Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORTHERN Ireland players Nigel Worthington and Stephen Morrow will go into the history books when Sheffield Wednesday take on Arsenal in next month 's Coca-Cola final . |
| 2 | Being all legs at first , a foal can gallop alongside its mother within hours of birth . |
| 3 | Overall sales were down 55% on last year when profits from autioneering were $139 million . |
| 4 | So Tallis at last entered the stone corridors and galleries which had once led Harry to the first forest , and a forbidden land in whose winter embrace he had become lost . |
| 5 | Total turnover , net profit and purchases will be accepted from traders with a turnover below £10,000 from next April , he said . |
| 6 | However , it can be argued that neither strategy has succeeded in making a significant enough difference in Third World women 's access to information and skills relevant to them and useful for contributing to development in their communities . |
| 7 | Only weeks after first use , the glasses I am drinking from are etched into cloudy streaks . |
| 8 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 9 | It laid down provisions for third world states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and for compensation payments in return for extraction of their genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 10 | There were obviously difficulties at first , when there were no trade unions and ‘ the factory was run by a mixture of tyranny , favouritism and paternalism ’ . |
| 11 | Yet the club brought in players from Second Division clubs and a Premier League club . |
| 12 | After warning had been given that poll-tax bills will average £400 ( $780 ) in April , Westminster council announced that residents will have to pay only £176 , down £19 on last year . |
| 13 | However , Dr Patrick Green , Friends of the Earth radiation campaigner , said : ‘ BNF has a scandalous track record of playing down incidents at first , and only admitting their seriousness later . ’ |
| 14 | Laura Ashley send you various brochures and things like that , eg invitation to 40th anniversary tea etc — I would really rather they did n't . |
| 15 | Proceed down slope in second field to stile ahead . |
| 16 | Proceed down slope in second field to stile by electricity post , then ascend third field to gate in front of farm . |
| 17 | As part of the settlement to last year 's National dispute , the phasing in of Extended Opening Hours was agreed as follows : — 10.00am–4.00p.m. with effect from 1st May 1992 ; 10.00a.m. –4.00p.m. from 1st January , 1993 . |
| 18 | Punch bread and squatts worked a treat for Derek Bibby ( Complete Angler ) as he took just 4lb for first place in the Warrington AA match . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought they were just gulls at first , ’ said Edward . |
| 20 | Eric came back from his school cruise and I started to talk a little after he arrived ; just nonsense at first , then later disjointed hints at what had happened , always followed by screaming and catatonia . |
| 21 | The Greek and Roman pantheon honoured gods who , if adequately propitiated , could bring good fortune ; Jove could make jovial ; but these were not gods of last resort . |
| 22 | They met on week-days , not weekends at first , in pubs never very far away from the flat . |
| 23 | Labour would implement environmentally-progressive policies and press for reductions and possibly cancellations in third world debt . |
| 24 | Also part of Eighth Army was 13 Corps , commanded by Lt-Gen John Harding , with his headquarters at Monfalcone just north-west of Trieste , whose forces were deployed in north-east Italy ( Venezia Giulia ) . |
| 25 | Aye going going flat out you know they 're er heavy rains the machines are going flat out er at the s one night I I sat I sat er all night and ne nearly part of next day at side of one of governors , to make sure it did n't shift no more than a about a sixteenth of an inch . |
| 26 | Revenue is currently running nearly 10% below last year 's pre-Christmas levels as foreign consumer brands refuse to compete with cheaper UK goods . |
| 27 | Holiday bookings are up 20% on last year and the stresses and strains of the recession and high interest rates are forcing smaller travel operators out of business . |
| 28 | The growth of Eurosites , the company 's camping holiday subsidiary , has also been impressive , with bookings up 42% on last year . |
| 29 | The company is recommending a final dividend of 4.1p per share , making a total for the year of 5.8p , up 14pc on last year 's payout of 5.1p . |
| 30 | Tandy 's US retail sales for Aprch totalled $274.9m , up 13% on last year and stores open for more than a year rose 4% . |