in intestinal inflammation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | And although subsequent reviews found it thoroughly sane and quite uncontroversial , clerics of the Church of England publicly announced that they would be on standby alert to deal with any members of their congregation upset by the programmes . |
| 10 | Critics of Fiat therefore argued that its bid could be seen as a defensive move to improve its domestic position and , perhaps more importantly , to prevent a competitor from obtaining Italian production facilities , which in the long run could pose a threat to Fiat . |
| 11 | But the case of Sartre poignantly demonstrates that the return-to-history argument can really only succeed through a form of historical amnesia which conveniently forgets that history was almost impossible to find . |
| 12 | Gorbad Ironclaw was one of the most successful Orc leaders of all time : his campaign of destruction raged across the Empire and left the region of Solland so devastated that it has never fully recovered . |
| 13 | The reappearance of serum markers of HBV often occurred while serum transaminases activities were at or near normal . |
| 14 | The low level of ICA also means that many carers will still have to ‘ top up ’ the benefit with means-tested income support — if they are eligible . |
| 15 | Phil Taylor beat Phil Bolton to keep Northumberland 's hopes alive but Caldy 's Ray Hughes and Jan Higginbotham of Bramhall both won and Jamie Curtis of Didsbury got a half to clinch it for Cheshire . |
| 16 | Although the nineteenth century had seen almost all restrictions on Catholics removed , the loyalists of Ulster still believed that to accept the authority of the Pope was to open the way to papal domination and the erosion of civil liberty . |
| 17 | The detached , amused part of Phoebe sometimes thought that her main feeling at these parties was a wish that she , and everyone else too , would dare to improve the quality of the wine , but they were all too self-consciously afraid of being mistaken for Yuppies , despite the fact they were mostly a little too old and slightly too poor . |
| 18 | It might be thought reasonable to treat all cases of NSU so diagnosed when they initially present to the clinic as if they had a sexually transmitted disease and prescribe appropriate antibiotics , and , indeed , this is common practice in most clinics . |
| 19 | Their examination of Luton again found that the contemporary working class politics is essentially organised around the support and benefit of self and family . |
| 20 | All the seventeen mosques in the town of Foca either destroyed or severely damaged . |
| 21 | steel stock holder there , there is in fact er , a , a wood saw , there 's also a shed manufacturer and also a clear waste of Thetford also uses that , there are large houses , erm in there and all that traffic has to trundle along through residential areas , again onto er onto public routes , er indeed also in fact Pengate Road is very unattractive looking er settlement , if I can use that expression , so for Weeting my proposals would in fact disguise that by embankment and by tree planting , in fact I think that Weeting would gain considerably and it 's these sort of things which we will press upon your vote to draw their attention not just the |
| 22 | Anti-apartheid demonstrators were prosecuted for invading court number 2 at Wimbledon during a match involving the South African , Cliff Drysdale ; the House of Lords ultimately decided that the meaning of ‘ insulting ’ was properly a matter for the magistrates ( who had acquitted in this case ) and allowed the defendant 's appeal against the Divisional Court 's decision that the conduct had been insulting . |
| 23 | This passage of Diodorus rightly emphasizes that in times of peace there were benefits in having a rich neighbour like Carthage . |
| 24 | A politician with sufficient interest , moreover , was not above contemplating forcing out of their posts political enemies holding university appointments , as the Duke of Montrose clearly intended when expressing the hope that ‘ wee might have ane opportunity of makeing two empty sadles ’ in the university of Glasgow , namely the professors of law and medicine . |
| 25 | This mental state may indicate the remedy on its own , like the emotional state of Chamomilla often does but there may be none of it apparent and yet the physical symptoms would still indicate its use . |
| 26 | This application , if granted , would effectively destroy the ‘ comparative peace and quiet which the residents of Scorton now enjoy after the daytime visitors have left ’ . |
| 27 | The Council of Europe nevertheless survived and within its limited competence has reason to be proud of the work it has done since its inception . |
| 28 | Would the rest of Britain simply accept that it was their democratic right to self-determination that was being exercised ? |
| 29 | Kohl and President Mitterrand of France jointly declared that " the accomplishment of Germany unity … gives … a new dimension and broader horizons to our co-operation " . |
| 30 | A Socialist ex-prime minister of France recently remarked that ‘ Europe should advance without the British , who could always rejoin later . ’ |