Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is only one type of personal family document which survives right through the last three centuries in really significant numbers . |
| 2 | There is much to be said for continuing the practice of reading to children right through the later primary years , letting them hear the cadences of book language and , where possible , letting them follow the text as well . |
| 3 | The selling franchise arrangement has operated quite successfully for the past eight years , and Argent Distributors have grown at a steady pace during this period , as can be seen from the sales turnover figures . |
| 4 | They live wild , occasionally returning to the park , and have bred successfully for the past six years . |
| 5 | [ That this House calls upon the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Minister of State for Overseas Development to grant Aid Trade Provision Cover and ECGD cover over three years from 1992 to enable Communication Supplies Ltd. to continue to export further System X telephone exchanges and ancillary equipment to Kenya , which they have done successfully for the past seven years ; and furthermore notes that the Kenyan Government considers this project as top of their list of priorities for trade with the United Kingdom , and the project will save and provide many thousands of jobs throughout the United Kingdom and will lead to repeat business for many years to come , and that if funding is not forthcoming the contract will be lost to the United Kingdom and awarded to either Japanese , French or Italian companies , all of whom have shown open interest . ] |
| 6 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 7 | We have put in an offer but it seems there is a vacuum somewhere between the two naval ministries . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 9 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 10 | I could see what went on through the two front windows despite the 4p off Whiskas stickers , and I have to admit I was impressed . |
| 11 | I told the stationer I 'd be back for my parcel , and wandered on through the cold sunny streets . |
| 12 | It was at about this time that the Duke of Devonshire created the splendid avenue of lime trees which started beside some large houses — Afton House ; Bolton House and Linden House — on the south side of Chiswick High Road , and extending down to the northern boundary of Chiswick House grounds , sweeping on through the magnificent wrought-iron gates , at the end of Hogarth Lane , and continuing through the gardens to the house . |
| 13 | It was the end of a trail which had had its beginnings in those first rumblings of Henry Fairlie against the Establishment and Malcolm Muggeridge against the Monarchy ; a trail that had led on through the Angry Young Men and all the resentments sown by Suez , through the heyday of affluence , through all the mounting impatience with convention , tradition and authority that had been marked by the teenage revolution and the CND and the New Morality , through the darkening landscape of security scandals and What 's Wrong With Britain and the rising aggression and bitterness of the satirists , in ever more violent momentum . |
| 14 | For mile after mile the car ran on through the shadowy rubber groves where the straight-trunked trees with herringbone scars and metal latex cups stretched unendingly into the distance on either side of the road . |
| 15 | None of the boreholes installed properly during the past 18 months has broken down . |
| 16 | Why , if big remains beautiful , have big companies performed so badly during the past two decades , especially in America and Britain ? |
| 17 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 18 | Fusion funding remains steady , but with the money now divided mostly between the two leading machines , the tokamak and mirror-fusion . |
| 19 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 20 | These animals have changed little during the 400 million years since they evolved , and still retain their strange eyes . |
| 21 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 22 | If it is to be a fish-only tank , then you can only stock 6″ of fish slowly during the first six months . |
| 23 | You do n't have to be a historian to know a pretty flower when you see one , and although this is not intended to be a text book — there is more than enough literature available to fulfil that function — I do suggest that your enjoyment of roses can be enhanced by knowing just a little about the many different kinds , and such matters as why they are cultivated in certain ways , why they are pruned , and so on — and to see a strange word , and know what it means ! |
| 24 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 25 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 27 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 28 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 29 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 30 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |