Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 625–6 when Cwichelm , styled by Bede king of the West Saxons but perhaps more correctly thought of as a king in the upper Thames valley ( see above , pp. 48 ff. ) , sought to have Eadwine assassinated ; Eadwine 's retaliating attack , when he is said to have slain or subdued all those who had plotted against him ( HE 11 , 9 ) , confirms that he was reaching the height of his power by the mid-620s . |
| 2 | Virgin flesh was not so easily come upon in those days ; and a virgin garnished with terror was an unexpected breakfast treat after his long sleep . |
| 3 | It only remains to guide the interested reader to some other , more measured , introductions to the Lorenz equations , not so far referred to in this chapter . |
| 4 | ‘ St Patrick is already very well catered for at the Down County Museum and also by Newry and Mourne Council and especially at Navan Fort outside Armagh , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Calculators , on the other hand , are still not entirely approved of by some parents and teachers , even though our experience would suggest that an ability to use a calculator is a far more relevant skill for everyday life than almost any of the pencil-and-paper arithmetic taught in schools . |
| 6 | The Group 's largest and longest established operation is in oil-rich Kuwait , a small but strategically placed country at the top of what used to be known as the Persian gulf — now politically just referred to as the gulf . |
| 7 | Contrary to what was to happen in the modern period ( and still continues ) , the first objects of trade were not logs but what are sometimes rather dismissively referred to as ‘ minor forest products ’ . |
| 8 | She considered telephoning Laura , and Kitty , both of whom were long on sympathy and short on cash — so strange that Peter 's orthodox solicitor father should have left his widow quite as poorly provided for as Anna 's unconventional one had left Laura — and decided that it would be unfair . |