Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Consultations , mostly for minor ailments , are characteristically brief . |
| 32 | The generation of power from nuclear fission , generating intense radioactivity , has been developed and used commercially for several decades to meet part of the world demand for electrical energy . |
| 33 | They do not occur naturally , but were produced commercially for 50 years , beginning in 1929 . |
| 34 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |
| 35 | But sound reasoning led those original optimists astray for two reasons . |
| 36 | Several inherited the throne in childhood , even in early infancy — ‘ Woe to the kingdom whose king is a child ’ — and were oppressed or imprisoned by their regents and guardians , kidnapped by the English , or bandied to and fro between powerful nobles . |
| 37 | The issue flared up when the party was doing badly for other reasons , and subsided when it was not . |
| 38 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 39 | They were all Dreamers , and if Daine was n't brought back to Princetown , things would go badly for all Dreamers everywhere . |
| 40 | The regime was fated to end badly for both participants — but whose the greater fault remains a matter for debate . |
| 41 | But they will expect rewards for their loyalty later , which augurs badly for forthcoming debates on both the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) , which many liberals oppose , and on welfare reform . |
| 42 | The Norwich civil servant thought the trip would be a complete waste of time after arriving to find the lake completely frozen over but the pike fed furiously for three hours . |
| 43 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 44 | go beating onward between iced alders |
| 45 | Equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) can be solved analytically for spherical impactors in an isothermal atmosphere if and C H are held constant . |
| 46 | Nine pilots competed , the most for some years . |
| 47 | somewhere between Carmelite vows |
| 48 | This type of observation suggests , perhaps , that the most accurate commentaries on the urban disturbances have emerged from those adopting positions somewhere between neo-Marxist interpretations and the central reformist tradition ( Rex , 1982 ) . |
| 49 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 50 | It had happened in Fred Wheeler 's district — geographically the largest in the whole area , and an important catchment for potable supply — on a main road out in the country , somewhere between two towns about 15 miles apart . |
| 51 | The minimum fell somewhere between maternal ages 20 and 35 years and , from the minimum , the proportion of still births increased again towards older maternal age where , in most samples , it became higher than at the younger end of the maternal age scale . |
| 52 | Performance on any task therefore , from playing tennis , to taking exams , to going to work , will be impaired if anxiety is too high or too low , but somewhere between these lies the ideal degree of anxiety for producing our best performance . |
| 53 | The true picture lies somewhere between these extremes . |
| 54 | In between you have elite , offbeat , unusual , mass and so on but they all lie somewhere between these extremes in terms of totally interacting and totally ignoring in many cases . |
| 55 | Most texts will lie somewhere between these extremes ; textual corpora in particular will tend more to the latter extreme . |
| 56 | But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear . |
| 57 | Almost all children have tantrums , and they start having them at about the same age — somewhere between 20–30 months . |
| 58 | D' you know , the tree has n't flowered properly for six years . |
| 59 | She has n't been outside the refuge properly for two weeks . |
| 60 | It 's extremely noisy because the surfacing at one stage just did n't take properly for all sorts of reasons the traffic along there is increasing quite dramatically and I hope that will be part of those schemes . |