Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also desperately need to install a safe and economical heating system — this has been talked about for too many years . |
| 2 | And even when they reached home and she and John were at last alone together , she could not forgo the homecoming she had dreamed of for so many weeks . |
| 3 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |
| 4 | As expected ( UX No 394 ) , IXI finally got its ‘ multi-million ’ OEM deal with DEC to the announcement stage last week , a process its been working towards for quite some time . |
| 5 | I think it it was a it it was a very bad er announcement for Lincolnshire , and er , on the strength of that , er , for the benefit of all of us in the county , I just like to lobe a few , as a minister for roads and traffic , er expressing our bitter disappointment really , 'cos it 's er , particularly on the T S G , it 's a , it 's a cut of of er , of forty five per cent against the er er er national cut of of of of of of about half of that . |
| 6 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 7 | I was engaged to be married once , an engagement that was a mistake and I was lucky to get out of without too much trouble and then I met you and that is the sum total of my ‘ sexual demands ’ as you put it . |
| 8 | The Ministry of Agriculture collaborated on the dog study and circulars have gone out urging villages to fence in their garbage dumps to deprive the animals of at least that source of food , but there is no wave of popular enthusiasm for slaughtering dogs wholesale . |
| 9 | There is often considerable contrapuntal interest , although not always : some of the arrangements degenerate into a languid succession of chords that do little to retain the interest of at least this listener . |
| 10 | We thought that a risk ratio of at least this size would be required for age to drive clinical decision-making . |
| 11 | This suspicion had two causes : he felt that many of the anthropologists underrated the significance of thought , and secondly he suspected the political motives of at least some of them . |
| 12 | Their directives pre-empt the force of at least some of the reasons which otherwise should have guided the actions of those people . |
| 13 | The presence of at least some specialist assistance has been shown to be essential for raising the standards of the whole team . |
| 14 | Broadly speaking , there is dependence in the early stages of the lifespan ; independence during adulthood ; and the likelihood of at least some degree of dependence again in old age . |
| 15 | The opportunities provided in the clinical area for teaching on a one to one or small group basis should enable the teacher to be aware of at least some of these differences in her students , and to make some provision for them in her teaching . |
| 16 | It is the belief of at least some hypnotherapists that the inability of some patients to be hypnotized is due to their subconscious fear that they will be unable to cope with what may come up and that they might go to pieces . |
| 17 | However homoeopathy is very successful in veterinary practice and it is theoretically possible that suitable animal tests could be devised for the study of at least some homoeopathic remedies . |
| 18 | Finally the lawyers for the families went to court again to try to obtain sight of at least some of the evidence against their clients . |
| 19 | Britain DOES expect the UN to take up its offer of at least some troops . |
| 20 | Improved recognition rates can be achieved , the process is no slower , and has obvious leanings to parallelisation of at least some stages of the recognition process . |
| 21 | The motivation to achieve at school in the face of what are the deflecting influences of at least some school teachers in some cases takes the form of a challenge . |
| 22 | If the quotation used by the qualitative sociologist is not too far from the heightened dialogue of the literary artist , it follows that , with only a little licence , one may use the work of at least some novelists much as one might use that of fellow ethnographers . |
| 23 | It is necessary also to enlarge our understanding of developmental mechanisms , and there is growing interest in the widespread occurrence of at least some regulatory genes in disparate phyla . |
| 24 | The commons had shown themselves increasingly adept at procuring political concessions in return for grants of taxes , and although they were at their most effective when they enjoyed the support of at least some sections of the nobility , they had gained substantially in experience and cohesion by the time the crisis of 1340–1 arose . |
| 25 | Among the Apterygota the retention of at least some abdominal appendages is a general feature . |
| 26 | Existing users of at least some footcare products , especially competitive brands . |
| 27 | British empiricism , and to a lesser extent German idealism , must have entered the bloodstream of at least some subjects . |
| 28 | The Athenian attempt was a fiasco , 10,000 colonists were killed and Athens turned to Egypt and Sicily where she was sure of at least some local support . |
| 29 | However , we were not able to know the outcome of those that had been tried ( which probably had a high proportion of not guilty pleas , this being the likely explanation for the delayed return of at least some of the files ) , so our data were , to this extent , incomplete . |
| 30 | They associated it particularly with fertility , and modern research is revealing that the moon does influence the reproductive cycles of at least some creatures . |