Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity .
2 Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past .
3 The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes .
4 The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization .
5 On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time .
6 When the linker is on the needlebed , this needle is facing the machine needles and it casts off in exactly the same way as you do with the latch tool .
7 The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers .
8 A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) .
9 It also masks the fact that Anglo-Saxon ‘ villages ’ probably moved about in roughly the same area from generation to generation .
10 Wesley and I have been looking round at just a few of the many attractions this year …
11 And that was very quick as well , the way you worked it out , it 's not gon na take you long to pile up with quite a few marks on that .
12 All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant .
13 Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast .
14 Noel Blake was kicked out for exactly the same reason — he could nt handle being in a squad .
15 People not not moving out at quite the same rate of knots .
16 Yet , with very few exceptions , they succeed in getting back to exactly the same stretch of river where they hatched .
17 Tickets for the show , which is being backed by the Arts Council , the City Council , and the Merseyside Development Corporation , sold out in only a few hours .
18 I was quite pleased to be back home but I missed the excitement of the trips and wanted to go back for just a few more days .
19 The defendant had been convicted under two different statutes of two offences which both arose out of essentially the same facts .
20 Water levels are coming up at exactly the same speed , and Chew and Blagdon are even being visited by the same migrant wildfowl .
21 like a G they will join up in exactly the same way next time he does it , even to the same letter
22 They were brought out on only a few special occasions and were always carefully washed and returned to their place of honour .
23 Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall .
24 You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook .
25 REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place .
26 Restating it , so , the max value of that product is N minus one Now , if you wan na know what the maximum value and negat if the score 's are negatively correlated rather than positive , you end up with exactly the same expression , N minus one , but lo and behold it 's negative .
27 I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) .
28 The two entries are adjacent to each other in the body of the encyclopedia under S. Obviously , this makes sense in that different readers approaching the synoptic outline from different disciplinary perspectives will both end up in roughly the same place , but it is slightly disturbing to find that while there is a main entry for " Applied linguistics " ( which cross-refers readers to " style " ) , there is no matching entry for " Literature and linguistics " to help the reader coming from a purely literary discipline .
29 This has gone up in virtually the same proportion as the labour cost .
30 Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break .
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