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

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1 It sold dollars and European currency units for pounds in a determined fashion to counter heavy selling , which briefly pushed the pound down below DM2.95 for the first time since August 1987 .
2 Revised GDP figures show that growth slowed in the first quarter of 1993 to an annual rate of only 0.9% , down from 4.7% in the previous quarter .
3 Three days after the Outlook was published , however , new figures showed that America 's GDP growth slowed to an annual rate of only 1.8% in the first quarter of 1993 , down from 4.7% in the fourth quarter .
4 The Dublin-based liquid petroleum gas company , Flogas , has reported full year pre-tax profits of IR£6.52m , down from IR£7.16m in the previous year .
5 ‘ Dalglish is the first ex-Liverpool manager to return to Anfield in over 70yearsscharge of a new Dalglish 's decision to abandon the club in the run-in to the 1990-91 season still rankles with many around Merseyside , but Souness insists that should not affect the warmth of his reception , saying : ‘ Kenny should be remembered as the greatest player this club has had and as a successful manager .
6 Overall , the value of tobacco , accounting for 60 per cent of exports in 1989 , was K362,000,000 , down by K24,000,000 from the 1988 level .
7 covered over with sn with a few feet of snow .
8 We would want this to be seen logically , through approval of the structure plan , to be taken up in r in the relevant local plan , and for that relevant local plan to then sort out competing claims from prospective developments , in mu in much the same sort of exercise as we 've seen in the structure plan but obviously in a more detailed way .
9 I 'd like to well , number one I 'm an Arsenal fan , but I 'd like to speak up on er on the tragic loss yesterday .
10 Certain specifications allow the use of High , Expanded , or Extended memory , but MS-DOS 5 leaves you with up to 621K of the original 640K to use and programs that require more than this are more complex than a new PC owner should initially be concerned with .
11 They have been paying ridiculous rents of up to DM120 for the little decent office space that now exists in eastern Berlin — about twice as much as they would pay for similar space in the western part of the city .
12 It offers from 63Gb to 283Gb of unattended capacity , and up to 756Gb with the 36-track upgrade and ECart support , using the Memorex Telex 5450 cartridge tape drive and controller .
13 The 7693 Disk Array offers up to 90Gb in a single frame and ships at the end of next month .
14 The new DAS 2000 disk array subsystem stores up to 24Gb in a single subsystem .
15 The new DAS 2000 disk array subsystem stores up to 24Gb in a single subsystem .
16 Maybe , though , Scotland will move Derek Turnbull up to No1 on the Welsh throw ‘ to do an Alan Watt . ’
17 Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers .
18 Its GDP crept up by 0.2% in the first quarter of 1993 , a rise of 0.6% on the first quarter of 1992 ; and its retail sales quickened to a 12-month increase of 4.1% in March .
19 Last year , attendances at Flint of 65,931 were eight percent down on the previous year , while Holywell 's at a record 123,973 were up by 3.4pc on the previous year .
20 Honda bows out of F1 on a winning note
21 We have all come out with er with the worst er scenario ever er in the er democratic history of Pakistan .
22 In verse fourteen and fifteen , Jesus uses an illustration that Nicodemus would have been very familiar with , it was back in th in the ancient history of the nation of Israel , when they were wandering through the wilderness and he says , just as Moses a , way back there on that occasion lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , there had been this plague , if if you have plagues of serpent , there had been this plague of serpents , and they 'd bitten the people and they were dying like flies and Moses comes to God , he says what are you gon na do ?
23 In addition , a G+A Maxam-Gilbert sequencing reaction ( 35 ) was carried out on 4ng of the particular end-labelled probe used in each DNase I footprinting experiment to provide a sequencing ladder for orientation of the footprint .
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