Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But my intention is to make money and I 'm doing that rather well with the WBO . ’ |
| 2 | The cultural and ideological influence of the Conservative government since 1979 has been considerable , articulated most clearly in the utterances of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 3 | I use a two-gang adjustable valve but this never stops stable long enough for the skimmer to work efficiently . |
| 4 | ‘ You can do that all right with a stew , ’ said Penelope . |
| 5 | ‘ Dr Latimer , I hope you 'll agree that your presence on the 614 so close to the time of the crime appears to be something of a coincidence ? ’ |
| 6 | We have an engagement at eight o'clock tonight at the Mercury Garden . ’ |
| 7 | How regrettable it is that so often in the marriages that we come across , those are the only promises that seem to be made , and the only mention of God within the family . |
| 8 | The peak of the student movement , in Europe as well as in the US , was reached in 1968 , marked most dramatically by the May revolt of the French students , which was supported briefly by a large part of the working-class movement . |
| 9 | Is this long enough for the evolution of an organism as complex as man ? |
| 10 | We discuss this more fully for the UK in Box 16–1 . |
| 11 | Either attempts can be made to ensure that corporate managers behave as profit-maximizers by making them responsive once again to the market ; or , alternatively , new life can be breathed into the legal model of the company so that managers are once again forced to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 12 | Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you . |
| 13 | The thing is you only do this probably once in a life time . |
| 14 | Now , in the context of a ‘ live ’ performance ( a very good one , at least ) , this need not matter unduly if the spirit of the music has been captured successfully ; but is this really enough for a recording ? |
| 15 | Animals that you have captured specially for testing should be set free immediately afterwards in the place from which they were taken . |
| 16 | For others , however , circumstances have unfortunately prevented more progress and this particularly so with the Children 's Traffic Club and the application for Urban Aid . |
| 17 | Susanna Wesley herself , mother of John and Charles , puts this plainly enough in a letter to John : |
| 18 | It was very high even just off the fairway , and a lot of players complained about it . |
| 19 | Children evidently realize this quite early in the process of language acquisition , and accept the fact that different words may refer to the same entity — e.g. , our dog , Fred , that wretched animal , and so on . |
| 20 | Mm was this quite often during the year , or was it just the once ? |
| 21 | Will not it be wrong yet again on the training and enterprise councils ? |
| 22 | In the process , they have also ensured that newspapers continue to remain unregulated yet firmly in the grip of private capital . |
| 23 | I did n't take this too seriously at the time . |
| 24 | For instance , the commonly-used coconut matting got muddy very quickly after a game and was hard to clean . |
| 25 | Did you see that tonight though on the T V about the , the ma er the English couple in er New Orleans ? |
| 26 | You might arrange for pay to be given out at a different time and check whether the trains are less crowded somewhat earlier in the afternoon . |
| 27 | But the ICM poll for the Press Association , conducted among 10,000 people and the most comprehensive so far in the campaign , made bleak reading for the backroom tacticians at Central Office . |
| 28 | I think it was probably the other day because erm the wa the ducks were swimming on the road at er six o'clock just on the road near the baths |
| 29 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 30 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |