Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite possibly some of our breeding birds use one or two alternative sites , perhaps particularly where they are breeding on rather small stretches of water . |
| 2 | We were sitting on rather low chairs , and he was very tall , so that when he placed himself at my corner his impedimenta were almost on a level with my nose . |
| 3 | ‘ We parted on rather poor terms , ’ she said lightly . |
| 4 | Mr Godfray also suggested that the constructive approach would be to stress to MPs the importance of books in education and training — two of the government 's pet issues — rather than concentrating on an anti-VAT message , which might fall on rather deafer ears . |
| 5 | Now the bounds are becoming blurred and they take on rather broader questions of the social good and morality , personal and public . |
| 6 | Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style . |
| 7 | They really must realise that time and time again being equivocal on defence when you 're on the left of centre means that voters somehow do n't vote for you , and I think they 've had to learn this lesson yet again and I only hope that by the er December elections in West Germany the Social Democratic Party who I 've got a great deal of er sympathy for on most social issues will be firm and clear about a united Germany not being neutral and within NATO . |
| 8 | Some spend their time inland on headwaters where streams are small and flows are low , while others work on predominantly tidal rivers where dilution is easily achieved and any pollution carried out to sea . |
| 9 | Some of the museums that I support directly — for example , the Victoria and Albert museum and the science museum , and also the Crafts Council — often lay on extremely good displays of contemporary or past design work . |
| 10 | This does not mean embarking on extremely vigorous pursuits , although people in their 70s and 80s still run marathons ! |
| 11 | At a recent training course that I 've been on apparently public services could have been protected since nineteen eighty one . |
| 12 | The upland moors in Britain generally lie on naturally acidic rocks and soils . |
| 13 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 14 | Even after repair works on the generators had been done , only two of them operated satisfactorily forcing the factory to work on only two shifts instead of the usual three . |
| 15 | There are a number of types of experiment , but I shall concentrate on only two techniques in order to illustrate how lasers come to the aid of the nuclear physicist . |
| 16 | The feeling is , I think , that it 's a lot to spend on only four boys . |
| 17 | In 1906 – 14 successive foreign ministers were authorised by the tsar to report to it on only five occasions . |
| 18 | Shortly after his return Gresley appointed him assistant carriage and wagon superintendent , in which capacity he introduced numerous innovations including modernized train interiors ; a completely articulated five-coach train set carried on only six bogies , in whose kitchen electric cooking was pioneered ; and also twin articulated sleeping cars . |
| 19 | In a tenth of a second it passes on only six digits of code to other neurones yet the brain works seemingly simultaneously . |
| 20 | Yesterday the crossing was in operation again , amid local claims that the warning lights came on only 10 seconds before trains go through . |
| 21 | The award was the second international recognition of SHARQ 's safety record in 1991 — in November SHARQ received the British Safety Council 's Sword of Honour , an award bestowed on only 30 companies worldwide . |
| 22 | This is in sharp contrast to the pattern at the last observation in hospital , where activity levels tended to peak on only three occasions ( breakfast , lunch , and tea ) . |
| 23 | In some circumstances , the numeric values we wish to represent and manipulate take on only non-negative values . |
| 24 | The procedure encourages parties to tax on only those issues that are the subject of dispute between them . |
| 25 | Here we will focus on only those aspects of the family which are central to the issue of gender inequality , while chapter 6 is concerned with a wider range of issues . |
| 26 | The novelistic density of Andrien 's film makes the well-meant Canadian picture Bye Bye Blues ( director , Anne Wheeler ) , which touches on somewhat related themes though it is set during the war , seem merely novelettish . |
| 27 | The other two explanations appear to rest on somewhat inchoate versions of learning theory in claiming that teaching quality results from learned knowledge , skill , and other technical expertise acquired through initial training and further professional experience . |
| 28 | They had lost weight by taking appetite suppressors , fasting or going on highly restrictive diets they could not sustain , avoiding all favourite foods . |
| 29 | Sexual encounters — which may include nudity and lovemaking even when the protagonists are not married — should concentrate on highly erotic sensations … |
| 30 | Erm there have been times doing work which we have er , worked on together different jobs when I have thought , yes this is what I 'm here for . |