Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite having a virtual monopoly of business from its " host " purchaser , the acute unit felt unable to compete successfully for GP referrals with providers on the periphery of the district because of their old buildings and facilities . |
| 2 | Presumably for tax reasons , most refused to list their incomes and the magazine compiled its list with educated guesses , as Forbes and Fortune do with their much longer , global rich-lists . |
| 3 | Elizabeth : fearing worst for compensation claims |
| 4 | This initially meant that the bed-wetter would be made to sleep in the guard-room , where during the night he would be wakened hourly for toilet purposes . |
| 5 | The change of chip is largely a political move , since the CPU is used mostly for housekeeping matters on an Auspex server , the main work is carried out through a series of custom and ASIC chips handling Ethernet , File and Storage processing . |
| 6 | Back in the city , Sam and Graeme had owned a prop hire business , lending out country antiques , backgrounds and surfaces to photographers and stylists , mostly for cookery pictures . |
| 7 | John is an ex-international steeplechaser turned entrepreneurial agent , and he and Kim McDonald both do a fine job , mostly for distance runners , in finding all-important overseas competition for British athletes . |
| 8 | By and large , information stored in files or computers is used mostly for packaging proposals and rarely for learning or initiating and evaluating alternative courses of action . |
| 9 | And that 's mostly for generator sets and pumping station equipment . |
| 10 | He said 56 people had treatment at the hospital , mostly for shrapnel wounds . |
| 11 | They are ‘ read-only ’ because they are commonly produced commercially for database users , many of which are libraries . |
| 12 | The A fifty nine has a number of constraints upon it , including best and most versatile agricultural land , its its difficulty of assimilating a new settlement , but as I say most importantly for highway reasons . |
| 13 | She watched it keenly through opera glasses from the third row of the empty stalls , and I do n't know how the poor actress carried on under the circumstances . |
| 14 | The higher uplands and mountain areas in the south , west and east of the Auvergne are used predominantly for dairy cattle of various breeds , though sheep are also commonplace . |
| 15 | The impoundments — predominantly for policy purposes — totalled in excess of $18 billion , double the amount officially reported by the administration and far above the comparable action of any previous president . ’ |
| 16 | Officially described as Fibresand ( a composite of silica sand reinforced with rot-proof synthetic fibres ) , which is used widely for exercise gallops , the Southwell track is actually a mixture of Fibresand , rubber particles and polymer . |
| 17 | As has been mentioned , this system of sales solicitation is used very rarely for end customers and only sparingly in industrial markets , but in North America it has reached a position where there are many complaints about such telephone calls being classed as an ‘ invasion of privacy ’ . |
| 18 | For example , a contravention of this principle would occur if an organisation were to register the holding of personal data for purposes of personnel management , and use it additionally for marketing purposes . |
| 19 | More importantly off season holidays when there are no children around . |
| 20 | Complex derivatives of phenols , chlorinated and compounded with an anionic base , have been used widely as glassware agents in the licensed trades until the advent of bisguanides . |
| 21 | The 29-year-old complained bitterly about pin positions , said it was stupid that players shooting scores of ‘ 101 and 98 ’ should be allowed to compete and claimed a tournament allowing such poor players should not be a Ryder Cup points-counting event . |
| 22 | He had a few animals , got a small catch-crop of grain , but probably lived mostly off government pensions , grants and subsidies to agriculture . |
| 23 | The most recent studies suggest that more than a third of employers discriminate against black applicants for jobs , and that levels of discrimination are the same for Asian and Afro-Caribbean applicants , for men and women , and vary little between job categories , although previous studies have documented higher levels of racial discrimination in relation to unskilled manual jobs ( Brown and Gay , 1985 ; Smith , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | Secondly we were erm concerned that the county had not erm thought properly about employment densities , erm they have backed away from using employment density today as a significant calculator , but I hope you 've noticed sir that the erm the county 's mind set on employment densities is that whereas in the last structure plan they were working off a density , average density of thirty four workers for hectare . |
| 25 | Aussie skipper Border and pace bowler Merv Hughes , who was fined Pounds 185 , appealed vigorously for lbw decisions as tail-enders Ian Bishop and Courtney Walsh held out for a draw in Brisbane . |
| 26 | Whilst these problems arise acutely for family carers , who are so often grievously isolated socially , they are also salient to care staff in institutions , especially when staffing levels are inadequate . |
| 27 | Walking slowly through autumn streets he had been wrestling with the ways in which it appeared to him that Coleridge had made use of a now little known book , Ridley 's Tales of the Genii . |
| 28 | Do n't forget to add a little for price increases . |
| 29 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 30 | Caroline Little for family reasons had to give up many of her recreational classes , but started a class for stroke victims which has provided so beneficial and popular that it has now been recognised in an official capacity . |