Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 2 | He travelled widely after graduating with a second-class BA ( ordinary degree ) in 1878 and spent a year as a stockman in Queensland , Australia . |
| 3 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 4 | However , this is not done where Ord 17 r 11 ( automatic directions ) applies , unless the case had been set down for hearing in the High Court before transfer or a request for a day for hearing to be fixed is made under Ord 17 , r 11(3) ( d ) . |
| 5 | Staying so close to the palace will enhance your enjoyment , enabling you to make many mini-trips in between reading about the extraordinary life of its court . |
| 6 | It was reported on April 8 that Michel Mokuba Bokulo Mena , who had been appointed in the Cabinet reshuffle on March 28 , had resigned as Minister of Institutional Reforms apparently after disagreeing with the Prime Minister . |
| 7 | There is a small harbour , and skeletons of boats decorate the stony beach , the road coming alongside after passing between the terraced cottages of the village . |
| 8 | Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week . |
| 9 | There was no question that he could have gone into some major productions and worked with some of the more notable directors ; he refused point blank , especially after seeing On a Clear Day . |
| 10 | But after an hour or so of trudging into the stiff wind , a slight feeling of despair crept over me . |
| 11 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 12 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 13 | He can not possibly have played better despite tiring in the second half of a patchy but exciting final . |
| 14 | The string spacing is far too narrow , not only on the fretboard but more especially with regard to the right hand . |
| 15 | Moreover , there were strong elements of continuity , especially with regard to the central organising significance of Christianity which from the early days of Christendom to the present has structured basic beliefs and formed the framework within which law and custom ( if not always behaviour ) have operated . |
| 16 | The strand of the overall Whitehouse philosophy that was referred to above , and which , perhaps , is only implicitly suggested by the two examples discussed , is the particularly vulnerable position which , she feels , young people occupy , especially with regard to the pernicious influences of the mass media . |
| 17 | Uncertainty exists as to the legal effect of the Protocol and Agreement , especially with regard to the special position of the UK . |
| 18 | Quite unprompted , Mr Cross related his experience of the place which tallied precisely with Peter Handford 's , especially with regard to the disused quarry on the Bath side of Winsor Hill tunnel . |
| 19 | The central concern was less with lobbying amongst the powerful , than with creating an irresistible tide of popular opinion that would force the politicians into appropriate action . |
| 20 | It is as if , for these youngsters , the space they share on the North Bank is a way of magically retrieving the sense of group solidarity and identification that once went along with living in a traditional working-class neighbourhood . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not satisfied with my works to date , and from now on I want to take a new path ’ , so Beethoven allegedly confessed not long before embarking on the three sonatas of Op. 31 , here introduced into the CD catalogue as a set played on a fortepiano ( by Derek Adlam after Anton Walter , Vienna ; Nannette Streicher , Vienna 1815 ) . |
| 22 | Only before embarking on a major expedition have I seen the tension surface in Andy . |
| 23 | The count found Držić a witty and entertaining companion , and Držić , a poor cleric , benefited greatly from sharing in the cosmopolitan life of his master . |
| 24 | I 'd only just come in from seeing to a sick sow — I 'm a pig farmer ; Mrs Langton here at Broom House knows me well . ’ |
| 25 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 26 | She ducked her head in , and tried to go deeper before making towards the fallen flare . |
| 27 | When he returned they lived together before marrying in a quiet register office ceremony in December 1986 . |
| 28 | If one looks at the international scene — as any university or special librarian must — the range of choice is further amplified , especially since publishing in the Third World is expanding very quickly . |
| 29 | It often takes ages for a pair to get down to spawning for the first time and if you were to separate them now it would be extremely difficult to get them back together again . |
| 30 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |