Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Is there some secret You inside that rather activist exterior ? ’
2 On that rather complacement note matters rested until 1958 , the year in which A. W. Phillips of the London School of Economics published a paper which proved to be a landmark in the evolution of macroeconomic ideas .
3 Labour constantly block help to the unemployed .
4 A variety of investigation techniques may be used eg field studies , interviews , questionnaires , audio and video recording , etc .
5 just take that down glass bowl was there and that tea pot underneath .
6 ON the eight o'clock radio news that Monday morning there was a substantial piece about an exciting police chase in Essex — understandably , on a rather lonely road .
7 His reflection was fed by information from a wide variety of sources — from the presidential staff at the Elysée , from his ministers , from officials and experts , from the abundant official documentation that passed across his desk , and from the media ( he read all the major French newspapers as well as the Daily Telegraph , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and the New York Herald Tribune , and his normal weekday routine always ended in time for the eight o'clock television news ) .
8 As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " .
9 That er lived in this house and they were the the real grass roots of the old Labour Party , the real socialists , not like the ones that we know today that only pay lip service to it .
10 However , until very recently the accepted wisdom ( CRC , 1977a ) has been that only manufacturing jobs can provide the sort of economic basis needed for sustained job provision , and that neither hill farming or forestry , as shown in Table 5.10 , or service employment and tourism could provide a long-term solution to rural employment problems .
11 First , consider mutations that only affect adult survival ( ) .
12 An alternative to having a separate entry for every word-form is that only base forms are listed in the lexicon , together with a set of lexical rules for deriving all regularly inflected forms of the base item , and a listing of all irregularly inflected forms .
13 Priced at £4.95 a bottle which when diluted equals 82p per usable litre , AirX is claimed to be good value , say the manufacturers , when compared to spending money on products that only mask smells .
14 Roger O'Doherty , secretary of Age Concern in Derry , said : ‘ We wish it to be known that only evening activities are curtailed at present in the Whyte House .
15 I must stress that only aluminium cans are acceptable and , if possible , they should be crushed as they take up less room .
16 That kinda thing Em barrassing .
17 The English only fire bullets , but in Irish speech any missile to hand can be fired , simply by hurling it .
18 There is , however , only a fugitive , implicit ( and comic ) reference to the tale being an exemplum within the text , and no reference to it as it is presented in the manuscript ; the tale is identified in the manuscript by the name of the character peculiar to this basically East Midland version , Dame Sirith .
19 " I 'm not wearing a proper enough business suit to meet Sir Willie in , " she moaned .
20 Even so , the decision of the 19th Palestine National Council in November 1988 to take this highly accommodationist road was not an easy one , and was only possible because it had become apparent that the world now recognized that no substantive peace negotiations were likely to materialize without formal PLO participation .
21 He found traces of human skin on its teeth , so I think we kin safely assume the damage wuz inflicted by some kinda karate blow .
22 ‘ There must be some kinda way outta here , ’ sang Rex Mundi to no-one but himself .
23 This best selling program lacks nothing , it is obvious within the first five minutes of using the program that the author has listened to end users and their requirements .
24 This deliberately throwaway remark hints at the paranoia within the ranks of Rough Trade where The Smiths are the only band of stature that they had managed to retain .
25 I was champing at the bit to investigate Stanford shopping precinct before my 2 p.m. hospital appointment with Dr Levy and his team , so Kenneth hastily finished his third helping and we walked the short distance to the precinct .
26 One of the few genuinely dockland clubs , they won the 1905 FA Amateur Cup as West Hartlepool , then achieved nothing more until they won promotion to the Third .
27 The youngest ever organ soloist to appear at the Proms , in 1977 , he is especially noted for his brilliant performances of twentieth century works and of masterpieces in the great Romantic tradition .
28 Peter , who was 44 , had joined Rentokil in 1966 and during 26 years with the company had worked in the laboratory , been appointed the youngest ever pest control surveyor in London and been seconded to the Bahamas where he and Lynn spent seven years .
29 At 22 , Val became the youngest ever ward sister at London 's Middlesex Hospital .
30 For the first time I can imagine some dim trail of obsession , some weird recursive delusion , leading out of this little room , down the spiral stairs , and out to some wildly mischosen destination
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