Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 2 | With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 4 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 5 | The man had n't been out of the top four since 1980 but he did n't have the luck to win a title — in ‘ 86 he lost the crown when his helmet strap came undone . |
| 6 | Tim , who has never been out of the top two in the competition in the last six years , then went on to clinch an exciting final by a narrow margin . |
| 7 | Duncan Shearer and Mixu Paateleinen expected to lead the attack alongside Eoin Jess , the home fans should be in for an exciting ninety minutes . |
| 8 | Although direct debits and cash dispenser machines had been around since the late 1960s , promotion campaigns made them farmore popular during the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | The RSM brought everyone to attention , ‘ By the right , quick march , ’ barked the Officer and we were off to a jaunty 6–8 time , Blue Bonnets Over the Border , as I got under way . |
| 10 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 11 | INTERNATIONAL flanker Denis McBride is in for a busy 12 months following his confirmation as Malone skipper for a second consecutive season . |
| 12 | Yet only 30 miles or so away the " Purbeckian " is down to a mere 3 feet , with no obvious breaks , on the French cliffs near Boulogne . |
| 13 | Matthew Evans was to split his role and that the hunt was on for a new m.d. , rumours that Mr Evans was ‘ bailing out ’ and the company was on the block were fanned by the trade 's more supportive friends at Private Eye and pounced on by publishers overexcited at the prospect of getting their hands on , if not the company , then at least some of its authors . |
| 14 | By late August 1982 , with the start of Iraqi attacks on Kharg Island ( which in Iran 's peak production years in the 1970s handled nearly all the country 's export volume ) , the volume was down to a meagre 700,000 b/d from 1.8 million the preceding month . |
| 15 | Marjorie Bousfield was up against the national fours championship rink and lost 17–28 , Dulcie Harbin lost 25–14 , while Pearl Wright , after drawing 9–9 at ten ends , went 22–15 . |
| 16 | Growth was back at a remarkable six per cent in 1968 , inflation remained low and the budget was in healthy surplus by 1969 . |
| 17 | That was back in the early sixties . |
| 18 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 19 | After lunch , Graham Lloyd reached 34 before falling to Parsona , but Wasim Akram hit only five and Mike Matkinson was out for a lively 16 . |
| 20 | No one who was around in the late 1960s can have avoided the flood of changes which swept through the dress , sexual codes , language , food styles , cinema , literature , music , and other generative aspects of the new counter-culture . |