Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Its aim is to introduce people who are 50 or over to a whole new range of activities and opportunities so they can realise and put into practice their own particular talents . |
2 | In the mid-1950s only a few of the simpler , standard power stations were beginning commissioning three to three-and-a-half years after the start of work on site , but the BEA failed to get their average performance near to that of their best or up to the similar three-year timings achieved by the Atomic Energy Authority in developing their smaller ( but more challenging ) demonstration nuclear power plants . |
3 | She struck out forcefully towards Alexander , which seemed natural , since the boat at anchor was the only thing to swim towards or away from or around on the flat Mediterranean . |
4 | Such grants are based on the Statute of Monopolies 1623 , which , while in general prohibiting the grant of monopolies , made an exception in favour of patents ‘ for the term of fourteen years or under for the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within the realm to the true and first inventor or inventors of such manufactures , which others at the time of making such letters patent and grants shall not use ’ . |
5 | The overwhelming evidence from research studies into NHS decision-making , summarised by Harrison , demonstrates that up to the early 1980s the culture of NHS management was shaped by their relatively weak position vis-à-vis doctors ( Harrison 1988 ) . |
6 | Time to first print is roughly 45 seconds and multi-copy printing pulls that up to the rated 6 pages per minute claimed for the unit . |
7 | He turned left in the village of Wanswell and blasted the bike over the slight pitch and on into the twisty overgrown lanes that led to the village of Purton . |
8 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
9 | We pedalled eastwards , first past the new Royal Palace — a weird , menacing building with bats hanging in the trees like handbags — and on to the great domed stupa , or Buddhist monument , of Bodnath . |
10 | The biggest surprise here is that the TBM 700 seems to shrink into a much smaller and lighter aircraft when flown below ninety knots and down to the gear-down/flaps-down 61-knot stall speed . |
11 | On this robust eminence you can walk , climb about on the slopes or the scree , or look in amazement across at the Pic du Midi d'Ossau and down into the pale green waters of the Lac de Fabréges in its harsh , glaciated valley directly below . |
12 | His hands , sliding from her hair to her neck and down inside the filmy black blouse , denied the imputation . |
13 | Tammuz was still looking him up and down like a roving automatic eye . |
14 | ‘ My housekeeper will know where the first-aid equipment is , ’ he clipped , and piloted her through a passageway , and in through a solid wooden door . |
15 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
16 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
17 | We trooped off round the back of the church and up into a small raised garden where there were indeed some benches . |
18 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
19 | For operations above this and up to the new five metre maximum , the installer simply removes a push-fit restrictor from the appliance . |
20 | The directors are presently authorised to allot shares up to a maximum nominal amount of £114,668,095 and to allot equity securities for cash in connection with a rights issue and up to an aggregate nominal amount of £9,350,000 , without applying statutory pre-emption rights . |
21 | Item 9 on the agenda of the Annual General Meeting is a special resolution renewing the Board 's authority to allot equity securities for cash in connection with a rights issue and up to an aggregate nominal value of £9,350,000 , such authority to expire fifteen months from the date of the passing of the resolution or on the date of the Annual General Meeting in 1994 , if earlier . |
22 | She crept downstairs , through the kitchen and out into the little back garden . |
23 | They are structured in such a way that while we feel our way visually into the space suggested by the subject our eyes are simultaneously being run up the picture by short thrusts in and out of a limited pictorial depth . |
24 | right , its almost definite British come under fire but it does seem that the para 's did kill erm out of , out of the thirteen , only one had any I R A links , he was a member of the , the I R A erm , and out of the remaining twelve only three of them might of fired a gun , you know , they leg or the hands , by the side , by the gun |
25 | The 11-year-old member of Wensleydale Smokebusters from Redmire will travel in style from Darlington to York and back on the new smoke-free train on Friday . |
26 | The lights came up and we were not in that magic world beyond the screen but back in the familiar tawdry surroundings of Sneinton , Notts . |
27 | Cork stoppers were certainly common by the second half of the 17th century , though up to the early 18th century the really smart alternative was the glass stopper , which had to be ground to fit each individual hand-blown bottle . |