Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kevin Brown , the reigning North-East half marathon champion , was troubled by a stitch but battled on gamely to finish in 33rd position in 67.11 . |
| 2 | Thank you for your invitation , declined as I am long since engaged for 6th if in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | For example , there has been a good deal of solid research on the changing nature of the mining industries in the Third World , once entirely and now less entirely dominated by First World TNCs . |
| 4 | Yeah well of course only just gone from last bloody night have n't they ? |
| 5 | Our advice for the first launch is — hands together , arms outstretched ( but never above your head as is so often attempted by first time flyers ) and as the kite rises , sustain an even line tension . |
| 6 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 7 | The balance is excellent in the Cello Concerto but I felt that the violin was fractionally too close in the Double Concerto with the cello less well focused at first but improving later . |
| 8 | The well-organised firm does not just look at last year and add ten per cent . |
| 9 | The only parts of the Home Support Project which were not clearly understood at first were ( a ) its method of obtaining clients ( it was sometimes thought that any dementia sufferer in the borough could be referred directly to the development officer ) , and ( b ) the fact that the development officers could not step in immediately the psychogeriatrician referred a client to the project , but had to wait until the research assessment had been carried out ( which would confirm the client 's eligibility for the project service ) . |
| 10 | Too often , however , producers have not even got to first base , because the requirements for evolving strong scripts have been so poorly understood . |
| 11 | The algorithm is not continuously diverted from depth-first into breadth-first search simply by virtue of picking up additional cost , as is the shortfall method . |
| 12 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 13 | The Reichs Archives speak of the day 's fighting being ‘ one of the most heroic ’ of the entire battle , an adjective not infreqently used by First World War officialdom when casualties had been particularly hideous . |
| 14 | There is no problem or embarrassment about this as long as you do n't mind panic stricken knocks on door ( s ) to get clothes if the right things not previously taken for next day ! ! |
| 15 | This is important because it is directly relevant to understanding the mechanism of a type of eruption not yet observed at first hand by any human being , but one that would make the Mt Pelee eruption pale into insignificance if an example were to occur today . |
| 16 | Here it is important to see that the traditional category of plural is not symmetrically applied to first Person in the way it is to third : we does not mean plural speakers in the same way that they means more than one third person entity ( Lyons , 1968 : 277 ) . |
| 17 | The old lady was not mentally impaired on first impression . |
| 18 | I 've just recently changed to Next but I used to buy them from Oxfam when I used to live here . |
| 19 | With the folks back home still seething after last week 's World Cup disaster in Norway , Taylor 's future is on a knife-edge . |
| 20 | With the folks back home still seething after last week 's World Cup disaster in Norway , Taylor 's future is on a knife-edge in his opening US Cup game in New England 's Foxboro stadium . |
| 21 | I detest the fact that ‘ Guernica ’ was not taken from its stretcher and rolled up so destroying at last the inferior , flimsy substance with which it was painted . |
| 22 | If it is late in the year ( September onwards ) , they will probably not hatch until next spring ( April ) . |
| 23 | The latter is now much restored in nineteenth century Gothic style as a museum . |
| 24 | So he kept saying , oh do n't bother going out tonight go after next Saturday for an hour like . |
| 25 | You brought out here begin at last to unbind . |
| 26 | But the broadcasts have confused voters — the number of don't-knows has risen to almost half — and produced complex movements in the far-from-reliable opinion polls , where four candidates are now closely bunched in second position behind a fast-flagging leader . |
| 27 | ‘ He was n't too enthralled at first but he listened after a while and I 've left him thinking about it . |
| 28 | Living economically almost came as second nature . |
| 29 | Eliot is able to recall Shakespeare closely enough to suggest at first sight that an ironic contrast is aimed at , but also to present the possibility that the allusion functions as the poetic equivalent of a legal fiction . |
| 30 | Students in schools are too often exposed to 19th century technology ( paper-bound administration systems , blackboards and chalk ) yet in their homes many have learnt to become competent in the technologies of the 20th century . |