Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Erm so I think we 've got ta look at that right across the board though , we 've got ta know that in actual fact we 're covering it temporarily , erm or are n't we covering it temporarily .
2 Not forgetting in that most of the mines then , at that particular time , were nearly all privately owned .
3 No everybody keeps themselves to themselves , I think which is a shame really , cos erm I think they do that all over the country anyway , most of them , they keep themselves to themselves .
4 Well it is like that all over the country though in n it ?
5 Mm do n't scoot that all over the bedroom now .
6 Two right so on the bottom now we 've just got one times one which is one and on the top we 've got one times twelve times two what does that come to ?
7 Here the notion of speaker-meaning is best explicated , once again , by reference to Grice 's concept of meaning-nn , for we are interested only in the inferences overtly and intentionally conveyed .
8 All that is clear enough from the recordings already available , and even those made in Mravinsky 's eighties retain an Ancient Mariner-like , spellbinding quality .
9 It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that any Member to whom Shares are offered in accordance with this Article shall be at liberty to accept some only of the Shares so offered .
10 It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that any Member to whom Shares are offered in accordance with this Article shall be at liberty to accept some only of the Shares so offered .
11 The attitude to unmarried mothers is very different now from a generation ago , but it is still a tragedy for most families if a schoolgirl daughter becomes pregnant .
12 The lengthy obituaries which he earned in the British press deserve to completed now by the publication as soon as possible of his memoirs , on which he was working to the last .
13 I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion
14 Urine was collected in refrigerated containers over a 24 hour period , starting between 10 and 12 am on the day before blood sampling .
15 I 've seen pensioners waiting outside in the rain and it 's even worse for those further ahead in the line inside who are being subjected to those dreadful video adverts while they wait .
16 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
17 Are people who work till 10 o'clock in the evening more energetic than those who stop at 5 o'clock ?
18 As I said before a bus was on a certain route number , say you had one Witton what was had now and then , well that that ran from six o'clock in the morning perhaps till eleven o'clock at night .
19 They were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning right , and Margot
20 It was possible to imagine that the sun was an expression of a force that was sick already of a day just barely started .
21 A head-complement construction , on the other hand , is typically not reducible syntactically to the head alone : the complement may be obligatory , like the cat in Arthur stroked the cat ; or , if it is omissible , it may be latent , like the direct object in John is watching .
22 The sound is acceptable enough ; but I do wish that companies which release older recordings like this would spend just a little more ( what would it cost ? ) to accompany them with notes worthy even of the music as slight as this .
23 Yeah Di Diane was off sick earlier in the week so
24 It is not unusual therefore for the contract expressly to deal with the time for payment and the time for delivery but to be silent about the time of the transfer of property .
25 This may be due partly to the need consciously to establish common cultural references in a pluralistic society , whereas the historically narrow class base of British higher education meant that a lot of the cultural references could be taken for granted ; the Robbins ( 1963 , p. 7 ) reference to the ‘ transmission of a common culture and common standards of citizenship ’ was perhaps a sign that this cultural assumption was finally breaking down under the pressure of expansion and democratization .
26 If that were so , one accused might be guilty on the basis of concert but the other could be guilty also on the basis only of his own actings .
27 They were subsisted on primitive versions of the ‘ store food ’ that wrecks the health of the dispossessed urban poor all over the world today : white bread and flour , white sugar and fat , some salted meat or fish , pitifully little fresh food .
28 The rest of us were herded all together in the room opposite .
29 In practice , however , from about 5 o'clock in the morning onwards changes occur that can not be explained in this way .
30 Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day .
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