Ex. 1. Insert the correct prepositions if you can. Translate into Russian. Consult a dictionary if necessary.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 481.

THE OBJECT

1. It was the start of the new semester, and the campus was teeming ... students.

2. For years the satellite spied ... secret weapon bases.

3. John was longing ... everyone to leave so that he could think in peace about what had happened that day.

4. My friends rather disapprove ... my smoking.

5. The test put candidates whose first language was not English ... a disadvantage.

6. Britain's pollution regulations are inconsistent ... stricter European regulations.

7. She is the kind of woman who delights ... pointing out other people's mistakes.

8. Occasionally she indulges ... a bottle of wine or a box of chocolates.

9. They are going to charge him ... dangerous driving.

10. The canal system fell ... disuse around the end of the nineteenth century.

11. Mr Smith was indicted ... perjury before a grand jury.

12. It was so quiet that one could actually hear the squirrels frolicking ... the trees, all of which created a weird feeling.

13. Throughout the 1920s and 30s memories of the Great War exerted a powerful influence ... foreign policy.

14. Increases ... efficiency will be necessary if the company is to survive.

15. In the end she convinced the jury ... her innocence.

16. The university has already conferred honorary degrees ... several prime ministers.

17. To her relief Mary was acquitted ... all the charges laid against her.

18. The Government is obliged to comply ... the court's ruling.

19. What's the best cure ... a hangover?

20. Being a member entitles you ... discounts on tickets.

21. The president is being treated ... an acute respiratory condition.

22. Having decided ... a career in journalism, I wrote to all the major newspapers asking ... an interview.

23. Factories are using the river to dispose ... their industrial waste.

24. I've made this recipe dozens of times before, so I think I can dispense ... the recipe book.

25. Telling a lie or denying the truth -- it amounts ... the same thing.