Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we shall hear more about that once Opposition Members have reflected on the important role of TECs . |
| 2 | The wheel advanced , or ‘ escaped ’ , by the space of one tooth for each to-and-fro oscillation of the foliot . |
| 3 | And it was one of those such nights that at half past seven I 'd just got most of the fires set and ready to er er just on and going and I 'd half an hour to get everything straightened and ready for eight o'clock opening , and the door at the back went , which was where the office used to be . |
| 4 | Between relentless , disjointed images of everything from cowboys and Indians to real-life Vietnam clips and even an off-colour star of a former age , Victor Mature as the Jolly Green Giant , he managed to write the obituary for that totally plastic group , created from nothing as NBC 's teenybop answer to the Beatles and who were a pale shadow in terms of comparative talent . |
| 5 | Superchunk have covered ‘ Brand New Love ’ as some kinda tribute . |
| 6 | I went to Hemel Hempstead er a school called in Hemel Hempstead that was only from the August till December when I left school and then the erm then the Headmistress , cos we had a Headmistress there cos it was a mixed school , and she recommended me for this here errand boy 's job , his name was . |
| 7 | With the two contrasting sets , primary and secondary , and contemporary and retrospective , we can construct a two-by-two diagram to illustrate the classifications produced , and for this four-fold classification we can give examples . |
| 8 | Explanations for this inevitably concern ( a ) the content of the textual material used as data , and ( b ) the content of the collocation dictionaries . |
| 9 | ‘ Actually , I 'm just happy to be where I am because after that early problem we only had 14 minutes of running , so it was a short session . ’ |
| 10 | Do n't think I feel like anything to eat after that late lunch . |
| 11 | This means that because it was an explanatory one , his theory of religion has retained an interest long after later more empiricist studies have lost scientific interest . |
| 12 | Its leaders had retained a distance from the perceived excesses of militancy that began to surface and gain momentum after 1917 when opposition to the war mounted and hopeful eyes turned to Russia ( for good accounts of this period see Cole 1969 and Miliband 1973 ) . |
| 13 | Such conflict became increasingly likely after 1920 when unemployment rose as British trade failed to recover to its pre-war level . |
| 14 | Apart from a brief period after 1964 when prescription charges were removed , these charges have remained ever since and been increased regularly . |
| 15 | The pack was released each night after ten o'clock curfew , after which time anyone who disobeyed orders and remained outside the safety of the house , did so at their own peril . |
| 16 | The first person to phone marketing chief Carmel Morgan at the Everyman Theatre after 10.30 tomorrow morning with the correct answer , will win two prize seats for Saturday evening 's final performance . |
| 17 | Furthermore , in the period after 1944 when selection for secondary schools through the 11 + examination predominated , girls ' 11 + performances were weighted differently to boys ' performances so that girls achieved fewer places than their examination results indicated , and boys achieved more places than their results merited . |
| 18 | During the summer of 1943 when wartime industrial production in the USA was nearing its peak , a wave of absenteeism swept through women working in key areas of the US war effort to the extent that the FBI were called in to investigate whether some elaborate form of Axis sabotage was afoot . |
| 19 | Dad , can I cut a piece of that please Dad ? |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the Treasurer suggested that the worst was probably over , and that the recession would not be as deep as that of 1982/83 when GDP had declined for four consecutive quarters and both inflation and unemployment had exceeded 10 per cent . |
| 21 | What 's the story of this not stuff , are they |
| 22 | Failure of this citizenly vigilance can all too easily lead to an erosion of our entitlements . |
| 23 | Much of this citizenly activity will take place at the local level . |
| 24 | Their encore is the authentic main event , two songs of blissed out brilliance . |
| 25 | Their encore is the authentic main event , two songs of blissed out brilliance . |
| 26 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 27 | Once divested of operational day-today management of schools and colleges . |
| 28 | Significant moves have been made towards introducing such a requirement in the near future , however , and it would be prudent to take account of these when planning your return . |
| 29 | I fancy one of these spirally type perms . |
| 30 | Of these only hippopotamus teeth , which are denser and harder than ivory and of a gleaming whiteness , featured in any of the ancient civilizations . |