Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they dig a trench right down and this is the number of the trench . |
| 2 | After a few months the initial enthusiasm for d-i-y started to wane , and the pace slowed right down as most of the rooms were completed . |
| 3 | Both the RDP and the NDRP occupied the nebulous centre ground of South Korean politics and were distinct only in that each had a strong regional basis . |
| 4 | On this analysis , the x differs from this x and that x only in that this x is marked " + proximal " , that x is marked " - proximal " , and the x is unmarked for proximity , i.e. it is a neutral deictic term ( Lyons , 1977a : 653-4 ) . |
| 5 | I tuned in halfway through as this guy was complaining about the official . |
| 6 | Her spine was so tense , her shoulders so rigid , that she ached all over and that empty and gnawing pain in her stomach seemed to increase in severity as dusk approached and the hour when son and husband would return grew closer . |
| 7 | Perhaps the seamen , with the advantage of the 10s increase at the beginning of 1913 and the £poundl increase of the Admiralty Agreement , were better off than many others in the early months of the war . |
| 8 | The working man 's 47.7 hours a week in 1964 should have earned him £18.11 ( say £162 a week now ) , but MPs were about to become markedly better off than that as Mr Wilson increased their salaries from £1750 to £3250 per annum ( £29,120 ) . |
| 9 | Most of us , children of tradesmen , miners and semi-skilled factory workers , were better off than that and had higher hopes , though there was a good scattering of nits and lice and dirty feet around the classroom when the nurse came to do her inspection . |
| 10 | Despite the poor conditions in many towns , Margaret Loane , a health visitor , felt that the family of the pre-World War I urban labourer , earning 20/ a week and renting a small house or half a house , was better off than that of his rural counterpart , earning 13/ a week and living in a free , but often damp and usually overcrowded cottage . |
| 11 | Efforts made by communist states to reduce inequalities vary , but it is generally true that bureaucrats are better off than those they rule . |
| 12 | In that respect they are better off than those who simply inherited the wealth , and now have no real idea how to set about replacing what they have lost . |
| 13 | It seems that older people in Britain are better off than some other groups dependent upon welfare for their source of income ; but they have not improved their situation with regard to those in employment . |
| 14 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 15 | The five hundred locals who live there are better off than any of us , because they get a percentage of the profits . ’ |
| 16 | Dunphy , an Irish international , was better off than most , but the awful uncertainty of the job , the fear of failure or injury , were always present . |
| 17 | With only 400,000 people and lots of bauxite , there is no good reason why Suriname should not be as democratic as and rather better off than most of the little states of the Caribbean . |
| 18 | They were rather better off than most , I think , and they owned an inn called New Spittal , between Bowes and Brough , over to the west . |
| 19 | Her mother , my Grandmother Anne , was a Sayers , and they were the Manor House family in Bowes and rather better off than most . |
| 20 | This nursery in Swindon is better off than most , because it 's subsidised by Thamesdown Council . |
| 21 | Fortunately the London Union has been strong enough to keep them entirely out but these London houses , as soon as they get beyond the sphere of the … |
| 22 | The fleece must be sealed to the ground all round and any holes must be repaired using fleece patches and glue or by stapling the edges together . |
| 23 | Given this level of joint working it is not surprising that 83 per cent of DGMs agree that " it would be better all round if this DHA and FHSA merged " . |
| 24 | Difficult for bread-and-butter manufacturers , never mind the makers of cars so far off the scale ( up to £80,000 for the 600SEL Merc and twice that for the Bentley ) that by any rational thinking they belong to a different era altogether — one without recession , a war just over and all the current uncertainties . |
| 25 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 26 | It emerged early on that each side was determined to deny the other the means of generating enough income not only to prosecute the war but also to govern the country . |
| 27 | Check early on whether these will be allowed ; the information is normally contained in the details which accompany the application form . |
| 28 | You made one wrong diagnosis early on and that was the end , was n't it ? |
| 29 | and now it 's a wee bit further on than that |
| 30 | No it goes further on than that , I 'm on tape three . |