Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them .
2 Perhaps that meant most of the city 's population — it certainly included Deirdre .
3 erm On the question of the river samples and pool samples , yes , I think one of the city pools , one of the school pools we had a bit of a problem , so that took much of concentrated attention of it for a period of two or three weeks , so that 's probably a reflection , I do n't think much of it relates to the river sample .
4 On the other hand there 's a certain inertia principle operating , it is always easier for an administration to do less than to do more in dealing with the Middle East , and especially with the central Palestine problem .
5 If you wish to pay by Bankers Order then please complete the form below and send that to the RAFA with your membership application form .
6 Oh I did I went in , I went in to help them with anyway , I went in and did that with them anyway .
7 Oh and give her that ointment please , I have n't got it down and put this for the nurse .
8 Lay the herring fillets skin side down and put some of the finely chopped onion and gherkin mixture on each .
9 Put one piece of salmon skinside down and spread more of the mixture over the cut side .
10 They turned the telephone down and spent most of the evening at the cinema .
11 Commander Briggs had counselled Blanche to calm down and accept more of the things in the police she could not change .
12 I admire Leslie Kenton greatly and share many of her ideas , but bear in mind that dogs are predominately carnivores , and they thrive on good quality meat and protein , which their systems are designed to digest .
13 Why not sell all the unit-linked business for £500,000 or so and plough all of that into the with -profits policyholders ? ’
14 Look at what they 've done given nine billion to their wealthy friends to move them into private pensions supported pension holiday because company funds are so big increased national insurance so we 're all paying more , even though we get less and compare this with the disadvantage , women first .
15 You putting that bit of carpet down till your daddy come along and done that on it .
16 The value they were handing unnecessarily to the taxman offered a fine incentive to bidders to come along and do this for them .
17 I was going to say , when it comes to paragraph five , do you erm suggest that you actually think in terms of church organisations , they 're not mentioned , and I look forward in in paragraph seven one to the seminar , the working seminar that 's going to be in the near future , and I hope that we 'll soon get a date , so that we can get it in our very busy diaries , in the hope that we can come along and learn more about this .
18 If you 're doing twenty in a forty and a copper comes along and pulls both of you , it 's gon na be you that gets fucking done , not him !
19 And when we 've finished er I 'll come and hopefully pull everything together and take this onto the next stage which is the evaluation of the plan .
20 Palace beat Watford 3–0 , with these two men performing really well together and beginning another of Palace 's long-serving full-back partnerships .
21 What we can do , however , is take a sufficient number of adult males chosen randomly and use this as the basis of the calculation of the average , and take this as an estimate for the average of the population .
22 Thus , " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified , or so as to be unlike those from whom he wishes to be distinguished " ( Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985 : 181 )
23 This brings us back to Le Page 's hypothesis : " the individual creates for himself the patterns of his linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time he wishes to be identified " ; only now we can treat " linguistic behaviour " at a micro level , interpreting " from time to time " to mean even at different stages within the same conversation — perhaps even the same utterance .
24 Putting this another way , what is the mechanism whereby we " create … the patterns of … linguistic behaviour so as to resemble those of the group or groups with which from time to time [ we wish ] to be identified " ?
25 In a speech on 17 December 1945 Kim stressed the necessity for creating a wide range of party organisations in factories , enterprises and villages with the formulation of suitable criteria for party membership so as to eliminate some of the dubious elements which had recently joined the party .
26 The sensible interpretation would be to read the phrase ‘ not within the powers of this Act ’ so as to include any of the traditional heads of ultra vires and there is authority for this position .
27 As it was , however , the US was slowly , and not too slowly , getting itself into a position where its responsibilities tended to supplant rather than complement those of the French : and this was something which at least had to be offset against all the delays that would ensue in European rearmament .
28 First , instead of the size of the pool being determined solely by the demands made upon it by the local authorities , the global sum to be spent on advanced further education would be determined by the AFEC in consultation with the DES after it received estimates of expenditure from the local authorities in respect of the provision of higher education within their boundaries , on the grounds that the local authority would behave more responsibly if it paid a proportion of the cost rather than reclaiming all of it from the pool .
29 Rather than waste all of the oak in the old days here have , have faced it
30 However , it may be in your best interests to make full use of all the options rather than miss some of them out .
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