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 .
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