Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art construction in all its forms is simply the choosing of separate or possibly groups of atoms and molecules from diverse existing structures and re-grouping them with mental science . |
| 2 | UA 1 is a collaboration of 100 or so physicists from Europe and the US , led by Alan Astbury from the UK 's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and Carlo Rubbia from CERN . |
| 3 | Much of the material has been lent by the Terra Foundation for the Arts and consists of ninety or so paintings by William Merrit Chase , William Leroy Metcalf , Frederick C. Frieseke , John Singer Sargent , Theodore Robinson , Childe Hassam , Mary Cassatt , Whistler and Winslow Homer . |
| 4 | Aileron forces are fine at low speeds , but as the IAS increases they get heavier , despite their balance tabs , until at 250 knots , using one 's biceps most efficiently , one can just achieve an acceptable roll-rate of sixty or so degrees per second to the left , while backhanded right rolls are truly slow rolls . |
| 5 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 6 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
| 7 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
| 8 | She taught English , mainly in teacher training colleges , becoming vice-principal of one and then Principal of Charlotte Mason College , Ambleside until 1970 . |
| 9 | Scrambling the whole of its release schedule of 15 or so films into a sublimely muddled montage of fast edits and visual ‘ high 's , it 's incomprehensible but hypnotic . |
| 10 | In a centre of twenty or so pupils with three or four teaching staff , heads have tremendous influence even where , as at the Victoria Centre , they espouse democratic principles . |
| 11 | Farmers can use it only to graze sheep , in flocks of 200 or so ewes with their lambs in spring . |
| 12 | The 14 Felixstowe club members averaged 14 oz per man over the two legs to the average of four and half oz for the six Clacton members to take the cup . |
| 13 | When you start is to do a thing , put that mallet down like that and then line up the which you need to go . |
| 14 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 15 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 16 | Quite an impressive sight , we may suppose , as she pitched and tossed in full sail across the Atlantic with fifteen or so mariners on board . |
| 17 | Accordingly , with 15 or so investments on his books , he stresses : ‘ It 's not the sort of job you can switch off from . |
| 18 | Then , instead of shaping at the extreme neck edge , or within a few stitches of a fully fashioned neck shaping , work the cable pattern , with two or so stitches between it and the neck edge and work the neck shaping within the cable pattern and the remaining stocking stitch of the shoulder edge . |
| 19 | Hungary 's trade with the Soviet Union accounted for 30% of total trade in 1980 but about 20% in 1990 . |
| 20 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
| 21 | The maximum number of new shares which may be issued under the schemes is restricted to 5% of the issued ordinary share capital over the first five years ending in 1991 and thereafter 3% over any three year period . |
| 22 | He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 . |
| 23 | Some Conservatives , astonishingly enough , had even visualized the return to the Treasury of Roy Jenkins , a Labour minister until 1976 and now President of the European Commission in Brussels . |
| 24 | His son of the first marriage , Thomas Bowen Kitchin , apprenticed to his father in 1754 and also hydrographer to the king , had already inherited the stock-in-trade . |
| 25 | This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another . |
| 26 | And then John at teatime , the football from seven and then John from ten till midnight , on the county 's favourite radio station , it 's B B C Radio Nottingham at two o'clock . |
| 27 | Some 30pc of them have switched to Labour and around 8pc to the Tories . |
| 28 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 29 | Under Labour , the best example is Denis Healey who was Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and then Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 . |
| 30 | As long as the volume of work undertaken by house-building firms is dependent either upon local authority contracts or upon the doling out at yearly or half-yearly intervals of a meagre number of individual licences , so long will increased productivity , and the gearing to it of the output of the building materials industry , be impossible . |