Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the capital 's road space is used for only part of the day . |
| 2 | Gresham chairman Sid Green professed himself ‘ modestly satisfied ’ with the company 's pre-tax profit of £767,000 on sales of £7.25m — last year 's sales were £6.29m but the two companies had been combined for only part of the accounting period . |
| 3 | In most countries , groundwater flows from aquifers throughout the year but rainfall replenishes them for only part of the time . |
| 4 | The police had sealed off only part of the city centre while the bomb squad investigated . |
| 5 | Simple guidelines about only eating at the table at meal-times and not snacking may be required . |
| 6 | Police have put on display a number of items found on a man arrested by a special patrol at Llandudno in the early hours of yesterday morning in the hope that the owners can be traced . |
| 7 | I think at er the sort of level of development and the location implications of er such a strategic exception , fifty hectares in some location which was totally outside the context of approved locational policy , this would represent a significant element of really nonconformity with the plan . |
| 8 | Team Pension News , which has been written in a bright , punchy style , carries an in-depth analysis of how money from the Mirror pension fund was misappropriated by Maxwell and an explanation of how a repeat can be avoided . |
| 9 | He gave a perfect demonstration of how egg on the face leads a pompous body still further into the mire . |
| 10 | The Centre is a shining example of how Care in the Community is designed to work . |
| 11 | As we will see , offences of this kind are dealt with without hesitation on the basis of simple reciprocity . |
| 12 | The report was produced by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar in compliance with a UN resolution of 1987 instructing him to enquire into where responsibility for the conflict lay . |
| 13 | One of the problems with the streamed situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly , or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes with occasionally vandalism around the school and a generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general . |
| 14 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 15 | Runcorn had fallen behind in the 19th minute but were unlucky to go in only level at the break through Steve Shaughnessy 's brilliantly taken equaliser - a flashing near post header from a cross by right back Jamie Bates . |
| 16 | Lord Waddington — former Home Secretary , until recently Leader of the House of Lords and eternal British bulldog of the Tory Right — gulps as he hears his fate in the post-election reshuffle . |
| 17 | Exceptions to this bias towards language include a crude behaviourism still strongly asserted in some archaeological theories which reduce the artefact as cultural construction to merely part of the process by which an environment works its determinant force upon the human subject . |
| 18 | We used to paly croquet on the lawn . |
| 19 | We used to paly badminton on the lawn . |
| 20 | The purchaser of assets will pay stamp duty at double this rate but on only part of the consideration . |
| 21 | If this is not the case , split off into a separate relation those attributes that are dependent on only part of the key . |
| 22 | When the needles are selected , the weaving yarn can be laid over only part of the row to produce a wide variety of effects . |
| 23 | Where the tenancy is protected by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , a break-clause which relates to only part of the property is wholly ineffective ( Southport Old Links Ltd v Naylor and Another ( 1984 ) 273 EG 767 ) . |
| 24 | Beneath the oceans it is thought to extend to a depth of around 10–15km , that is to only 5–1Okm below the ocean floor . |
| 25 | Yes , if you , you do n't have , do you want to chart it up , or do you want to just feedback to the group ? |
| 26 | Studies of responses to both separation from the attachment object and subsequent reunion with it , yield unequivocal support to the proposition that attachments can and often do survive periods of absence , undiminished in strength , despite the fact that attachment behaviour may diminish in strength during the period of absence . |
| 27 | Worryingly , the plan contains few details on how spending on the army and the bureaucracy will be cut — and it is excessively vague on other points . |
| 28 | He really wanted to do a play on maybe Broadway at the time — something different . ’ |
| 29 | However , a preservation society had been formed in the mean time to come to am arrangement with the Company to secure its future operation . |
| 30 | However , it is a moot point as to how representative of the Church of England the General Synod is , or indeed any other of the layers — Diocesan or Deanery . |