Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 He played well enough for Staart last year , and the loan period should be in time for Olsen to select the finals squad .
2 Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning .
3 As I recall , then , it was only an hour or so after being first entrusted with the mission that I noticed the young Mr Cardinal alone in the library , sitting at one of the writing tables , absorbed in some documents .
4 But he thought the Seasiders played better against Blackpool last Saturday when they went down 2–1 to the Fourth Division leaders .
5 EVEN Arsenal , who carried the distinction back to London , would not claim that they played well enough in Glasgow last night to be the undisputed champions of anywhere , no matter the vainglorious subtitle given to this friendly .
6 EVEN Arsenal , who carried the distinction back to London , would not claim that they played well enough in Glasgow last night to be the undisputed champions of anywhere , no matter the vainglorious subtitle given to this friendly .
7 But that and much , much more all in store next week .
8 Next has ceased all hardware production , fulfilling customer orders only until May 25th , when NextStep on Intel becomes available .
9 From Boxing Day normal services will operate daily until January 1st .
10 It was only in autumn last year that Mr Huang , 41 , came to England to make his home with his wife .
11 It 's only in front first time round .
12 Addressing the fragmented state of personal computer systems management , Intel Corp , Microsoft Corp , Novell Inc , Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunConnect and SynOptics Communications Inc came together in Washington last week to announce that they are working together to address iAPX-86-based workstation management issues , specifically resource management , configuration management , performance analysis , software monitoring and security .
13 Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and IBM Corp came together in Paris last week to put the finishing touches to their collaborations , announcing successful conclusion of specific contracts that comprise the far-reaching open-systems technology and associated manufacturing alliance announced on January 28 .
14 The militia was much in evidence last January during a week of demonstrations in the centre of Prague in memory of Jan Palach , the student who had burned himself to death in public protest 20 years before .
15 It was a concoction much in evidence last week , when Mr Lilley made his only appearance in the North-East during the election campaign .
16 Those BCRS members who attended our Silver Wedding party at the Gwili Railway will be sorry to hear that Roger Lote , who was the fireman that day , died suddenly on Friday 18th January .
17 Who , according to The Times , ‘ wobbled alarmingly on September 16th ’ ?
18 So on March 26th Saudi Arabia signalled Iran 's return to international respectability by resuming the diplomatic relations that had been broken in 1987 after an appalling incident at Mecca when 400 pilgrims , most of them Iranian , were killed .
19 Mr Mesic should have done so on May 15th , in line with a procedure used since the actual adoption of the rotating presidency in 1980 .
20 So on February 6th of this year , while Mr Dubois was closing his file and writing to the LTA accordingly , Tretorn , having considered its position , went ahead with its complaint to the EC Commission .
21 And on April 29th France suddenly decided not to lift its border controls , despite promises that it would do so on July 1st under the Schengen agreement that aims to abolish passport controls for citizens of nine of the 12 members states .
22 ‘ At about ten o'clock on May 20th , ’ he began , ‘ a man driving a petrol tanker on the north to south highway of Stowerton by-pass saw a car overturned and in flames on the fast lane of the south to north track .
23 ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’
24 DICK CLEMENT AND Ian La Frenais have an impeccable track record in comedy from The Likely Lads to Auf Wiedersehen , Pet , and Channel 4 's shameless nostalgia series TV Heaven resurrected their 1973 sitcom Thick As Thieves last Saturday .
25 Mr Endara was sworn in as President shortly after midnight last night , on a US military base , in the presence of a US Major-General , with members of Panamanian human rights groups as witnesses .
26 He has said , and subsequently confirmed , that he will step down shortly after March 27th , when the King is due to award him a medal .
27 Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action .
28 I shall be away until January 11th , but need to process this information IMMEDIATELY I get back , so please , please , please have it waiting on my doorstep .
29 DRINK-DRIVING laws , health worries and shrinking wallets kept even more people away from pubs last summer .
30 Meanwhile the indefatigable Joanna Castle is taking yet another group of children around part of her downlands on the Ridgeway , where the calves they met last year are now only a year away from being next year 's Sunday roast
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