Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Further those who managed to survive the first university term did reasonably well but did not excel .
2 Favourite Silver Wizard ran too freely and Willie Carson said : ‘ He 's gone over the top . ’
3 The first spin-off effect arises quite simply because of the difficulty of defining exactly what is a package holiday or tour .
4 In this way men continue to have remarkably cheap servants and capitalist industry and the state to have the labour force reproduced as cheaply as possible .
5 The US Fair Credit Reporting Act goes somewhat further than this .
6 When the threat passes , his fighting mood subsides relatively quickly and changes to a peaceful one .
7 However , Bonanza Boy won so easily that there really was no second .
8 She explained that this figure type suits straight rather than fitted jackets but suggested Pamela avoid short boxy jackets , which would draw attention to her bust .
9 Considering that closure for Deepcar station came as early as 1959 , the lavatory sign has done well to survive .
10 But the significance of this terrace solidarity went much further than this .
11 A recent fashion show , in aid of the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Relief Fund and local Heatherwood Hospital raised no less than £5,500 .
12 My hon. Friend is correct — it must make sense to have pay bargaining as near as possible to the point and location of work so as to make the labour market work as efficiently as possible and to reward people as fairly as possible .
13 This second wave struck more rapidly and spread more broadly than its predecessor .
14 According to the mid-year estimates the ‘ remoter , largely rural districts ’ experienced their highest rates of net immigration between 1971 and 1974 , while at the other end of the national urban hierarchy London 's rate of net migration loss peaked as early as 1970/71 ( Champion , 1981b ; Britton , 1986 ) .
15 The through service to London was interrupted on 10 and 11 September 1940 , by bomb damage outside Croydon , and a shuttle service was provided by Thornton Heath depôt running as far as Norbury Station .
16 There were periods , notably 1720 – 40 and 1760 – 1770 , when home consumption increased more quickly than exports , but as Professor Cole has pointed out , exports over the century as a whole could well have accounted for 40 per cent of the increase in industrial output .
17 It is also very good with a buoyant or pop-up boilie set-up and for long range work casts slightly better than the side-hooked option .
18 Drawn from stock and private sources , including the artist 's family , it comprises landscapes , nudes and flower pictures , and features both a view of a village church painted as early as 1924 and the final picture completed by Hitchens shortly before his death in 1979 .
19 The children found the hut door opened easily enough and cautiously they ventured in , the place smelt musty and stale but it fascinated them .
20 ( Part of the reason for this , other than the high initial cost of the hardware , is that film recorders take quite an appreciable time to image the slide whereas a rostrum camera works as fast as the operator can change the artwork . )
21 In all subjects , the digestible phase ( omelette ) of the test meal emptied more slowly than the liquid phase and the mean T50 was 2.4 ( 0.38 ) h .
22 However , there is little doubt that cases of child cruelty occur more often than they are observed .
23 The Home Office said aS far as young offenders were concerned … the aim was to find constructive altermnatives to custody …
24 Fowler inaugurated the introduction of line production in locomotive repairs , greatly reducing time spent in workshops , and a firm standardization programme to reduce as rapidly as possible the 393 individual locomotive types inherited by the LMS .
25 This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car , it emits less noxious gas .
26 The agenda of a National Security Council meeting as early as 10 March 1959 included as a main item the possibility of bringing ‘ another government to power in Cuba ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 384 ) .
27 The evening paper flung aside violently and scattering into its separate half-dozen sheets accounted for a good fifty per cent of the chaos .
28 Certainly , the combined effects of continued high interest rates and the poll tax is already being felt by leisure markets , with overall leisure spending growing more modestly than in the past .
29 The Operations Room door banged open again and Simpson burst out into the reception area , with Jimmy Devlin close behind him .
30 Secondly , it seems that the courts construe business sale covenants more liberally than restraints of trade in employment contracts and do so in an effort to make business sale covenants more easily enforceable : Ronbar Enterprises Ltd v Green [ 1954 ] 1 WLR 815 .
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