Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every case , blood was taken on admission for determination of carbamylated haemoglobin . |
| 2 | Century Theatre 's production plays out the twists and turns of these conundrums at lightning pace and essential split-second timing , carried on wave after wave of Stoppard 's ever-inventive language . |
| 3 | During the 1860s the energy of the radicals was absorbed for the most part in rebellion against the values and conventions of the educated world from which they sprang . |
| 4 | Constructed for the most part in terms of a technology that was , by comparison with the main technologies of the nineteenth century , primitive and unsystematic , there were few really significant improvements to them through the century and by 1900 they provided no semblance of a genuine transport service . |
| 5 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 6 | These are not violin sonatas as we know them , rather sonatas for piano with violin accompaniment . |
| 7 | They joined the club 's men 's team who travel to Bedford next week to take on March of Cambridge in their semi-final . |
| 8 | The NME of this period is a mutant hybrid where reviews of Engelbert Humperdinck , Andy Williams , The Doors and Led Zeppelin sit uneasily side by side on the page . |
| 9 | In 1988 , only 23% of women aged 75 and over were married . |
| 10 | Especially groups of people from the Church . |
| 11 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 12 | At the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned in February 1981 Iran pressed for a purist conception of non-alignment , which involved a rejection o£ all forms of dependency on the superpowers , an emphasis on self-reliance , and a purge of those who did not live up to this ideal . |
| 13 | By contrast , it spent only £14,500 on publicity among older and disabled people in this country , about 0.2p per vote . |
| 14 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 15 | In 1990 , they made only $3m on revenues of $70m . |
| 16 | In the six months to December turnover was down £3m to £38m with pre-tax profits £1.4m lower at £3.7m . |
| 17 | The Crimea had been administratively part of Ukraine since 1954 , before which it had belonged to Russia . |
| 18 | Our musician , Mr. Robert Turner , is currently the musical director of a successful Male Voice choir and has had countless years of experience in the world of music — but only hours of experience with computers . |
| 19 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 20 | ( b ) Reject those words which obscure rather than clarify meaning-words which are only present for purposes of style , linguistic sense , grammar , or form . |
| 21 | the right of access : eg entitlement to membership of committees and contact with other ‘ powerful ’ individuals in the organisation ; and |
| 22 | In other words , how do you distinguish between those changes in neural activity that reflect the coding of information in the brain and those that are merely signs of activity with no functional significance ? |
| 23 | FileNet Corp has reported first quarter net profits down 90% at $200,000 on turnover flat at $34.7m ; net earnings per share declined by 89% to $0.2 . |
| 24 | Despite this , only 50% of cancers in this group were actually detected by faecal occult blood testing , the remainder arose as symptomatic cancers in the period between screenings . |
| 25 | It is then vital throughout the engagement that the firm only acts on instructions from these persons and that evidence is kept of such instructions . |
| 26 | Wyatt et al calculated that a single anterior biopsy detected only 63% of patients with gastric metaplasia proved by multipoe biopsy . |
| 27 | Sometimes the shutters of my room , raised slightly to let in streaks of sunlight between their horizontal slats , made our winter room seem tropical . |
| 28 | A bus would repeat itself every hour and he 'd say , run that one down , or that was running it down hour after hour until about seven o'clock when certain buses were run in . |
| 29 | This team draws together researchers with experience in economic and social demography with epidemiology and statistics . |
| 30 | Nature was never especially kind to Leith in regard to the formation of the harbour , having placed a large stretch of sand across the mouth of the stream and with no sheltered bay or inlet , the approaches were often hazardous . |