Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That apart , we should bear in mind that roses vary greatly in their ability to bloom more or less continuously after the first flush . |
| 2 | Thereafter the conviction rate steadily increased , reaching twenty-five per cent or more early in the twentieth century . |
| 3 | Transnational capitalist classes do not identify with any foreign country in particular , or even necessarily with the First World , or the white world , or the Western world . |
| 4 | Domesday Book shows that way back in the eleventh century Pocklington was the centre of a large royal manor containing a church and three water mills and that its inhabitants included fifteen burgesses . |
| 5 | We have met that very well in the first nine months of the system . |
| 6 | Yet the transmission of precious substances in the form of jewellery or other objects of display has at all times and most notably during the last five millennia served the same purpose the world over , that of signalling and enhancing status . |
| 7 | Wherever we see an ancient town church without a churchyard , we may well suspect that the town is the daughter of some mother village near by — now completely overshadowed by its offspring — and that it came into existence at a comparatively late date , since the Norman Conquest anyway , and most probably in the twelfth or thirteenth century . |
| 8 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 9 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 10 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 11 | All lighting circuits are radial ones — that is one cable goes from the fuseway in the consumer unit to the first light position , and then on to the second , and so on to the last on the circuit . |
| 12 | If you are fitting several lights ( downlighters or eyeball spots , say ) , run this cable to the nearest fitting , and then run cable from this to the next nearest , and so on to the last . |
| 13 | And so on until the Last Day , when it was always : ‘ How much did he leave , what was he worth ? ’ |
| 14 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 15 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 16 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 17 | With great daring Philip actually wrote in his third Report that occupation of the villa ‘ certainly lasted until the very end of the fourth century , and possibly well into the fifth century ’ ( p. 60 ) . |
| 18 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 19 | There are two pillars to this account : the emergence in the post-war period , and more particularly in the last two decades , of a mass social layer analysable under the rubric of a new middle class — though internally much differentiated as well as distinct from a traditional petite bourgeoisie in respect of its structured ‘ overconsumptionism ’ . |
| 20 | Work on the former group has shown that in the century between 1341 and 1440 , and more markedly in the last three-quarters of this period , the replacement rate for males was clearly below one , but rose sharply by the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( 75 , p.27 ) . |
| 21 | Toward the end of the nineteenth century and more especially in the twentieth , the responsibilities of government expanded . |
| 22 | Paisley has gone on record time after time to condemn the assassination of Catholics and has insisted that the potential violence represented by the old Protestant Volunteers and more recently by the Third Force should only be exercised in a defensive manner and in the event of a complete breakdown of law and order . |
| 23 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 24 | After those cuts , trading profits of the communications division were more than double those in the first half year and marginally ahead of the second half of last year as business held up . |
| 25 | With my own two children , I felt cheerful and reasonably well during the first pregnancy ; the bonding process with the baby was immediate and passionate , but nine months later I was seeking medical help for exhaustion . |
| 26 | I thought at first that he was merely taking an open-air path to his own bedroom , but he went straight past the open door at the end of his sleeping car , and straight on past the next car also . |
| 27 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 28 | But those trips will probably be few and far between over the next two years since his already groaning workload was increased still further last month when he took over from Hugh Collum , finance director of SmithKline Beecham , as chairman of the 100 Group of finance directors . |
| 29 | In one of heavyweight boxing 's most distinguished nights , Bowe had to tear the crown from a champion who refused to accept the inevitability of defeat even when he was knocked down and seemingly out in the 11th round of a brilliant fight . |
| 30 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |