Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is easily the most important leg of the course , where a great deal of place changing can go on due to the huge differences in speed among sailors . |
| 2 | This urban base once distinguished these movements from such parties in Europe , although extreme-right phenomena there in the 1980s have ( with exceptions ) now taken on some of the distributional features of the British extreme right 's support . |
| 3 | Since some of the restrictions have been taken off , team members are beginning to take on some of the old supervisors tasks — requesting stores , requesting maintenance , in general , being more responsible . |
| 4 | Refereed by Zimbabwe 's World cup referee , Kingsley Went , Malaysia went down 14–10 after an entertaining game . |
| 5 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 6 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 7 | ‘ The club continues to run well with membership slightly down due to the lighter nights . |
| 8 | With a parallel interface all eight can be sent together with one bit going down each of the eight wires . |
| 9 | Chris Stanley , NACRO 's policy development officer , has been monitoring the Act 's impact on SSDs and is anxious to play down some of the recent media hype . |
| 10 | ONE OF the doughty pack leaders to emerge in the late 1940's from the Manchester scrum of ‘ palaeomagnetists ’ was S , Keith Runcorn — a former Cambridge engineer with an almost unhealthy liking for the rough and tumble of the rugby field , Keith Runcorn is now professor of physics , and geophysics supremo , at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne — and incidentally the president of the university 's rugby club , To honour Runcorn 's reaching the age of 60 , the university organised earlier this month a three-day conference on ‘ Magnetism , planetary rotation and convection in the Solar System ’ , Since the Second World War , geology has undergone conceptual upheavals as never before , The apparently ludicrous ideas proposed by Alfred Wegener in the 1920s , that the Earth 's continents were drifting around , have found solid ground , The evidence came from physicists inspired by wartime work on radar , by cosmic-ray research and the discovery that some rotating stars have a magnetic field , The physicists set themselves the task of measuring whether rotating bodies on Earth also produce magnetic fields , The eminent Patrick Maynard Blackett devised a highly sensitive magnetometer for this work , but finding that a spinning gold cylinder produced no magnetic field , turned his machine to measuring rock magnetism , A school of expertise concerned with ‘ fossilised magnetism ’ developed around him at Manchester and later at Imperial College , London , The fruits of such work inspired a reappraisal of continental drift and new theories to explain the mechanisms responsible for moving the continents , and later produced the foundations on which were forged the unifying concepts of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading , Runcorn applies an enormous enthusiasm to all that he takes on — as many past students and editors of various science journals can testify , His first notoriety came with his attempts to determine whether the Earth 's general magnetic field was related to the planet 's rotation , or related to some deep-seated phenomenon , To determine this he took his magnetometer down some of the deep Lancashire coal pits . |
| 11 | Yet there is a long way to go , particularly in breaking down some of the fixed images of early Anglo-Saxon society . |
| 12 | But it did break down some of the unbearable tension that had been building . |
| 13 | Whitby were knocked out of the Yorkshire Shield 7–4 by the visitors to their heavy pitch , Wibsey ( Bradford ) , while Knaresborough plunged to the heaviest defeat in the club 's nine-year history when they went down 57–0 to the newly-formed Hull and ER club . |
| 14 | Seven days before they had gone down 5-3 to the same opposition , despite playing the superior football . |
| 15 | As the first few overdubs are brought in much of the original idea can disappear . |
| 16 | Leftarm spinners Masood Anwaar and Leigh Beaumont , sent down 45 of the 55 overs in the afternoon . |
| 17 | The leader says put something of value down such as a five pound note and then matches it . |
| 18 | Steve Taylor , NUM branch delegate , said Mr Telford was protesting over allegations that British Coal was continuing to run down 10 of the 31 pits . |
| 19 | The government disagrees , pointing out that recent studies , including one by the World Bank , show that Zimbabwe could get along fine with a commercial farming industry half its current size . |
| 20 | The bowmen slipped backwards from tree to tree , fitting and shooting as they could , the lancers aimed for the men rather than the horses , and brought down three in the first onslaught . |
| 21 | There are people who have been brought in unconscious for no apparent reason , who have had car accidents and been cut free by the fire brigade and rushed in for emergency treatment following accidents . |
| 22 | Anyway , this mate of his and his wife — things went from bad to worse , seems he met this woman from Dundee who travelled down regular on the same train and one day he just Got Off with her and the upshot of the whole thing was a Dear-Jeannette-Letter from Sullom Voe . |
| 23 | Since the great period of railway closures of the 1950s and '60s it is , of course , now possible to walk along many of the former track beds and appreciate their impact on the landscape . |
| 24 | This effectively shut down many of the smaller mills , such as many of those along the Carrant Brook . |
| 25 | Now though the present owners are re-building the house and plan to pull down all of the existing part . |
| 26 | If you have not used something for literally years the chances are that it wo n't come in useful for a rainy day ( the hoarder 's excuse ) and that you probably wo n't ever use it . |
| 27 | The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
| 28 | Our newly expanded page area came in handy for the Financial Results Special — there are some big results to report . |
| 29 | Some sessions involve a heavy work-out , so a spare , dry karategi might come in handy for the second session . |
| 30 | She turned to see Sendei gulping down more of the pink drink . |