Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
2 | But I heard them shouting , right through these walls . |
3 | Hot gases from pyrites burners , mixed with steam , were passed over small blocks of moulded salt , a process which worked successfully for many years ; the works was absorbed by the United Alkali Co. in 1890 and the last Hargreaves–Robinson saltcake plant closed in 1918 . |
4 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
5 | In 1961 , Arnold Claisse became President , a post he held most successfully for 10 years , during which the niggles about the bondholding autocracy increased and first surfaced formally at the 1970 Annual General Meeting . |
6 | A principal aim is , of course , to present the pupils successfully for external exams . |
7 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
8 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
9 | A spokesman for the county council said : ‘ Before that unfortunate incident it had been working very successfully for several hours . |
10 | However , quite small areas of land can be used successfully for conservation programmes , provided they are kept free of pesticides and contain the plants on which butterflies feed , such as clover , thistles and stinging nettles . |
11 | The fusion reaction has in fact technically been achieved at the Princeton Tokomak fusion test reactor which operated successfully for 50 milliseconds . |
12 | D. The managers know that labour is available locally for new industries . |
13 | We 've been retrying to get recognition nationally and locally for fifteen years . |
14 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
15 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
16 | Despite such criticisms , Scottish mental health services have often been in the vanguard of community care developments , with services evolving locally for pragmatic reasons . |
17 | Our film stock and equipment , which comprised some nine-tenths of our travelling weight , had to be husbanded first past the Pac-Man thicket of Customs and Immigration , thence through unpredictable months in the jungles , and finally out of the country again intact and undetained . |
18 | L-G-17 or the control solution was administered subcutaneously through osmotic minipumps ( ALZET 2 ML1 , ALZA Corp , Palo Alto , Calif , USA ) implanted on the back of the rats under general anaesthesia ( 0.2 ml 100 g/body weight of a solution containing fluanisone 2.5 mg/ml , phentanyl 0.05 mg/ml , and midazolam 1.25 mg/ml ) . |
19 | But that 's for a mobility assistant where I go in and befriend somebody and they employ me to take them somewhere for two hours . |
20 | From March 1645 , when he became deputy licenser to Rushworth , until March 1647 when both men were dismissed , presumably for political reasons , Mabbott 's name appears regularly in the Stationers ' Company register . |
21 | In the Seine basin , landlords created hospitia , free tenures , presumably for similar reasons . |
22 | If the birth of her child was to take place in London as had been arranged , then presumably for some weeks beforehand she would have to remain in the Harley Street flat , kicking her heels or at least suffering the kicks inside her , which she had greatly come to resent . |
23 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
24 | Graduate job prospects ‘ worst for 60 years . ’ |
25 | The great metabolic activity of insects during flight is indicated by their greatly increased oxygen consumption under these conditions ( e.g. Davis and Fraenkel , 1940 ) and as flight continues uninterruptedly for many hours in some species , a reserve of oxidizable material is required ( Sacktor , 5970 ) . |
26 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
27 | 1,453 were arrested and processed in mobile booking offices , mostly for petty offences like delinquent traffic tickets or curfew violations . |
28 | These are active and sociable holidays , mostly for two weeks , for 30 to 40 guests at a time . |
29 | Here are some ways of using cardboard cones , mostly for green-fingered knitters . |
30 | Thus we have low status , low paid women care assistants , given little overt recognition for the demanding and difficult task they do , caring mostly for elderly women . |