Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [verb] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , in effect , was reverting to Gaitskell 's ( and Bevan 's ) stance of 1959 and going multilateralist once again . |
| 2 | Accordingly , Barth regarded any theological concern with created and fallen nature apart from its re-creation in Jesus Christ as quite superfluous . |
| 3 | This meant a huge rise of £1¼ billion in public-sector wage settlements in 1979–80 and drove inflation up far higher than the Callaghan government had ever done previously . |
| 4 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 5 | Other indirect information can be derived from the report of the formidable Report Commission on Canals and Inland Navigations , appointed in 1906 and taking evidence over three years . |
| 6 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks among the warring Unix camps , which appear to be being sponsored by Unix International Inc , says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp with Windows NT , the initiative still lacks the compulsion that galvanised the part of the industry — led by those that saw Unix primarily as a threat — to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |