Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a slight drop in new construction orders in May , compared with April , there has been an overall nationwide upward tend in the five months since last December , according to the latest figures prepared exclusively for Chartered Builder by Bournemouth based Glenigan Limited . |
| 2 | Standing on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater , I watched the pastel purple of the Tanzanian dawn slowly change to a golden red . |
| 3 | They have been deliberately avoided by politicians who know they currently find little favour with the British people . |
| 4 | It 's the one right bang on the main road ? |
| 5 | In business , an employee near retirement age may well be given a job with a grand title in a department which has little influence in the overall scheme of things . |
| 6 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 7 | The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know . |
| 8 | In many cases this has involved rewording of Learning Outcomes but little change to the basic philosophy of the module . |
| 9 | After examining non-vocational adult education in England and Wales , this report suggested little change in the existing division of responsibility for adult education between LEAs , the university extra-mural departments and voluntary bodies such as the WEA . |
| 10 | Little change in the political map |
| 11 | There was , however , little change in the rigid separation of spheres between the male world of work and the world of home and family experienced by adult women . |
| 12 | On the other hand , sections from inflamed oesophageal mucosa contain little EGF in the capillary endothelium resulting in few EGF positive papillae . |
| 13 | Little knock on the right place … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Right place at the right time . |
| 15 | However , Hall ( 1982a ; 1982b ) hoped that higher-skilled and better-paid jobs would eventually Appear through the same processes that had driven countries such as Hong Kong , South Korea and Singapore from low-grade , low-paid economies into higher , if not always ‘ higher-tech ’ production . |
| 16 | It is often not appreciated , at least in the U.K. that the medical profession has had very little say in the major decisions about the design of the health services . |
| 17 | Public-sector contracts anyway only account for a small proportion of Olivetti 's sales , says Mr De Benedetti . |
| 18 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 19 | Potted shrimps alone remain as the sole representative of these products to retain something of its original nature , although a few smoked haddock pastes are beginning to appear on London restaurant menus . |
| 20 | ‘ The French , on the other hand , not only insist on a wide variety of fresh produce but demand that their chestnuts come from the Auvergne , their snails from Clermont , their frogs from Aurillac , capons from the Bresse , mutton from the Berry , asparagus from Lavris … . ’ |
| 21 | According to Fitzgerald and Sim ‘ there is not one crisis , rather a whole series , which taken together account for the parlous state of the prisons ’ ( 1992 : 5 ) . |
| 22 | Resentful at Alexander and fearful that the King might beget am heir by his new queen and so lose for a second time the opportunity to advance the claims of his own house ? |
| 23 | They naturally concentrate on the interesting bits , and , so , of course , do the police themselves … |
| 24 | It is an act of faith of most brain scientists , including , as must be obvious by now , this one , that an understanding of the brain will lead to an understanding of behaviour and of the processes that control and underpin behaviour , some of which are conscious and some unconscious , but which taken together correspond to the folk-psychological term ‘ mind ’ . |
| 25 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 26 | Has more yellow on bill than smaller Bewick 's Swan , reaching below nostril at an acute angle . |
| 27 | ‘ I only fly on the Russian Front . |
| 28 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 29 | hidden criticisms that only appear in the interpersonal context : the classic ‘ utopian plan ’ , ‘ not feasible ’ , ‘ without economic basis ’ |
| 30 | No , My Lords , I entirely disagree with the Noble Lord er furthermore as I 've already said we 're talking the builders site not the library in today 's question . |