Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 If my theorising is correct , then the " Cenomanian transgression " was in part due to wearing down of the Hercynian and perhaps later ranges ( as in the western United States ) together with marginal sedimentation .
2 The reference is to the three cantons ( Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden ) which originally got together to form the Swiss Confederation , along with the fourth that soon joined them , Luzern .
3 I say , like I say I just just red er paint summat like , these are white these and just go down on the red and just up there and just up here , just get your displays
4 Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her .
5 It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me .
6 Rex glanced down at the billfold and then back to the screen .
7 Morse looked at her : looked at the piled-up hair above her wistful face ; looked down at the full and observably bra-less bosom ; looked down at the taut stretch of black stocking between the knee and the thigh of her crossed right leg .
8 He sat and watched the quill being borne along by the current and then leaning over as it tugged at the end of the swim .
9 ‘ Primitivism ’ the big show that addressed the relationship between the two a few years ago at the Museum of Modern Art got the debate off to a controversial and often acrimonious start .
10 You give a good firm aid that would have your youngster wandering gently off to the left and suddenly find yourself falling off the side because the old hand did a sharp left turn !
11 Patrick watched Chris setting off down the 10th and then cut across to the 11th green , which was quite close .
12 Whether this burning interest came from a transmigration from a previous existence I do not know , but it may have been sparked off by a small and relatively insignificant incident which occurred in the spring of 1929 .
13 There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) .
14 Would it hold up for the half-minute or so it would take me to drive across ?
15 The Reaver Knights are commonly made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses .
16 The Reaver Knights are made up of the wildest and most headstrong sons of the noble houses .
17 In this way , new requests for credit may run up against a powerful and undeniably sensible combination of background knowledge and personal experience which rules them out , even when the applicant whose personal circumstances ring these alarm bells would have been a satisfactory payer .
18 Thereafter , print quality was as good as any inkjet I 've seen — right up with the BJ-200 and slightly better than the DeskJet 500 .
19 Freeze-frame almost any moment in this visually striking piece and one would end up with an abstract and richly textured landscape evoking the bright southern light of Margarit 's native Spain .
20 vol 96. p 41 8 ) has now turned up in the normal as well as the tumour tissues of a bladder cancer patient .
21 The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills .
22 The existing LFA boundaries are based largely on a line drawn up in the 1940s and hardly modified since .
23 Chelmsford 's confidence was dented , a missing a chance to go one up on the 12th and then losing the next two holes as hope of taking the trophy back to the Widford clubhouse evaporated .
24 Author Alan , who was with the unit throughout its operational career , has collected and researched a series of fascinating contributions from unit members building up to a comprehensive and highly readable work .
25 The throat-constricting landscapes , the classical-statue cinematography , the orchestrated flesh-mangling , and the fly-blown soundtrack add up to a unique and hugely influential whole .
26 Thus the soignee appearance of Cresson and other French women politicians blazes a torch and tells others that , while everyone is mortal and while women may have many cards stacked against them , it is possible to face up to the worst as well as the best .
27 Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking .
28 Company boss Peter Johnson revealed that pre-tax profits are up by a third and also forecast a cracker of a year ahead .
29 The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents .
30 Our Charter of Rights , backed up by a complementary and democratically enforced bill of rights , will establish in law the specific rights of every citizen .
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