Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ages tend to be entered initially as six , seven or eight mainly with a view to achieving an acceptable age of completion for secondary entry . |
| 2 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 3 | It were six Five or six o'clock in the morning I think I arrived in Aberdeen at six o'clock . |
| 4 | The lower foot is usually placed at about 2 o'clock or 10 o'clock to the slope . |
| 5 | Normally , the Italian is one of the two or three best in the world at the latter event and this opening race will gauge her recovery . |
| 6 | He thinks nothing of staying up till two or three o'clock in the morning in casinos , although I tell him it 's very , very bad for one 's constitution to have irregular hours . |
| 7 | The poor chap 's having to get up at two or three o'clock in the morning , this is being paid for it . |
| 8 | I usually watch it about two or three o'clock in the morning . |
| 9 | They are , I mean there 's only usually two or three there at a time , but you see it 's all bricking at the present |
| 10 | In all cases , remember that the information you find is interesting or valuable only to the extent that you can put it to relevant use in your essay ; facts do not come with fixed , off-the-peg significance . |
| 11 | ‘ It now happens at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning . |
| 12 | And where would the trigger for worldwide revolution come from — advanced economies or those still in the process of industrialization ? |
| 13 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 14 | We rode hard all night and it was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning when we reached Strelsau . |
| 15 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |
| 16 | Cherry reds polish — brown , tan or red all over the boot , then black smeared in the creases — to antique it up ! |
| 17 | or sprawling lumpily beside the road |
| 18 | ‘ a condition contained in debentures … is not invalid by reason only that the debentures are thereby made irredeemable or redeemable only on the happening of a contingency ( however remote ) or on the expiration of a period ( however long ) any rule of equity to the contrary notwithstanding . ’ |
| 19 | Virtues are essentially qualities of character which are useful or agreeable either to the agent or others . |
| 20 | Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ . |
| 21 | On Fridays we 'd often go to the Royal College of Art where they used to have these great shows which went on till three or four o'clock in the morning . |
| 22 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ After all , Gav , I can just stay up till your drinking pals have decided to head home , or Norris 's card school chums finally drag themselves away , or crash out and snore on the Richter scale , whatever ; the fun rarely extends beyond three or four o'clock in the morning … why , that would leave me a good four or five hours ’ sleep before an early lecture . ’ |
| 24 | Males arrive on the breeding grounds a day or two ahead of the females and set up territories . |
| 25 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 26 | Only a day or two ago in The Times , a high academic figure was complaining that ‘ the nature of the demand for education , at least over the next few years , seems unlikely to correspond with any precision to the national need for more scientists and technologists ’ . |
| 27 | I admired the speech of the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) , one of the more distinguished orators in the House , against whom I debated only a week or two ago in the Oxford Union . |
| 28 | If there is n't a false cornice or cove , form one by painting a stripe or two immediately under the ceiling . |
| 29 | " Saigon has a twin city , Cholon , a mile or two away across the plain — that 's where they 're making for . |
| 30 | Then plan a week or two away from the village in order to catch up with some of those desk jobs that are hanging over your head . |