Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you live in an area that has a lot of old buildings , the council may run out of grant money very quickly and you will have to wait until next year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A company is the most flexible form of business enterprise as far as expansion is concerned . |
| 8 | King 's College first registered an interest in acquiring part of Somerset House as early as 1836 . |
| 9 | The third one up here , the small one , is a little bit sort of lost because it 's against er , this sort of cavity light here so that one tends to get a little bit lost . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then at least we would avoid the congestion of bus traffic along there and if townbound traffic was limited to one stop on the museum side of Tubwell Row instead of two stops in 100 yards we might get somewhere in more senses than one . |
| 15 | A control room duty manager ordered staff to revert to the manual logging of emergency system early yesterday after the computer slowed down . |
| 16 | Please send in copy for the summer issue of FYT News as soon as possible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Shags come into breeding plumage as early as January , growing a substantial ‘ shaving-brush ’ crest on the head . |
| 20 | " We can go up under Wandsworth Bridge as far as the Fina Oil Depot and then switch off and drift down with the tide . " |
| 21 | The paper is fixed to a piece of board with masking tape all round and a staple in each corner . |
| 22 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 23 | In some respects their concerns run parallel to the much more extensive studies recently carried out on social work decisions in child care more generally and which have been extensively referred to elsewhere in this volume ( summarized in DHSS , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | The Centre intends as the final project in this programme to conduct one or more surveys of salient work organisation characteristics in order to secure comparative data on the extent of variation in work organisation both within and between sectors . |
| 25 | She had settled in Thrush Green as snugly as a bird in its nest , and so had Jeremy . |
| 26 | Visiting his brethren in Southern Rhodesia he attacked apartheid in a sermon in Salisbury Cathedral so directly that he was deported and declared an ‘ undesirable visitor ’ by the UDI regime . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | The Security Service thought that Ramsay was unbalanced and suffered from persecution mania so far as the Jews were concerned . |
| 30 | 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 . |