Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
| 2 | Although present in Langstone Harbour there are now no beds of Zostera species in either Sussex estuary , although these certainly existed in the early years of this century , and Z. angustifolia was recorded near the Hayling shore of Chichester Harbour as recently as 1963 . |
| 3 | Even during periods of falling prices , some components of NW will remain fixed in nominal terms so that , unless other components of NW fall more rapidly than the price level , reductions in P will raise which , in turn , will stimulate consumption expenditure . |
| 4 | The flanks of the original mound of sand advance more rapidly than the centre , for the rate of advance is inversely proportional to the height of the slip face . |
| 5 | A company is the most flexible form of business enterprise as far as expansion is concerned . |
| 6 | King 's College first registered an interest in acquiring part of Somerset House as early as 1836 . |
| 7 | Characteristic symptoms of monopolization can be seen in the reorganization of music hall as early as the 1880s ; corporate ownership , national and regional syndicates and chains , and restrictive licensing policies combined to freeze out the small entrepreneur ( see Bailey 1986a , passim ) . |
| 8 | You may say , against this , that there can surely be some form of appearance/reality distinction so long as the input systems can deliver up information about such objective facts as occlusion . |
| 9 | Dunning 's and his co-workers ' ( 1984 ) historical survey of Football Association minutes and reports contained in the Leicester Mercury also provides evidence of pitch invasions and other forms of crowd disorder as early as the 1890s . |
| 10 | We 're actually in a part of Barley Hall now accidentally except that this part has been so Georgianized that we have n't incorporated into the medieval house it 's used as an office . |
| 11 | A control room duty manager ordered staff to revert to the manual logging of emergency system early yesterday after the computer slowed down . |
| 12 | Please send in copy for the summer issue of FYT News as soon as possible . |
| 13 | In linguistics , especially in the English-speaking world between the 1930s and 1960s , there have been several schools of thought which believe that context — this knowledge of the world outside language which we use to interpret it — should be ruled out of language analysis as far as possible . |
| 14 | It seems likely that the first of these surveys probed reasons for job loss more deeply than the latter , and that the second 's estimates are too low . |
| 15 | Shags come into breeding plumage as early as January , growing a substantial ‘ shaving-brush ’ crest on the head . |
| 16 | " We can go up under Wandsworth Bridge as far as the Fina Oil Depot and then switch off and drift down with the tide . " |
| 17 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 18 | She had settled in Thrush Green as snugly as a bird in its nest , and so had Jeremy . |
| 19 | As , managing director of business psychologists , John Nicholson Associates , explained : ‘ A crude analogy is if you are a fleet manager and one of you cars is not working properly , then you check out the problem and see if it can be fixed in-house or go to external specialists to get it back on the road in peak condition as soon as possible . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We are keen to distance the BBC from tobacco sponsorship as soon as practicable in line with UK and European trends , ’ says the report leaked this week . |
| 21 | The Security Service thought that Ramsay was unbalanced and suffered from persecution mania so far as the Jews were concerned . |
| 22 | After doing this several times in a two-seater during training , the student may find both that applying full opposite rudder will stop the spin and that the glider does not in fact re-stall again even if the stick is kept back . |
| 23 | Organizations that have horizontal and adaptive structures are able to meet the changes in market need more readily than those with cumbersome hierarchical structures , and create multifunctional development groups to plan new product developments . |
| 24 | Problems there certainly were : the disentangling of assets with multiple uses ( for example , some offices had been used for gas billing as well as for electricity ) inevitably caused some headaches . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , the company was still valued at more than £1bn on Stock Market as late as last September . |
| 26 | You must think yourselves lucky to be able to go to Thrush Green as often as you do . ’ |
| 27 | This division of the space available allowed for the cultivation of their different tastes : whereas Minton listened to Billie Holiday as readily as Bach , Vaughan 's interests were more purely high-brow . |
| 28 | But if that was n't a second smokescreen settling on Oxendown House as fast as possible after Charlie 's Indians had withdrawn their own , then I do n't know smoke signals when I smell them . |
| 29 | May we have a debate on junk mail as soon as possible , to discuss a mailshot sent to many of my constituents by an organisation that is partly funded by Maxwell money which is so full of falsehoods that it would make the average time-share salesman blush ; which redefines the term ’ junk mail ’ and peddles dodgy , old-fashioned and out-of-date remedies which have been banned in most countries and which have passed their sell-by date ; and which bears the signature of an obscure Welsh politician , best known for losing his rag with Zimbabwean soldiers and for nutting people in public lavatories ? |
| 30 | Tucked away in the imagination , my planting ideas are all absolutely brilliant and flow from brain to magazine page as smoothly as dew running down an iris leaf . |