Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the wheels of bureaucracy take time to run , and British winter weather is rarely kind to fliers , while seaplanes have the additional disadvantage of needing several ground-crew and suitable tides as well as suffering all the constraints of more conventional land aircraft . |
| 2 | Hay & Maddock 93 , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 3 | Hay & Maddock , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 4 | Under Queen Anne parties of a modern kind did not exist ; but it is possible to speak without gross inaccuracy of Parliament and the politically active part of the nation as being divided for the most part into Whigs and Tories . |
| 5 | Constructed for the most part in terms of a technology that was , by comparison with the main technologies of the nineteenth century , primitive and unsystematic , there were few really significant improvements to them through the century and by 1900 they provided no semblance of a genuine transport service . |
| 6 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 7 | Health risks were matters of acceptance for the most part by employers and workers alike . |
| 8 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 9 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 10 | Only in warmer , damper regions have they a chance to acquire the organic debris — mostly fragments of algae , fungi , lichens and mosses — that allows them to develop further into humic soils ( Figure 3.6B-D ) . |
| 11 | At this level there appears to be little cross-association of elements , e.g. all of those inclusions listed under " form " , in section 2.3 ( all section numbers refer to the under discussion , unless otherwise indicated ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's mostly kids after cassettes or petty cash in the glove compartment . ’ |
| 13 | Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced . |
| 14 | In 1988 , only 23% of women aged 75 and over were married . |
| 15 | where the tenant occupies only part of premises , and therefore the landlord is suffering financially by not being able to let the property as a whole ; |
| 16 | Furthermore , body measurements at birth are only proxies for variables more closely related to the processes that underlie programming . |
| 17 | When we started , only 17pc of pubs were selling real ale , now that figure is 64pc . |
| 18 | We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined . |
| 19 | The language of special education had long been tucked under my belt , but now I was faced with filling in timetables with terms such as ‘ DD ’ time — departmental duties , to the uninitiated — in other words , time when I was not actually in direct teaching contact with students . |
| 20 | The net result of all this is that a 740Kb disk could supply you with perhaps 3Mb of programs . |
| 21 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 22 | In 1990 , they made only $3m on revenues of $70m . |
| 23 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 24 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 25 | Look for simple processes : especially pairs of 2-cycles or single 3-cycles , by using commutators and other subgroups 4 . |
| 26 | There are obviously loads of permutations . |
| 27 | On the part of the plaintiff , it has been urged that the cases cited for the defendant were not cases where actions had already been brought , but only cases of promises to forbear commencing proceedings . |
| 28 | The meeting was held only hours after police found and defused an IRA bomb in a telephone box in a street close to Downing Street . |
| 29 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 30 | For my return to the Beethoven sonatas , I have devised a new playing order which keeps together groups of pieces that are under one opus number or adjacent . |