Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This as far as this is my personal opinion as far as that claim is concerned , that that is totally and utterly valid . |
| 2 | He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned . |
| 3 | In fact , the Princess of Wales — a woman Selina is often compared with — must wish she was able to keep the lid on her private life as tightly as Selina has . |
| 4 | By 1910 the equivalent unit in the Russian foreign ministry was scrutinising more than 150 Russian and foreign newspapers , while even the Ottoman empire had equipped its foreign ministry as early as 1869 with a rudimentary press office whose duties included monitoring the foreign-language papers published on Turkish soil . |
| 5 | Carol , who has learned to manage her meagre budget as carefully as any accountant , exemplifies the deeper problem of Easterhouse behind the unemployment , said to be 30 per cent , but much higher when the unemployed 16- to 18-year-olds , those on invalidity benefit and people who do not register for non-existent work are taken into account . |
| 6 | Carefully planning the cheapest air fares , allocating her meagre budget as sparingly as possible on food and accommodation , she travelled the world and took on the best . |
| 7 | The sovereign is under a constitutional duty to accept the advice of her ministers tendered through her chief minister so long as they command her confidence — so long , that is , as they command a majority in Parliament . |
| 8 | Even if the male is not ready to spawn and chases him away , She swims in this fashion while being pursued , and returns to her chosen mate as soon as possible . |
| 9 | The distinction here is between two very distinct schools of harpsichord-making ; a tradition carried on by native craftsmen who flourished during the first 25 years of the 18th century and an imported tradition initiated by Hermann Tabel that displaced its native rival as effectively as a cuckoo might take charge in a sparrow 's nest . |
| 10 | This suggests that the DNA structure relaxes back to its native form more slowly than the dissociation of the drug . |
| 11 | Even DEC may find that it may need to hang on to its V.3.2-level Ultrix rather longer than it intended : it says that so far about 500 of the 3,000 Ultrix applications are being converted for OSF/1 , which does n't sound like unbounded enthusiasm on the part of the industry . |
| 12 | It was suggested that the authorities tried to manipulate aggregate demand — primarily through fiscal policy — in order to achieve their desired combination of economic objectives but , because of the lags mentioned earlier , such policies exerted their full effect much later when economic conditions had changed as a result of the fluctuations in the business cycle . |
| 13 | Most researchers agree that the rise in greenhouse gases will reach the equivalent of doubling the carbon dioxide concentration from its pre-industrial value as early as the 2030s . |
| 14 | Although married women have won rights to benefit which are not affected by their marital status as directly as in the recent past , more women are being pushed beyond the reaches of the scheme altogether . |
| 15 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 16 | It is important to get your performers to hold the mike in a firm grip and to keep it and its connecting cable as still as possible while recording is in progress . |
| 17 | So it is to most fish 's advantage to grow to their maximum size as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | There is a simple reason for its relative anonymity As far as can be ascertained the future of Cotherstone cheese appears to be in the hands of one lady , And she refuses absolutely to communicate with the media . |
| 19 | Shirley followed her flying form as fast as she could . |
| 20 | ‘ The greatest thing is telling him there is no point going to his mainstream school any longer if he is not going to get around and that he 'll have to go to a special school — at which point he explodes in terror and starts to make special efforts . |
| 21 | Weaver ran through the gap between the houses , waving his right hand almost uselessly as he snapped off a second shot at Bodie . |
| 22 | By English law , Michael Joyce lost his British nationality as completely as though he had never possessed it . |
| 23 | Before he left Persia in February 1921 , Ironside told Reza Khan that the British would not oppose his seizing power so long as the reigning Qajar Shah was not actually deposed . |
| 24 | Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper . |
| 25 | Carr started to bleed slightly above his left eye as early as the second round , and he was twice in danger of being disqualified for using his head rather than his fists . |
| 26 | The new shithouse clerk , a small , wiry Liverpudlian , was taking his new appointment very seriously when I arrived at his canvasstructured place of work . |
| 27 | This might seem a somewhat unusual thing to do , but if Mr Cleese can resurrect his dead mother as frequently as he does his dead parrot then she will have a busy afterlife . |
| 28 | Though an individual pupil may be in his fourth-year class as far as the administration of the school goes , and as far as concerns his social activities or his out-of-school interests , the school must be prepared for him to go off and study the syllabus required for his graded tests alongside people who are not in his own year . |
| 29 | Raise your left knee as far as possible , and raise your right elbow to meet it , Return to the flat position then raise your right knee as far as possible , and raise your left elbow to meet it . |
| 30 | For Christie 's , such sales help raise our European profile as well as assert London as an international centre of the art market . |