Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protection of the local kings , the O'Connors , was not strong enough for Clonmacnoise to withstand disastrous raids by the Norman English in the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | Use of the portagram alone for guidance eliminated these complications . |
| 3 | Most of us know enough about absentee cooking these days to work out such details for ourselves . |
| 4 | Teachers themselves will need to know enough about language to use this knowledge confidently . |
| 5 | Sparc laptop house RDI Computer Corp , San Diego , California has had a change of guard : start-up specialist , Roy Wright , has been brought in as president to run day-to-day operations , while co-founder , Rick Schrameck , remains chairman and CEO responsible for the company 's direction , strategic alliances and new product development . |
| 6 | Around 14 members in senior section but apathy apparent among oldest age group who will be asked to resign perhaps after Easter to allow certain juniors to move up . |
| 7 | Around 14 members in senior section but apathy apparent among oldest age group who will be asked to resign perhaps after Easter to allow certain juniors to move up . |
| 8 | And this was the the school master had a special class and he used to keep us in after school to have extra lessons . |
| 9 | Joint administrative receiver Murdoch McKillop said cuts were part of a scaling down of production to meet reduced demand . |
| 10 | Only with difficulty does this Pan-American champion yuppie regain his imagination and conquer his fear of flying . |
| 11 | ‘ These are available in 14 different tartans , some after real plaids , along with colour co-ordinated striped pottery which looks like yachting colours . ’ |
| 12 | Along with marketing to attract more customers , the management changes throughout the sector have required that senior academics transform themselves into planners , seeking to attract money towards their work , rather than relying on the previous expectation that it would fall like manna from the principal 's office . |
| 13 | It is certainly popular , but is only a ‘ must ’ for those happy with a bouncy bridge of wooden planks held together with rope suspended 80 feet above the sea . |
| 14 | Ciprofloxacin or cefotaxime , together with metronidazole to cover anaerobic organisms are current alternatives . |
| 15 | Or , if they have the skills , they simply ca n't be bothered to train hard enough in order to maximise that potential . |
| 16 | If he had consulted a Green candidate , he would have been told that even the other parties ' policies are not tough enough in theory let alone practice . |
| 17 | A table of prime numbers , selected so that they are not too near to a factor of ten , and close enough in value to allow any packing density to be selected within half of a percent , is given in Appendix 4 . |
| 18 | These were then collated and summarised by a planning group with copies made available for all in order to encourage further dialogue , debate and reflection at a second conversation the following evening . |
| 19 | As Selwyn had been founded to commemorate the great Bishop of Melanesia it seemed appropriate that the college should make Melanesia its special interest and perhaps in time raise enough money to pay one of its own men to go out and serve as priest and educationist in that diocese of so many islands . |
| 20 | From the traffic returns , it appears that the mean load per boat ( including empties ) is about 15 tons , and so in order to pass 36,000 tons ( 1906 figure ) 2,400 boats will need to ascend and descend . |
| 21 | While in his view Truth need not assume shape or form at any time , yet when it is made to do so in order to meet specific human needs it is called Iśvara or God and assumes a personal connotation . |
| 22 | The 1893 Act allowed institutions a Parliamentary grant per pupil , but only if the institution/asylum met the standards set by the periodic visits of Her Majesty 's Inspector , so in order to meet these standards and obtain their grants , schools had to improve on the conditions in which the pupils were taught . |
| 23 | So in order to produce 2400 kcals of chemical energy in the form of organic molecules , you would need anything from about 40 to 100 or more square metres of land in Britain , and somewhat less than this in the USA . |
| 24 | Geoffrey Howe 's plan was to increase taxes on petrol , alcohol and cigarettes ; to raise national insurance contributions ; and , worst of all , not to increase personal tax allowances , so in effect increasing personal taxation . |
| 25 | How religiously , if only in order to obviate neighbourly interference , the Darcian woman would observe contraceptive precautions ! |
| 26 | The Government needed control over the media , or to have that control in reserve , not only in order to prevent such support of minority interests but also to ensure that the vitally important class of entrepreneurs and middle-level professional executive people — whose loyalty was vital to the success of any government policy — should be won over to the cause or , at the very least , not be encouraged to oppose government policies . |
| 27 | Only in Champagne has this grape proved so successful . |
| 28 | Only in time did this portrait of an angst-ridden , emotionally harried man prove tellingly accurate . |
| 29 | She said she had not wanted to die but that she had taken the tablets to calm herself down in order to get some sleep . |
| 30 | Value engineering , as described in Chapter 7 , is a structured method of considering the functions and costs of a product together in order to provide overall improvement in value , providing benefits for both user and manufacturer . |