Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I call upon Councillor to move the recommendations of the Community and Environment Services Committee , together with amendment A standing in his name . |
| 2 | It is perhaps in part a matter of date which makes Dornford Yates 's novels seem high-flown and absurd to us where we can accommodate ourselves to the formalities of Anthony Hope 's Ruritania . |
| 3 | Ramey 's focus is much sharper than Willard White 's , and it is only in part a question of vocal quality . |
| 4 | Behind his back they called him a " Jaune " — a " yellow " with its unmistakable implication of cowardice ; if feeling more tactful they called him an " Annamite " — but was n't that only in truth a man of China 's ancient colony , the " Pacified South " ? |
| 5 | Edwin Montagu by contrast , although indisputably by birth a member of la grande juiverie , was by inclination almost a professional non-Jew . |
| 6 | Expect to pay upward of £40 a day for half-board . |
| 7 | Shortly after midnight a number of shots were fired at Oldpark and Woodburn RUC stations . |
| 8 | Shortly after dawn a party of Germans entered a railway carriage at Compiègne and by the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month , the Armistice was signed and the war was over . |
| 9 | Once actionable , trusts must have come into popular use , i for already under Claudius a change in the jurisdictional scheme was introduced , and two special praetors were appointed . |
| 10 | The meaning of the to infinitive is thus in fact a combination of two potentials : the potential meaning of the bare infinitive , which gives the speaker the possibility of representing the realization of any action as unfolding from its beginning through to its end and any state as having a fully actualized lexical content ; and the potential significate of to , which affords the speaker the possibility of representing any movement in time from a before-position to an after-position ( corresponding here to the beginning of the infinitive event ) . |
| 11 | Meanwhile at Bruges a truce for one year was agreed on 26 May . |
| 12 | It was different when she was snatched away by Decca a couple of years later . |
| 13 | They did not have to face protests and reforms in the middle of the first millennium B.C. In Egypt a morality of silence prevailed , and Mesopotamia — whether Assyria or Chaldaea — seems to have been bent on conquering the others rather than on criticizing herself . |
| 14 | Early in October a meeting of three An Taisce branches in Donegal agreed to oppose these applications . |
| 15 | Early in marriage a re-ordering of priorities is necessary , and some couples can run into trouble if their commitment to , or dependence upon , healthy robust parents can not be allowed to take second place to their commitment to their new partner . |
| 16 | Egypt was still in principle a province of the Ottoman Empire ; and while the Khedive 's allegiance to the Sultan of the Sublime Porte was in practice nominal , the Turks took a keen interest in Egyptian affairs . |
| 17 | Under the EC strategy , an energy tax would rise gradually to $10 a barrel by the year 2000 . |
| 18 | It was also of course a source of female power by virtue of the fact that anything that threatens also wields power — a theme which has often been picked by other contributors to this volume . |
| 19 | And also of course a lot of crimes that had their that were basically crimes of domestic violence . |
| 20 | It is also in part a result of the demands of modern life which have made access to ordered information more and more necessary . |
| 21 | I was too young to remember him , but later at intervals a number of remarkable men , among them Arnold Hodson , Hugh Dodds and Arthur Bentinck , served on my father 's staff and were to remain our friends over the years . |
| 22 | For example , on completing the examinations , a new Fellow can expect upwards of £25,000 a year in Central London which could rapidly increase to £40,000 a year or more . |
| 23 | Thus the high-modernist building was able simultaneously to enshrine a notion of pure rationality in systems-building , pure formalism in its opposition to ornament , pure functionality which was seen as the basis of its aesthetic value , and pure style . |
| 24 | For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale . |
| 25 | Well for instance a lot of people did n't even bother to erm make the kitchen floor into anything reasonable , but we did , we , we got some very good , very heavy |
| 26 | There is a theatre , baths , the impressive library and an odeon mainly erected in the second century A.D. Like Pompeii a number of streets have been uncovered , some marble paved and with remains on each side of shops , houses and public buildings . |
| 27 | The leniently-treated Sooner Still ran well at Doncaster a couple of weeks ago , but is often let down by his jumping . |
| 28 | ESSO is raising pump prices today by 5p a gallon for 4-star petrol and 6p for diesel . |
| 29 | Increasing the basic state pension immediately by £5 a week for single pensioners , and by £8 a week for married couples . |
| 30 | In the West Indies the incident of wanting to go to the airport , and the fact that he turned up late for matches a number of times , had gained him a reputation for lack of discipline . |