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

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1 He opened a shop there in 1961 and gradually took over other premises , including the castle , until today he has an annual turnover of more than a million second-hand books .
2 Britain was totally unprepared for the cataclysm of the Franco-Prussian War late in 1870 and still less for its outcome .
3 It could then be opened for signature later in 1992 or early in 1993 , to enter into force once ratified by 65 countries .
4 He then became an assistant to an Essex doctor , returning to his father late in 1762 or early in 1763 .
5 He progressed north-east , using the uplift warily at first but then with increasing confidence , soaring round and round in its rising power and powering forward for miles , until he saw the hills begin to falter ahead and the ground to flatten unpromisingly .
6 Does he investigate the object curiously at first and then ignore it , indicating a bold nature ?
7 Correspondingly acquisition is different from storage in that the latter implies a formal recording possibly in short-term or possibly in long-term memory .
8 That directness of involvement was signalled by each teacher at the first stage of assessment receiving from central government late in 1989 and early in 1990 packs of materials , descriptions of policy , examples of assessment and timetables .
9 Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight .
10 The Committee proposed three major offences in the field between attempted murder and common assault : causing serious injury with intent to cause serious injury ; causing serious injury recklessly ; and causing injury either with intent or recklessly .
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