Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pictures then , if they are to be understood and enjoyed , need to be talked about , and talked about most profitably with a more-experienced reader . |
| 2 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 3 | As the article correctly acknowledges , generally magnox fuel must be reprocessed within a few years of discharge from a reactor , from an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) , fuel may be stored underwater for somewhat longer periods and for much longer in a dry store . |
| 4 | ‘ He would not have survived for much longer in the Arctic conditions , ’ said a spokesman for Gwent Police . |
| 5 | In retrospect it seems remarkable that economic policy should have paid lip service for so long to an untested hypothesis . |
| 6 | The fall , identified for so long with a sweet , sad nostalgia , a magnificence of gold and crimson under startling blue skies , became for us a nightmare . |
| 7 | In fact , they 'll be amazed that nineteenth-century Catholics contrived to believe for so long in the literal truth of those poetic legends . |
| 8 | Old people have been indoctrinated for so long in the necessary frailty and peripheralism of their lot that this is not surprising . |
| 9 | DEL Harris of Colchester , for so long in the top three of the British squash rankings , has dropped down the list because of injury and a recent loss of form . |
| 10 | His light summer suit and pale striped silk tie are for once exactly like the light summer suits and pale striped silk ties that everybody else is wearing . |
| 11 | No setting off home straight after a quick lunch to be sure of catching the last lift ? |
| 12 | All of these choices , it was felt , not only avoided the sense of incompleteness generated by ( b ) , but also rounded the story off more neatly with a short descriptive statement devoid of any actional content . |
| 13 | These two recent developments will be dealt with more fully in the final chapter . |
| 14 | In ulcerative colitis most of the TNF α immunoreactivity was seen in the subepithelial macrophages , with comparatively less in the deep lamina preopria , while in Crohn 's disease immunoreactive cells were distributed evenly throughout the lamina propria . |
| 15 | Some might think Langholm an unlikely location for a PLC head office — about as far from the madding crowd as you could get . |
| 16 | She must just have got off , and she was probably watching me from somewhere high above the distant sea . |
| 17 | The photographer had long since gone , but Kevin Seymour and I pored over the yacht 's considerable folio of charts while we discussed in detail the cruises that have been sketched in so lightly in the previous paragraphs . |
| 18 | It 's a funny old game , Saint , viewed from directly overhead with the cartoonesque players zipping up and down the scrolling pitch . |
| 19 | And , and I mean I , I , I 'm making I 'm mak I 'm deliberately making these points because he is viewed as someone who perhaps would n't have been a Sun type but more of a , a Telegraph type or whatever , but when you 've analyzed his , his words and his speeches and everything else in terms of what we 're talking about the tabloids or broadsheets or whatever , you know he would , his language would have fitted in more neatly to the tabloid style than the the Telegraph style . |
| 20 | But London was for ever a sensitive place in the eyes of the English kings , watched with jealous eyes from the White Tower , built by William I at the south-east comer of its defences — and from further off in the great royal palace of Westminster . |
| 21 | Then the angry dancing glare of fire lit up the darkness from further back along the main corridor . |
| 22 | This might well have been followed by Salt 111 discussions in which various new measures could have been put on the disarmament agenda — British and French strategic weapons , American F-111 bombers in Europe-as well as a continued ban on the deployment of ground-launched cruise missiles by both sides . |
| 23 | Andy Haden said , from far away on a local radio programme , that the Vichy-Treviso jaunt was just another part of the growing player-power . |
| 24 | In this way a carcass can draw vultures from far away in a short time . |
| 25 | TENANTS living in council owned sheltered accommodation could be allowed to keep their pets without having to apply for permission on an annual basis.Uttlesford District Council has allowed tenants to keep a pet dog or cat , but until now only on a temporary basis.For the past two years , tenants have had to apply annually for permission to keep a pet under the council 's rules . |
| 26 | So I 'm just , I 'll walk down , how far is it from here down to the main road along the road ? |
| 27 | If a fella walked in here now with a bloody gun I 'd |
| 28 | But it was another slender figure , a woman , shimmying up on to the port wing , from there on to the scorching hull , running along the curve in great , light strides and flinging her arm out in front of her , pointing with her index and little fingers at the mob pulling down the man . |
| 29 | But er we used to bring these tubs then down from there on to the main road where the rope , the haulage rope travelled you see ? |
| 30 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |