Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Danny will be going on about the fair all night now , ’ said David as the bus disappeared through the factory gates , then as they turned away he asked , ‘ Are you on duty tomorrow ? ’ |
| 2 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 3 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 4 | I have n't noticed Reg writing much for the past few minutes , though . |
| 5 | We could do the same , but every piece of music must have its own shape , and many composers introduce new material at this point , even if only for a brief few bars . |
| 6 | I read it , literally hungrily , for four days , stopping only for the daily half pint of soup and four slices of bread , and sleep . |
| 7 | But in sub-Saharan Africa , for example , television is only for the privileged few , whereas radio surpasses all other media in terms of audience . |
| 8 | On behalf of the 400 men from Sherwood who work at Gedling , I thank my hon. Friend for his endless time and effort , not only during the past few weeks but over years , to keep that colliery open . |
| 9 | Because something has come to my mind only during the past few days , when I learnt that the Gipsy Working Party by five votes to four had recommended that the Rockhill site go forward for consultation . |
| 10 | However , some women feel more keen , especially during the middle few months . |
| 11 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 12 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
| 13 | I always liked them especially after the celebrated own goal incident back in 1992 . |
| 14 | Then another two or three days went by , and my brother 's wife telephoned from Bakovka ( where there was a dacha containing a collection of pictures by some young artists , along with a great many works and drawings by Anatoly Zverev ) : ‘ Fire ! ! ! |
| 15 | She had acquired , with the ready assistance of Alison and Franca , some charming cotton dresses , and also , for the cooler weather , some rather smart dresses of light wool in mistily dark shades of blue and brown , together with a great many silk scarves from Liberty 's . |
| 16 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |
| 17 | For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely . |
| 18 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |
| 19 | So in the past few weeks Mr Yavlinsky , Vladimir Shcherbakov , the Soviet minister in charge of economics , and Yevgeny Primakov , an aide to Mr Gorbachev , have all visited America trying to work out the terms of an aid-for-economic-reform package . |
| 20 | So in the past few hundred years Europe has been , as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has suggested , constituted and consolidated as ‘ sovereign subject , indeed sovereign and subject ’ . |
| 21 | So in the past few years , I have given a speech which has has drawn attention to the the deficit on our General Fund and our need for continued care , to reduce the deficit . |
| 22 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
| 23 | About a mile away , at Sheridan Circle , our director , the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Leteleir and Ronni Moffitt , an institute worker , were killed in October 1976 by a car bomb planted by right-wing Cubans in the pay of the Pinochet secret police : only in the past few months has the Chilean government paid compensation to their families . |
| 24 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 25 | ‘ She has worked harder than all the others put together in the past few years . |
| 26 | The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years . |
| 27 | The number of applications based on this ground has increased alarmingly over the past few years . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've spent over £400 in petrol alone over the past few months , taking him to meetings and training ’ , Mr Brice confirmed . |
| 29 | THE Prince of Wales is due to fly in to the war-torn former Yugoslavia today for a morale-boosting visit to British troops . |
| 30 | THE PRINCE of Wales will fly in to the war-torn former Yugoslavia today for a morale-boosting visit to British troops . |