Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | An increase in the real money supply can be brought about by the far more direct route of central bank intervention to increase the nominal stock of money by an amount sufficient to attain full employment . |
| 32 | You 're talking about some forms of abuse which went on for a very very long time indeed to pull the average up like that . |
| 33 | I went down to the straight away to the coal dealer and said , Take him a load of coal , and he took him . |
| 34 | Just prior to Twelfth Night in the January of 1483 , Anne went down with a not too serious attack of the prevalent sweating sickness . |
| 35 | Taking their lead from the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ of American journalism , a more colourful , gossipy style of writing took over from the rather self-consciously poetic late Victorian style with its ‘ hapless custodians ’ and ‘ leather spheroids ’ . |
| 36 | Heralded by a deafening midnight firework display and a cacophony of ships ’ hooters and truck horns , P&O 's Pride of Kent , the first ferry arrival of the New Year , docked in the port 's Number Two berth and the first trucks rolled off onto the otherwise virtually empty quayside . |
| 37 | It was n't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep . |
| 38 | The buyer might end up with a much more expensive house which had a better kitchen . |
| 39 | We can make our ‘ tree diagram ’ grow to look like this : If we then look at this phrase in the context of a longer phrase ‘ twenty places further back ’ , and build up the ‘ further back ’ part in a similar way , we would end up with an even more elaborate structure : |
| 40 | Auer was suspended in a hanging basket , his dead legs dangling beneath him , reaching out with a surreally long scoop to dredge the chips into a central sinkhole . |
| 41 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
| 42 | Discussions of film and television genre habitually nod towards the broad stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics since Aristotle — epic , lyric , drama , comedy , tragedy — and quickly move on to the more immediately recognizable categories under which industry products are branded and sold — horror , western , musical , soap opera , crime series . |
| 43 | Measurements were taken and delivered along with a very roughly drawn sketch . |
| 44 | After bathing and dressing we wander down to the surprisingly well attended dining room for Christmas lunch . |
| 45 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 46 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 47 | The theory is worked out with a perhaps necessarily cavalier attitude to traditional assumptions , including those relating to the chronology of the plays . |
| 48 | They may twitch , move around to an apparently more comfortable position , but their eyes remain closed and they remain unresponsive . |
| 49 | They can be blotted down for an even more subtle finish , if you prefer , then topped with a dewy lipgloss . |
| 50 | Yeah , she come back as a bloody well , thirteen year old was a five year old and she come back |
| 51 | Ellwood said , ‘ So just stick around for a little longer , yeah ? |
| 52 | So if we hear any screeching noises or bells , which er do n't turn off after a very very short period of time , we are to er make our way in an orderly fashion to the er base of the staircase of the fire escape , following the fire escape er signs . |
| 53 | Edward , resentful , set off in an even more dour frame of mind than usual . |
| 54 | Old victories are savoured ; ancient defeats glossed over , and the Party 's leaders held up to a not always affectionate scrutiny . |
| 55 | Hungary stood out as the most environmentally aware country in Eastern Europe , with over half of its companies having implemented environmental policy . |
| 56 | This alone improves NEC by around £70/kW/ year and the final NEC works out at the much more favourable — £93/kW/year . |