Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office earned plaudits for roping in so many ministers ( a total bag of 80 ) , while Mr Ridley 's visit to China in January was responsible for the important participation of the Chinese . |
| 2 | 5 I think owl 's eyes are adapted for seeing in very low light . |
| 3 | A new London Bus Executive will be responsible for bus-stops , stands and stations and for contracting out socially necessary services . |
| 4 | Let them do what they like as long as you 're not well they do , they kill you , kill you stone dead er them French vaches Cos , see you go in down here you see , where you 've got ta jump up to get out got ta jump up off the floor , you got ta jump up about four feet to get out see , they were n't just like |
| 5 | ’ … so pro rata , even by our own romantic criteria for singling out just one girl from the hundred we meet , there must be at least fifteen million members of the opposite sex in the world who would make an ideal mate ! … |
| 6 | It is important to dress comfortably , with shoes that are suitable for walking over fairly rough ground . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , after walking in almost total darkness with no lights to guide him save the fast-darkening sky , Tom reached the village hall . |
| 8 | BIRTHDAY boy Fred Proctor was in seventh heaven after notching up yet another election success . |
| 9 | AFTER reading about so much dishonesty I would like to share an incident of real public spirit and honesty . |
| 10 | At first , the rate of synthesis was slowed down by the poison , but after evolving through about nine test-tube transfer ‘ generations ’ , a new strain of RNA that was resistant to the poison had been selected . |
| 11 | After test driving a Ford RS2000 police car he praised the UK motor industry for developing more environmentally friendly vehicles , including the use of alternative fuels . |
| 12 | With renewed talk of winding down both military alliances some ministers believe Nato must avoid stating the obvious : that the Warsaw Pact could cease to exist as a viable alliance . |
| 13 | Strong enough to whip a 1 50-kilogramme seal out of the water with one paw , able to swim many kilometres in freezing seas and quite capable of climbing up almost vertical ice-faces , they represent one of nature 's supreme examples of adaptation to an inhospitable environment . |
| 14 | Few animals inspire such extremes of love and hate as the fox , and this may go some way towards explaining why so much nonsense is written and talked about them . |
| 15 | However , the practical problems of matching up hugely varying exams , at different levels , in a vast variety of subjects , while also paying due respect to the inevitable sectional interests and sensitivities , seem almost insurmountable . |
| 16 | If the ‘ postface ’ is the attitude of feigned female acquiescence to male views , the ‘ preface ’ is that which objects , that which goes through the tiresome ‘ routine ’ of explaining exactly why these views are objectionable . |
| 17 | It encourages open communication , and learning about processes of living in mutually beneficial ways . |
| 18 | Thus what we should be looking for is a system of screening that is capable of picking out expeditiously all cases that require testing and not just a sample . |
| 19 | Sort of writing down as many steps as you can . |
| 20 | The future — and the hope of escaping yet more damaging legislation — rests on greater attention to the Council and greater respect for its findings . |
| 21 | The future — and the hope of escaping yet more damaging legislation — rests on greater attention to the Council and greater respect for its findings . |
| 22 | We have already illustrated ways in which the research on the effects of brain damage on mental processes had taken the form of defining increasingly more specific patterns of disorder . |
| 23 | Despite living only about 10 minutes from each other , the two have not met for 50 years . |
| 24 | WordPerfect is entirely owned by its top two executives , but is considering going public later this year or in 1994 . |
| 25 | In an industrialized urban area the job , especially in the northern authority , is essentially one of cleaning up heavily polluted rivers , but in rural areas , where there are fewer sources of pollution , field officers are more concerned with preserving high standards of water quality . |
| 26 | Generate and test only makes sense when we have some means of measuring how nearly each child C satisfies Goal-conditions . |
| 27 | I tell you what Kevin if you 'd done Europe I think you 'd of had , we 'd of had just as much trouble . |
| 28 | The accusation of going in too many directions at once , of increasing bureaucracy in the Ministry and of mixing the essential with the marginal has been one frequently voiced against Jack Lang . |
| 29 | You 're in danger of going too far this week . |
| 30 | We turned down the offer of researching exactly how many men we 'd get to 3,000 feet of urinals , but allowing a couple of feet for each one , 1,500 men would make Wembley the tops for discriminating against women . |