Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 It does reflect right through society er still does n't , the message still does n't get home , and I would like to move Mr Chairman , that er we do again er write and see if we can get some special recognition of this very serious problem that there is .
2 ‘ You can see right through Doddie 's head now .
3 To provide water for farmers and city dwellers , three sections of the marsh were surrounded with dikes and set aside from development , each one a kind of captured remnant of Everglades , but wholly for man 's use .
4 SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc .
5 The earliest extant account of this is to be found in the Works and Days of Hesiod ( c.700 BC ) , who sought to account thereby for man 's present condition and , in particular , for his need to work .
6 I feel a certain sympathy for their wallflower purity , none for their legislators ' regard for the morals of others , and most for Mapplethorpe 's prophylaxis .
7 It fitted everything Tony insists is the East 17 mould , a ‘ real ’ , personalised romp lurking somewhere between EMF 's sense of fun(k) and the communal catastrophe of Flowered Up .
8 Claiming they 've found a balance somewhere between Jane 's Addiction and Jefferson Airplane , 8 Storey Window are an unashamed , intense , jamming rock band who are happiest when the drums are doing their own Ginger Baker thing and the guitar is taking a stroll in the stratosphere .
9 ‘ What you 're telling me , Tallboy , ’ said the Superintendent with practised distaste , ‘ is that the sum total of knowledge gleaned by almost the entire Medewich police force , continuously engaged over the last ten days comes to this : Paul Gray was murdered on Thursday or Friday July first or second , somewhere between Markham cum Cumbermound and Medewich , by persons unknown , at a time not yet established , at a place not yet identified , for an as yet undiscovered reason .
10 Perhaps somewhere between Goebel 's string texture on period instruments and the Amsterdam Bach Soloists ' mixed strings and woodwinds using modern instruments .
11 In fact what strikes me most forcibly about Lyell 's pillars is not their evidence of placid uniformitarianism but rather of episodic " catastrophism " .
12 From this garden Coleridge could either walk on through Poole 's orchard and a ‘ fine meadow ’ to the home of his new friends , John and Anna Cruikshank , or he could negotiate Poole 's tanyard and its ‘ Tartarean tan-pits ’ to reach the Castle Street house itself .
13 He touched the black enamelled visor of his helmet in answer to the salute of the red-coated sentry who stood outside an expensive front door , then cantered on through Brussels ' fashionable streets until he reached a large house on the rue de la Blanchisserie .
14 ‘ If I 'm right and the link is money , who knows most about Wheeler 's financial affairs ? ’
15 This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation .
16 ‘ Who employed there would know most about Hauser 's day-to-day work , the orders he gives ? ’
17 It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later .
18 Now schools can ‘ opt out ’ from local authority control , so that the people who care most about children 's futures — especially parents and teachers — are together empowered to make the key decisions .
19 Down coast , a district referred to locally as Belfast 's Beverley Hills .
20 The mills are in Heaton Road , and the boilerhouse chimney , 255 feet high , is in the style of a Venetian campanile and is known locally as Lister 's Pride .
21 It was known locally as Shane 's Castle , Shane presumably being the toll-house keeper .
22 The Branch , which is known locally as Bolton 's oldest bank , has its origins in a banking partnership formed in 1818 by five businessman — Robert Barlow , wine merchant , Thomas Hardcastle and James Ormrod , cotton spinners , and James Cross and Thomas Rushton , solicitors .
23 The business carried on , despite the 1932 fire , until 1935 , when it changed hands , becoming the Stroud Flock Company and later known locally as Lipsey 's Flock Mill .
24 And he talked effectively about Britain 's place in Europe and the world .
25 The task now imposed on everyone , and especially those preparing to spend the weekend in Strasbourg , is to think big and flexibly about Europe 's future .
26 So , I do get a bit ac , I mean , th there 's , there 's one young girl in the class and , we were on about women 's role in society and going on about third world woman , but even western woman have their position , you know , she does the housework
27 Pollitt thundered on about Italy 's invasion of Abyssinia which he and his party roundly condemned .
28 I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't .
29 He can waffle on about OPEC ad infinitum , and most clients wo n't know what the hell he 's talking about , but they 'll pretend to agree with him and will buy on the strength of what he says .
30 Whooshing on about David 's beauty and elegance on the top layer , she carves her and her disciples up a treat underneath .
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