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

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1 The impressions gained from the WHO collaborative studies on the relationship between maternal age and the capability of fetus to survive the early and intermediately period of gestation are supported by more reliable national data from a European country .
2 So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure , and no doubt it does me good .
3 A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) .
4 Marsha I 'm going along to the chip shop and I 'm going to McDonalds and get a drink , na , I 'm gon na have to stay , how much , how much the chips ? , sixty P and how much is milk shake ? , one pound , that 's one pound sixty and then money for sweets after school
5 On Oct. 5 the principal nationalist candidate Lennart Meri , Foreign Minister until March 1992 and subsequently ambassador to Finland , was elected President by the Parliament , the Riigikogu .
6 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 ) .
7 She taught English , mainly in teacher training colleges , becoming vice-principal of one and then Principal of Charlotte Mason College , Ambleside until 1970 .
8 In 1930 the Prince of Wales , later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor , visited the island .
9 Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs .
10 Chu Okongwu had been Minister of Finance until January 1990 and then Minister of Cabinet Affairs .
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