Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 2 | The Court had approved the payment of fees up to 15 April and since then , with the authority of the Court and the approval of the creditors ' committee , Touche has drawn on account fees that have not yet been formally approved . |
| 3 | Agents Mathews and Goodman are looking for rents of around ££10 a sq ft for space in Martin 's Building as it becomes free for letting with a range of suites up to 14,000 sq ft being available . |
| 4 | Perhaps now we 'll see a happier Oval under a manager who 's prepared to clear out the old guard from ex-stalwarts down to assistant kitman . |
| 5 | With an above average climb in prices up to 1990 , the fall has been equally steep , but prices look set to hold up as the international status of sculpture rises |
| 6 | This vigorous phase continued for a few days , with the column of steam and ash climbing eleven kilometres high above the volcano and showering ash over points up to 480 kilometres distant . |
| 7 | Later this year , however , there should be a new run at energies up to 43 GeV ; this should give a difference in asymmetry of about 3.5 per cent , which if there will be observable . |
| 8 | Hammocks were comfortable , secure and private Iain MacLaren 's letter ( Points of View , 20 February ) about his experiences as a National Service army medical officer will no doubt bring a flood of memories back to many readers regarding those ‘ halcyon days ’ when they served Queen , or King and country . |
| 9 | It looks at the north-south divide , and at the shift of jobs out of major cities . |
| 10 | Eric Stonebanks , the first Group Secretary , in his published survey of the Bedford Group of Hospitals up to 1958 , wrote that : |
| 11 | While there were many conflicts over all the new music ( and dance ) forms ( see , for example , Hustwitt 1983 ) , by the mid-1920s we can see the outlines of a new , laboriously constructed consensus , ‘ hotter ’ and radical elements squeezed out , new techniques smoothed and assimilated within a musical framework with links back to bourgeois traditions , socially centred on ‘ respectable ’ dancing and home-listening , and on traditional kinds of concert and opera-going ( see Frith 1983b ; 1988b ) . |
| 12 | An aftercast of the winds and study of the Canadian forecast for the period of the flight reveals the presence of a jet stream between 33,000 and 35,000 feet on the latter part of the route with winds up to 134 knots . |
| 13 | The BGS publishes a ‘ Catalogue of Printed Maps ’ which lists the availability of maps down to 1:25 000 scale . |
| 14 | There is fairly high participation in a variety of informal and formal organizations and the development of friendships out of this voluntary participation . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the West German coalition decided on April 23 to offer the East German government a 1:1 conversion rate for savings up to 4,000 Marks and for wages and pensions ( which latter would also be raised , from less than 50 per cent of wages to the West German level of 70 per cent ) . |
| 16 | It 's been designed to act as a snug environment for babies up to six months and there are ample pockets for nappies , easy heats and favourite toys . |
| 17 | At present the catalogue is in two parts ; a card catalogue for items up to 1991 , and the computerised records from 1986 to the present . |
| 18 | So that was the main tree planting , this avenue of trees down on either side of this little path . |
| 19 | Tab the tinker , who had come in to be shriven , had agreed to fashion a coffin of sorts out of thin planks of wood . |
| 20 | In normal times there is a steady movement of pilots up from small air taxi operations through turboprop commuter aircraft of the major airlines . |
| 21 | Black & Decker 's Tough Truck converts in seconds to a four wheeled truck for use with loads up to 220 lbs — price £29.95 . |
| 22 | Oh yeah a funny looking dog with horns on like that and others and everything standing in the middle of the field you call those funny sort of dogs , cows . |
| 23 | The 27-metre HM 527 cruises at 67 km/h with a full load of 200 passengers , and gives a smooth ride in waves up to 2 m high . |
| 24 | The unexpected finding of differences in the pretend play of boys and girls called for further research to test the robustness of the effect , and the apparent precocity of the girls prompted an extension to children up to 48 months of age . |
| 25 | If three adults book a twin room with extra bed , they get an £11 reduction on holidays up to seven nights , £22 on 14 night breaks ( not applicable for coach tours ) . |
| 26 | He was supported by the Duke of Norfolk , a Conservative and leading Roman Catholic , who said the white paper had offered a clear choice , while the bill would allow a choice between experiments up to 33 hours or up to 14 days and should be amended . |
| 27 | She was purchased by a syndicate of members along with 1941 two cylinder diesel shunter ‘ Solto ’ 325 . |
| 28 | The second ‘ Standard for Indoor General Storage ’ N.F.P.A number 231 , deals with storage of materials up to 7.5 metres in height representing the broad range of combustibles , stored in solid or palletised piles . |
| 29 | The inflexibility of prices up to full employment in effect makes the AS curve the inverted L-shape , P EAS . |
| 30 | Immediately after the war the government mismanaged the discharge of servicemen back into civilian life , and unemployment rose rapidly . |