Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She was sent to a local predominantly majority school in Washington , and although credible from a political point of view , the move presented the impressionable girl with a confusing and often unstable lifestyle .
2 Of buildings entirely in fifteenth century style , the chapels are supreme : outstandingly Eton College Chapel ( 1441 ) , King 's College Chapel , Cambridge ( 1446–1515 ) , and S. George 's Chapel , Windsor ( 1475–1509 ) .
3 The first is that they have become much more reliant upon state benefits : first supplementary benefit and latterly income support ( which replaced supplementary benefit in 1988 ) .
4 If she wanted , she could do a little daytime television work in one of the London studios .
5 That 's a worst case scenario .
6 ARAN TAKES ON ICL SOFTWARE AS TRANSACTION POINT GOES DOWN
7 So whatever duty you were on — morning duty , that was all right , it was in the firm 's time , but if you were on afternoon duty , you would have to attend court and maybe go straight on afternoon duty .
8 The business is effectively recession proof , if anything it probably does better when times are hard .
9 After the War General Student who had commanded German airborne forces congratulated Lord Mountbatten on the raid as the ‘ best example of the use of airborne forces with other forces ’ , and Lord Mountbatten considers this raid ‘ the most 100% perfection of any raid I know ’ .
10 Some had sons working at home , but on others the sons had taken on contract work to bring in additional ( much needed ) income .
11 But we can pass on experience whiich will be a great contribution .
12 A little Fulham girl who he said was quite promising came in with a friend or two to dance with her .
13 all the brick , yeah , well er , it was er mostly brick yard round then was n't it ?
14 Numbness , paralysis and eventually heart failure result .
15 Fifteen of them will travel to the region which has been devastated by civil war to bring back its most heart rendering victims … the children .
16 APPs are mostly money purchase schemes , that is , they do not have a guaranteed final pension , unlike most occupational pension schemes , nor are they index-linked up to retirement age , unlike SERPs .
17 Father and son team up to take on top-dogs Quay
18 Powys was an area of intensive agriculture , predominantly sheep breeding .
19 7pm Wigmore Hall £4-£7 Pinchas Zukerman The American violinist 's only London recital this season .
20 And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’
21 ‘ Against the Faroe Islands , we took off Mark Hughes and brought on Gary Speed .
22 Demolished country houses above left Spixworth Hall , Norfolk ; below left Paxton Park , Cambridgeshire ; opposite above left Henham Hall Suffolk ; above right Carter Place hall , Lancashire ; centre left Tranby Lodge , Humberside ; centre right Baynards Park , Surrey ; below Billing Hall , Northamptonshire
23 Carriers do n't suffer themselves , but have genes which can pass on sickle cell .
24 We noted in Chapter 3 that the son of Richard Glover , of Tyndale Baptist Chapel in Bristol , became a classics don at Cambridge and eventually University Orator .
25 Halflings are not especially warlike by nature , and their troopers are for the most part country watchmen , game wardens and foresters .
26 First , legislation allowed paid release only for certain stipulated categories ; these were for the most part workplace stewards and health and safety representatives .
27 Ramblers , weeping standards — which are for the most part rambler types budded into tall standard stems — climbers , climbing sports and several species types all fall largely within the first category , but so often have peculiarities of their own that we should not generalize .
28 Councillors were given a free vote , but for the most part opinion followed party lines , with Labour and the Liberal Democrats against the sport , the Tories for it .
29 Radio was a latecomer , and for the most part artillery observation planes communicated with their batteries by dropping messages ( generally in the form of marked-up maps ) in capsules attached to a banderole , or long streamer .
30 Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else .
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