Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does reflect right through society er still does n't , the message still does n't get home , and I would like to move Mr Chairman , that er we do again er write and see if we can get some special recognition of this very serious problem that there is . |
| 2 | ‘ You can see right through Doddie 's head now . |
| 3 | To provide water for farmers and city dwellers , three sections of the marsh were surrounded with dikes and set aside from development , each one a kind of captured remnant of Everglades , but wholly for man 's use . |
| 4 | SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander acknowledges the Solaris ‘ endorsements ’ he got last week from the hardware community are kind of lukewarm and skimpy — see page two — but he still claims , mostly for Destiny 's benefit , that he 's got the only tested and proven big-time distribution channel , namely Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 5 | The earliest extant account of this is to be found in the Works and Days of Hesiod ( c.700 BC ) , who sought to account thereby for man 's present condition and , in particular , for his need to work . |
| 6 | I feel a certain sympathy for their wallflower purity , none for their legislators ' regard for the morals of others , and most for Mapplethorpe 's prophylaxis . |
| 7 | It fitted everything Tony insists is the East 17 mould , a ‘ real ’ , personalised romp lurking somewhere between EMF 's sense of fun(k) and the communal catastrophe of Flowered Up . |
| 8 | Claiming they 've found a balance somewhere between Jane 's Addiction and Jefferson Airplane , 8 Storey Window are an unashamed , intense , jamming rock band who are happiest when the drums are doing their own Ginger Baker thing and the guitar is taking a stroll in the stratosphere . |
| 9 | ‘ What you 're telling me , Tallboy , ’ said the Superintendent with practised distaste , ‘ is that the sum total of knowledge gleaned by almost the entire Medewich police force , continuously engaged over the last ten days comes to this : Paul Gray was murdered on Thursday or Friday July first or second , somewhere between Markham cum Cumbermound and Medewich , by persons unknown , at a time not yet established , at a place not yet identified , for an as yet undiscovered reason . |
| 10 | Perhaps somewhere between Goebel 's string texture on period instruments and the Amsterdam Bach Soloists ' mixed strings and woodwinds using modern instruments . |
| 11 | In fact what strikes me most forcibly about Lyell 's pillars is not their evidence of placid uniformitarianism but rather of episodic " catastrophism " . |
| 12 | ‘ If I 'm right and the link is money , who knows most about Wheeler 's financial affairs ? ’ |
| 13 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 14 | ‘ Who employed there would know most about Hauser 's day-to-day work , the orders he gives ? ’ |
| 15 | It was the unhappy love that taught me most about love 's nature — though not at the time , not until years later . |
| 16 | Now schools can ‘ opt out ’ from local authority control , so that the people who care most about children 's futures — especially parents and teachers — are together empowered to make the key decisions . |
| 17 | Down coast , a district referred to locally as Belfast 's Beverley Hills . |
| 18 | The mills are in Heaton Road , and the boilerhouse chimney , 255 feet high , is in the style of a Venetian campanile and is known locally as Lister 's Pride . |
| 19 | It was known locally as Shane 's Castle , Shane presumably being the toll-house keeper . |
| 20 | The Branch , which is known locally as Bolton 's oldest bank , has its origins in a banking partnership formed in 1818 by five businessman — Robert Barlow , wine merchant , Thomas Hardcastle and James Ormrod , cotton spinners , and James Cross and Thomas Rushton , solicitors . |
| 21 | The business carried on , despite the 1932 fire , until 1935 , when it changed hands , becoming the Stroud Flock Company and later known locally as Lipsey 's Flock Mill . |
| 22 | And he talked effectively about Britain 's place in Europe and the world . |
| 23 | The task now imposed on everyone , and especially those preparing to spend the weekend in Strasbourg , is to think big and flexibly about Europe 's future . |
| 24 | Silas spoke to the sister in charge of the ward , who told him a little about Bertha 's injuries . |
| 25 | But they have said little about law 's part in the mosaic . |
| 26 | Apart from the Liberal Democrats , the politicians are saying little about Britain 's future relationship with the EC . |
| 27 | If I have said comparatively little about Elizabeth 's short stories , it is not at all from lack of admiration though , like Ivy ( I think ) , I very much prefer the novel as a form . |
| 28 | The following days papers contained surprisingly little about Puddephat 's disappearance . |
| 29 | Some of Jacqui 's clothes bore the label ‘ Designed by Jacqui Smale for Laura Ashley ’ and Veronica Papworth , fashion editor of the Sunday Express , had written flatteringly about Jacqui 's work . |
| 30 | An ardent but always non-violent feminist , she campaigned vigorously for women 's rights , fought hard to improve rudimentary state education and medical services , and was one of the first women to stand for election to a borough council after the passing of the Qualification of Women Act in 1907 . |