Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like so much else the Romans had established , they and the villas were left to decay and collapse . |
| 2 | The Zenon Papyri have shown how in about 259 B.C. the agents of the finance minister Apollonius operated in the interests of their master : one of his estates was at Bet Anat in Galilee ( Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum 1 , 1–5 ) . |
| 3 | From about ten o'clock the bars and the street start to fill up . |
| 4 | Their Neolithic context is confirmed by occurrences in the cairn of Cairnholy , south-west Scotland , in the causewayed enclosure at High Peak , Devonshire , and above all on the course of the Sweet timber trackway in the Somerset Levels dated in radiocarbon years to c. 3200 B.C. The absence of any trace of haft or binding under conditions exceptionally favourable for the survival of organic materials and the lack of the slightest sign of wear suggest that the jadeite celt was deposited as an unhafted and unused blade to fulfil a symbolic role . |
| 5 | At approximately 4.40 p.m. the clerk to the court returned to say that no other justice was available . |
| 6 | At about 10 am the owner of the jetty arrives . |
| 7 | Each morning at around 6 am the BBC opens up with an uninterrupted series of Open University films . |
| 8 | And at precisely twelve o'clock the fan belt broke . |
| 9 | There were lots of people in plastic rain hoods puffing their way up a huge , cobbled stairway , complaining at how wide apart the steps had been laid . |