Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1939 4 million manual workers and another 4 million or so non-manual workers were receiving annual holiday pay , going on for half of the total occupied population . |
| 2 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 3 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 4 | But just as the kettle was coming to the boil a black cloud billowed in through one of the open windows and enveloped the entire tea party . |
| 5 | It would certainly be possible for a jackdaw to get in through any of the eight window openings , but then I thought , No . |
| 6 | Apart from a general limitation relating to development which ‘ requires or involves the formation , laying out or material widening of a means of access to an existing highway which is a trunk or classified road or creates an obstruction to the view of persons using any highway by vehicular traffic at or near any bend , corner , junction or intersection so as to be likely to cause danger to such persons , particular conditions are also laid down for each of the different classes of development listed . |
| 7 | This game ; this day will go down as one of the blackest . |
| 8 | THE 138th Boat Race will go down as one of the classic encounters in the long history of the event . |
| 9 | It 'll go down as one of the famous unsolved crimes of history . ’ |
| 10 | The results from the unusual condition fell in between those from the other two conditions . |
| 11 | She did n't mind if he said nothing at all , as long as they could walk along like this under a starlit sky , arm in arm forever . |
| 12 | For instance , sitting down with some of the battered wives , she leaned across the table , chin on hand , asking each woman in turn : ‘ How long can you stay here ? |
| 13 | He dropped ice into his glass and crossed to sink down into one of the nearby sofas . |
| 14 | Gaining the peaceful emptiness of her mother 's large sitting-room , with its windows overlooking the spectacular view over the water to Fort St Angelo , she sank down into one of the green chintz sofas and took stock of herself . |
| 15 | Wells , who worked for Geary 's at 22 Cross Street , almost opposite Oliver 's tobacconist , had described a man in the near vicinity whose description did not completely tie in with many of the other witnesses . |
| 16 | The potential meaning of to with the infinitive can therefore be diagrammed in the following manner : The potential meaning of to as described above fits in with that of the bare infinitive in the following very simple way : the latter evokes that which defines the end-point of the movement denoted by to . |
| 17 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 18 | He will fight Jose Ribalta , a 28-year-old Cuban American , who has been in with some of the best heavyweights . |
| 19 | to fit in with some of the other things that we . |
| 20 | Along with many of the other development corporations , the skills and experience in creating new communities have been dispersed — a fact that always amazes foreign visitors who look on British new towns as one of the major achievements of post-war planning anywhere in the world . |
| 21 | Along with many of the other detainees Teo made a televised " confession " of her role in the conspiracy and was released after four months in detention . |
| 22 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 23 | But unknown to him the fate of Leeds City was no longer in his hands ; it was being decided , along with that of every other club in the country , by a totally unrelated event in a faraway city in Eastern Europe . |
| 24 | Her idol is the 1920s artist Varvara Stepanova , whose clothes designs she has reconstructed for museums and whose portrait , along with that of the revolutionary poet Mayakovsky , she has stitched on to another of her own red dresses . |
| 25 | Yes I 'd call that a hun I 'd go along with that at a hundred and five . |
| 26 | One of the rebel leaders , former Maj. Hugo Abete , who along with several of the other mutineers had also been pardoned by Menem for involvement in previous rebellions , claimed that as they still recognised Menem as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces their action could not be described as a " coup " . |
| 27 | The miller 's house stands adjacent to the three-storey mill , but the original water wheel has been removed , a replica in its place , along with most of the original machinery . |
| 28 | The funds from the raffle , along with those from the facing evening , cricket day , and auction evening are expected to reach £75 , OOO . |
| 29 | The fishermen 's quarter is down by the quayside , along with some of the best seafood restaurants . |
| 30 | He , along with some of the older nakodas , had divined through omens and astrological portents that this was the last auspicious day for embarking on the seasonal voyage . |