Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Pisan ordeal had shocked Pound into recovering a compassion and tenderness which we look for mostly in vain in the Pound of the years preceding . |
| 2 | Can this be the beginning of the end for vastly over priced computer training courses ? |
| 3 | Goyigamas probably accounted for somewhere between fifty and sixty per cent of Sinhalese . |
| 4 | No , cos they 're doing it for all , they 're all doing for all over different places anyway . |
| 5 | No council could continue for long on such a basis . |
| 6 | No airline could afford to carry passengers for long at such giveaway prices . |
| 7 | Small shops can not survive for long under these conditions . |
| 8 | Hoe many of us could 7 survive for long without some predictable pattern or regularity in our lives ? |
| 9 | Yes and then of course you get business organizations , the and much business is now internationally based , we 've , we recognize this recently from the erm the purchase of Rover by B M W erm but of course the big companies have operated for long across international boundaries , whether it be oil companies like Texaco or chemical companies like I C I erm or MacDonalds , you know one of the symbols that erm lets you know Russia had been opened up to the international community was the erm presence of a MacDonalds ' erm shop in Moscow . |
| 10 | And I have grave doubts that I will be able to endure it for long after this … débâcle … this hideousness . ’ |
| 11 | They were men of such unyielding integrity ( they would only admit to a fault in order to show how it might be overcome ) that the wavering personality of a child could not rest for long against those monumental shoulders . |
| 12 | For long before Pink Floyd became so big that they disappeared from view , they were darlings of the '60s underground scene where , with madcap leader Syd Barrett , they played regularly at legendary hot spots such as The UFO Club in Swinging London 's Tottenham Court Road . |
| 13 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 14 | And yet , this relatively peaceful country , moving out of the stagnation of the 1930s to the growing affluence of post-1945 , was seldom contented or placid for long throughout these forty-four years . |
| 15 | But the sea was very rough and our little boat could not live for long in that wild water . |
| 16 | Whether he was changing his job , dabbling in accommodation suitable for lodging houses or seeking a larger or smaller house to suit an expanding and then a contracting family , the silversmith-cum-general salesman-cum-lodging-house keeper-cum-commercial clerk-cum-clerk to a manufacturing jeweller-cum-collector to a goldsmith-cum-writing clerk never seemed to settle for long in one place . |
| 17 | If there 's another hole and the water swamps us , we will not survive for long in these icy waters . ’ |
| 18 | We know , for example , that for much of that period , places such as the lower Ouse Valley and the lower Arran and Ada Valleys were in fact flooded arms of the sea and that the sediment brought down by the rivers of Sussex from inland , along with deposition by the sea in the quiet waters within those estuary-type areas , has gradually in-filled them . |
| 19 | As each persisted in the geological record for only about one million years , the presence of either , even in isolation , can give excellent biostratigraphical resolution . |
| 20 | Although the eclipse is only partial at the two highest frequencies , so that the pulses are observed throughout the orbit , strong pulses are seen for only about one-quarter of the time at 606MHz , close to phase 0.75 when the pulsar is nearest to the Earth . |
| 21 | It may seem grudging then to criticise the book for only including four essays on women 's visual images compared with seven pieces on different themes and genres in women 's writing . |
| 22 | yes and everybody not too happy as you can probably imagine erm Peter erm while we were talking to Paul Simpson , in fact Brian Horton was holding his press conference and I think he said the same as everybody else ; ‘ Bolder the opposition goalkeeper had an inspired game , but really United had the chances and the possession , and really everything to kill Charlton off long before half time and really put no pressure on themselves in the second half . ’ |
| 23 | Last October , just before a visit to Hong Kong by a Chinese team of experts looking into the airport , the Hong Kong government suddenly announced that a bridge that is a big part of the project would be paid for entirely with public money ; before , it had said the bridge would be private . |
| 24 | Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh . |
| 25 | The first helicopter left Safe Supporter shortly after 2pm with 19 people on board and the last touched down at Aberdeen airport just after 8.30pm . |
| 26 | The ‘ xuechao ’ died out after just over one week but at its height both the university and state authorities were concerned that demonstrations could occur involving not only the Beida students but those from nearby campuses and even disaffected workers . |
| 27 | If you shared that two thirds out evenly between four people , |
| 28 | If all diabetics were looked after solely by general practitioners , undoubtedly some would be cared for by doctors without a real interest in the subject . |
| 29 | I be lucky I get any bloke fer more'n two monfs togewer like my ol' lady I suppose an' if I get a bloke 'e 'll be aht a' work or 'e 'll set me ter the bleed'n game like 'er I would n't be surprised but if you reely want ter now jus ' fer now for this minute I wanner enjoy it . |
| 30 | The store burned because , some minutes after 11am on 25 April , a 6.9 earthquake heaved the town , our houses and the store briefly off the ground and , in the store , an electric coffee pot overturned . |