Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 2 | She and Nevil were looking after Margaret and Rose as John and Laura had gone out to the theatre for the evening . |
| 3 | President Fidel Castro Ruz in his address to the conference again ruled out a multiparty political system for Cuba and stressed that the encouragement of inward investment did not mean the end of the country 's brand of state-led communism . |
| 4 | On Aug. 23 fears of a power struggle heightened when the Katanga Gendarmes , a secessionist movement based in Angola , declared their support for Nguza and said that they were awaiting his orders to begin military operations in the country . |
| 5 | Voting for Maastricht and hoping that the Tories can be beaten at a later date on the Social Chapter was a decision I found difficult to accept and I have done my homework on this issue . |
| 6 | Early in 1159 Henry II travelled south through Poitou and Saintonge until he came to Blaye on the Gironde . |
| 7 | This expression is derived from the fuller analysis of Mooney and Ewart as follows . |
| 8 | It is evident from the analysis of Sankoff and Laberge that the Marxist concept of class is less easily operationalized than the stratificational one . |
| 9 | These include statements of general and specific aims , learning experiences , various forms of knowledge and areas of experience ( e.g. the cognitive-based analysis of Hirst and Peters and the HMI areas discussed earlier ) , skills , and modes of expression ( verbal and non-verbal ) . |
| 10 | There was no mention in the treaty , however , either of the estates in Scotland granted to English lords by Edward I and lost as Bruce gained control of the country , or of the Scottish lands held by Anglo-Scottish lords such as the Earl of Angus and forfeited when they adhered to the English cause . |
| 11 | Please send appeals condemning the killing of Gyalpo and urging that a full , impartial inquiry into Gyalpo 's death be carried out , and its methods and results made public . |
| 12 | Besides the technical rarity and interest of this work , one must comment upon its aesthetic resemblance to the art of Rembrandt and recall that they were contemporaries . |
| 13 | In this the sociology of knowledge follows what he calls a ‘ reactionary prejudice ’ of Hegel and Engels that asserted that freedom could be gained by knowledge about the determinants affecting social being ( Popper 1966 : 223 ) . |
| 14 | He rang the managing director of Downton and said that if the other two players did n't have their contracts cancelled immediately he and Mary-Ann would call a Press Conference , tear up their contracts with his company , and tell the world 's Press why . |
| 15 | Will Her Majesty 's Government recognise the Government of Ukraine and show that they are on the side of democracy and freedom ? |
| 16 | He spent November at Roxburgh , where he issued letters patent in which he recognized Edward III as lord superior of Scotland and declared that he had already done homage to Edward , in return for which Edward had agreed to maintain and protect him and his heirs in the kingdom . |
| 17 | We are driving through parts of Brixton that look like they 've never seen daylight . |
| 18 | Syrian sources claimed that logistical problems had delayed the release of Erriquez and confirmed that he would soon be freed . |
| 19 | Calling the P5 a ‘ paper tiger ’ responsible for the collapse of ACE and claiming that the chip fails to live up to its promises , Slater notes that ‘ the P5 is turning out to be not a few months behind the R4000 , but over a year later — and by the time the P5 is shipping , the MIPS semiconductor partners will be shipping the R4400 with perhaps 50% better performance than the P5 . ’ |
| 20 | Data Connection 's feat raises some questions about the APPI consortium : the company is a member of APPI and believes that the two approaches can live happily side by side . |
| 21 | ‘ It has been suggested to me by the parents of Tomkiss and Wattling that their sons are skilled in … metalwork , and that the school should have an … option that would enable them to pursue their interest in this … field . |
| 22 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 23 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
| 24 | The Constitutional Court on Feb. 19 also annulled the electoral results in the North African enclave of Melilla and ruled that fresh elections should take place there within six weeks . |
| 25 | For advanced courses , the next few years should be a time to consolidate the positive achievements of ACDP and to adjust and refine as necessary , but not to initiate radical change . |
| 26 | He reaffirmed his support for a Palestinian state and called on the Israeli government to enter into direct negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , but also denounced the Arab economic boycott of Israel and said that he would press the European Communities ( EC ) to pass measures opposing it . |
| 27 | This was the first time we had returned to Eggleston Burn since a summer visit in search of the Grass of Parnassus and butterwort that grow in its boggy flushes . |
| 28 | ( I suppose RE lessons would be the only exception to this rule , but when you 've got an RE teacher that does n't believe in the existence of God and thinks that Jesus was an astronaut there 's a limit to how ‘ Christian ’ Religious Education really can be ! ) |
| 29 | He began to teach men and women the kingdom of God and declared that it was already in their midst . |
| 30 | Establishing a positive self-image does not depend on a cheery morale boost , but on appropriating the promises of God and praying and planning expectantly for their outworking in the situations in which God has already placed us or challenged us to become involved . |