Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the incidence of giving an answer such as 5.882 etc. in the stamps question was low ; probably because many pupils in the sample did not use a calculator to do the question . |
| 2 | Well , I said , it was about so long — hands out at just beyond shoulder width — and about this much across the wings — hands now indicating a fair wingspan of several feet — and it was grey , well , greyish . |
| 3 | What is clear is that behind the brilliance of the official Court there lay a core of family — one is tempted to say bourgeois — life , but this is not , of course , how the Second Empire is remembered , for few even of the courtiers were admitted to the intimacy of the Imperial family and the general public not at all . |
| 4 | It is not permissible for some only of the partners ' names to be shown on business stationery . |
| 5 | Gather up the red , blue , green and yellow fondant trimmings , keep a little piece of each aside for the counters , and then press together . |
| 6 | Since whatever admissions criteria are adopted the selection of some only of the applicants will necessarily result in defeating the parental preference of those who are rejected , what reason is there for Parliament to object to any given set of criteria being adopted ? |
| 7 | It added : ‘ We are very pleased that the procedures have worked and people have come out of this safely with no casualties . ’ |
| 8 | Umbarak — Wilfred Thesiger — rode with Zayed long before the days of oil . |
| 9 | Often the only way for that to happen was for those already in the cities to move out and for those contemplating a move in not to come . |
| 10 | The latter was to become the orthodoxy of the next few decades , whereas Collingwood died in 1943 virtually in the shadows , for more reasons than one . |
| 11 | Not forgetting in that most of the mines then , at that particular time , were nearly all privately owned . |
| 12 | Though he established a military academy at Chełmno in 1776 specifically for the sons of the Polish nobility , this was not consistent with his general line of thought . |
| 13 | Mrs. Thatcher carried her party to victory in 1979 largely on the votes of the electorate in the southern half of England , below a line drawn from the River Severn to the Wash ( see Map 5.1 ) . |
| 14 | Frank raised himself laboriously in the bed , before subsiding weakly into the pillows . |
| 15 | This Temple was destroyed in 586 BC by the Babylonians . |
| 16 | That works in industry , where many of the most cost-effective environmental initiatives have come from those closest to the opportunities , in the office print room or on the shop floor . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the Department of the Environment said : ‘ The contract was put out for tender locally by the Roads Service and was awarded to Safeall for three years . ’ |
| 18 | ( 2 ) Subject to para ( 3 ) ( below ) , the parties must make discovery by serving lists of documents and ; ( a ) subject to sub-para ( c ) , each party must make and serve on every other party a list of documents which are or have been in his possession , custody or power relating to any matter in question between them in the action ; ( b ) the court may , on application ; ( i ) order that discovery under this paragraph shall be limited to such documents or classes of documents only , or as to such only of the matters in question , as may be specified in the order , or ( ii ) if satisfied that discovery by all or any of the parties is not necessary , order that there shall be no discovery of documents by any or all of the parties ; and the court shall make such an order if and so far as it is of opinion that discovery is not necessary either for disposing fairly of the action or for saving costs ; ( c ) where liability is admitted or in an action for personal injuries arising out of a road accident , discovery shall be limited to disclosure of any documents relating to the amount of damages ; ( d ) the provisions of Ord 14 of these rules relating to inspection of documents shall apply where discovery is made under this paragraph as it applies where discovery is made under that Order . |
| 19 | Yeah May the twenty third , it 's a Saturday two to five pm at the Friends ' Meeting House , Bury . |
| 20 | So get it in there , just before , so you 're up at six o'clock in the mornings are you ? |
| 21 | The ninth Alton Ten-Mile Road Race ( sponsored by Broxhead Garage ) will be held on Sunday , May 10th , starting at 1.30 p.m. from The Butts . |
| 22 | What I do not need is to be awoken at 4 a.m. in the depths of winter , forced from my bed and summoned to gawp at an empty space where once a football stand stood . |
| 23 | Bass players of the time were most unhappy about the situation , though ; their instrument , the double bass , was exceedingly bulky , very fragile and did not take at all well to the rigours of touring , especially if strapped to the roof of a car , as many were . |
| 24 | For neither he nor anyone in his following had anything at all apart from the clothes they stood up in and their weapons and horses . |
| 25 | It is a period of constant , but intermittent , reflection and re-examination of essential roles and purposes with a questioning of past practices by those both within the institutions and those without , particularly the large international companies . |