Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She sighed and scraped a little dry clay from under her nails , letting the words of her book flow over her eyes .
2 But that end you ought to have had a firm , if not wholly clear idea of from the earliest thought you gave to your story .
3 I was also immensely proud when Gavin Campbell , who fronted last week 's B B C D E C appeal , told me that words could not describe the tremendously high quality of Save The Children 's work in Malawi , Mozambique and Sudan , which he had recently visited in order to film for the D E C appeal .
4 Northern blot analysis shows that the cDNA insert from CL100 hybridizes with a single , highly inducible mRNA of about 2.4kilobases ( kb ) ( Fig. 1 a ) .
5 Worse quality of life — A global or subgrouping score drops below normal range for at least two successive measurements .
6 panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the
7 That they have managed to cope with it at all is perhaps some credit to at least a reasonable level of fairness within the system .
8 Erm , I heard Mr Curtis say that the shortfall of affordable houses was seven hundred , he had a target of two thousand two hundred and felt they could find fifteen hundred somewhere already , so another shortfall of of seven hundred that actually contrasts with para' four one one of the one eleven should I say , four one eleven , of the York housing strategy , which has been submitted , and appendix four of the York evidence which actually says that , yes there 's a two thousand two hundred target , but there would still be a shortfall of about one thousand one hundred dwellings if this land , they 're talking about land that they own outside of York , is developed for affordable housing .
9 Well George 's secretary at the Cosmopolitan Debating Society after er er Tom Moseley had er died , and er George takes an entirely different view of from me , of the you know .
10 So this business of of understanding how it happened from the , in inverted commas , victim 's point of view um this business of understanding the subsequent effects , this business of understanding the extent , ah are all enormously problematic and um it 's one of these things I would n't particularly like to have to design a survey of because it 's absolutely fraught with difficulty but nevertheless some some attempts have been made um as I have indicated .
11 The confident cricketers are the ones who set themselves targets of achievement , which range from Sir Richard Hadlee 's carefully calculated and perfectly achieved ‘ double ’ season in 1984 , to my hope that perhaps I will perform the somewhat lesser treble of at least one run , one wicket and one catch for the village this year .
12 Despite the extra work involved in moving records about to ensure that all possible records are held in their home addresses , compared with the less restrictive requirement of at least one home record discussed earlier , this stricter file housekeeping pays off when retrievals outnumber additions and deletions .
13 Special article on Latin America , read that later , perhaps little wandel down to pub garden at lunch carrying the paper , treat outing ½ pint and seeing the world , back to nice clean house still one 's own no interruptions .
14 Erm , as I 've said before , I have reservations about whether a much increased figure about above the County Council 's er proposal could be accommodated within Ryedale District Council , and I if the figure above that is proposed I would suggest that the extra is accommodated within the new settlement , which I presume the ar argue answer you would have expected from Ryedale , erm Barton Willmore 's figure is based on an assumption that they believe that within Ryedale there is a capacity to increase past building rates , I would refute that , erm the building rates in Southern Ryedale I would suggest were abnormally high , because of the development of Clifton Moor airfield , the North Western part of the Southern Ryedale district , sorry South Western part .
15 In other words , the list operates at a much higher level of pre coordination of concepts than one would expect a thesaurus to support .
16 For example , Luke has only one story outside of Galilee in the first section of his Gospel ( the healing of Legion ( Luke 8:26–39 ) , whereas Matthew and Mark record a more extensive ministry in Gentile country ( Matt.
17 The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan .
18 I do n't see any necessarily any difference by including conversions this time round .
19 exactly half way through to changing design , so it was nothing like
20 Erm some additional sidings , mills over here , some additional sidings were put in , in the early part of this century , and they came off the this track erm just this side of on the left hand side of the level crossing , erm and went er up to a dead end er just along in the right hand side , er over now towards where factory is .
21 got twenty one , twenty two , twenty seven , twenty eight , twenty , twenty plus something , we could make that N if you like instead of X. We could make it N , N is just some number from about nought to nine .
22 She crept into the bedroom and retrieved her already packed suitcase from under her bed .
23 The individually tailored package of at least 7 modules is ideal for those seeking professional re-orientation or updating in fields such as publishing , computer studies and cartography .
24 Trim away excess marzipan from around the edge of the cake with a knife and carefully turn the cake , with the marzipan topping , the right way up .
25 Trim away excess icing from around the base with a knife .
26 Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 .
27 I made my way home each night with at least some notion of hope and plans for a new assault on Wilde .
28 It makes an illuminating contrast having Ives 's much more idiosyncratic setting of At the River as well as Copland 's .
29 Allan , 23 , fought off stiff competition from throughout the UK to win one of only four advanced training places for architectural craftsmen .
30 These two suggestions , far from being enlightened liberation of all children , are actually oppression of a deeply damaging kind to at least some , and Harris 's suggestion contains a capacity criterion in disguise .
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