Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The class has been without a regular teacher for eight weeks and now parents are demanding extra help . |
| 2 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 3 | Add to this the copyright problems — there will be no retrospective recognition of copyright for foreign books and so back-lists will remain unprotected — and it is easy to see why so many publishers simply sigh and pass on . |
| 4 | You 're looking for high fliers and even car firms can go bust the second year . |
| 5 | In spite of sanitary reform and what little planning there was , urban overcrowding probably increased during this period and neither health nor mortality improved , where they did not actually deteriorate . |
| 6 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 7 | with all its attendant trivialities , occupied the Royal Society for some time and even King George III was drawn into the argument as is shown by the contemporary jingle : |
| 8 | By contrast , those patients with severe comorbid conditions had a consistently high mortality during the 2 years after discharge : 60% were alive after 12 months and only 30% after 24 months . |
| 9 | After three years and approximately £2m of research and development , SeaChange 4 began shipping on March 31 . |
| 10 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |
| 11 | Partnerships differ , as well , in terms of specific purpose and therefore location on the whole partnership map . |
| 12 | She brought a tray of preserved oranges and then glasses of araki ( ? ) . |
| 13 | Pugh lists Horatio , Earl of Orford , as a foundation member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts , Manufactures and Commerce ( called later the Royal Society of Arts ) along with others who were members of that society and also foundation members of the College in 1791 . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , a depreciation of the dollar tends to reduce eurobond issuance , especially for dollar issues , suggesting that depreciation leads to expectations of further falls and hence losses for non-dollar based investors . |
| 15 | Only 4% of organisations never keep paper copies of electronic documents and over 20% always keep copies . ’ |
| 16 | Nearly £1 billion of public money and over £4 billion of private money has gone into Docklands since 1981 . |
| 17 | The key points of extended reach and fully body rotation are artificially emphasized and the stroke is simplified and standardized to remove confusing variations . |
| 18 | There were moments of high drama and even tragedy , all sensationally recorded in the journals of the protagonists , The Seaman and The British Seafarer . |
| 19 | Work is very rarely performed by a man without the aid of some machinery and correspondingly machines rarely function for very long without human intervention . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's very rare we get an application of this nature and unfortunately 80pc of it has been thrown out and lost to the people of Derwentside . |
| 21 | Rupture of atheromatous plaque leads to occlusive thrombosis that produces myocardial ischaemia and cell death leading to loss of ventricular function and possibly death . |
| 22 | Mrs Maugham was a great shopper in large department stores , and she could not resist their sillier notions ; if anyone had accused her of extravagance , she would have roundly rebuffed the accusation as fantastic and perverse , and yet she must have spent many useless pounds in her pursuit of useful acquisitions Similarly , she always maintained that she hated clutter-clutter , implying , in her tone , the dense decorative drawing-room knick-knacks of Victorian England and yet clutter reigned in all her rooms . |
| 23 | I mean , I 'm a fan of oily rags and maybe mildew . |
| 24 | The trying climate , the oppression of the enemy , the difference of culture , the loneliness — these all work towards nervous stress and sometimes breakdown for the missionary . |
| 25 | Dental health may be a more general indicator of personal hygiene and possibly health care practices . |
| 26 | Techniques of scholarly investigation and particularly modes of " literacy " exposition and expression are tied to perceptions of individuals worth , in a manner also quite characteristic of other professions . |
| 27 | Although these years witnessed a very low tide of economic activity including the horrors of widespread famine and even peasant revolts in some areas like Tambov , problems concerning religious belief and taxation never led to large-scale uprisings in the Smolensk guberniia ( nor indeed anywhere else in Russia ) . |
| 28 | This might appear on the surface the most neutral formulation — there were unarguably three distinct times of battles in 1642–6 , 1648 , and 1650–1 — but it also elides the establishment of parliamentary authority and later Cromwell 's Protectorate . |
| 29 | Or rather , it will be economical to use one of these terms in a yet more general way , to cover all of these things and also things that do not fall naturally into any of the mentioned ordinary or semi-technical categories or ones like them . |
| 30 | Lawrence McGinty , late of these pages and now science 's man on Channel 4 's news programme — had the indignity of being the first to be ejected from the balloon . |