Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hot water cylinder is , in fact , used as the ‘ heat sink ’ for many solid fuel boiler systems allowing somewhere for excess heat to be dissipated ( sometimes a bathroom towel rail is used for the same purpose ) . |
| 2 | The increased sensitivity of cattle stealing to hardship may be largely accounted for by the fact that at this time more cattle stealing was carried out casually , mostly for immediate consumption as beef . |
| 3 | So a lot of sort of tracking to and fro between one end of the office , hoping that the two groups would n't meet . |
| 4 | L-Fields are links in a ‘ chain of authority ’ which starts with the simplest living forms , runs upward through all life on this planet to the most complex form we know — man — and then extends outward into space and upward to an ‘ infinite authority ’ , about which we can only speculate . |
| 5 | This can only be done successfully through central control of the resources . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend has already brought some provisions of the Act into force and intends to bring all its provisions into force progressively within about one year of enactment . |
| 7 | For about 10 years before the diagnosis was made , each time I drank whisky I would sneeze and develop symptoms of a rhinitis within about one minute of starting the drink . |
| 8 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 9 | The nine state governors of the Unity party of Nigeria ( UPN ) , the Great Nigeria people 's party ( GNPP ) and the people 's Redemption party ( PRP ) have nonetheless complained more vigorously about Federal policy towards the mass media than about almost anything else . |
| 10 | The directorate has a continual need for processed information to support decision making , to develop policy and advice for Academic Board and Governors , and to satisfy the appetite of external bodies such as DF.S , CNAA , NAB/PCFC , etc. for numerical information From time to time there is also the need for high quality information to support particular initiatives , such as the ( successful ) application for accreditation . |
| 11 | I should have something to say later on about future care by Mr . |
| 12 | Life has arisen on about one planet per galaxy ( in our galaxy , Earth is the lucky planet ) . |
| 13 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 14 | Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) . |
| 15 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 16 | He talked a little about artistic interpretation without much hope of her agreeing . |
| 17 | Functionalists such as Parsons and Davis and Moore say little about social stratification in the sense of clearly defined social strata whose members have shared interests . |
| 18 | They left with a strong commitment to share their experiences at home and to campaign even more vigorously for concrete action by the North American governments and churches . |
| 19 | the property was deposited by or on behalf of the guest expressly for safe custody with the proprietor or some servant of his authorised , or appearing to be authorised , for the purpose , and , if so required by the proprietor or that servant , in a container fastened or sealed by the depositor ; or |
| 20 | It voted overwhelmingly for continued membership of the USSR in the March 1991 referendum , and elected its own president . |
| 21 | Second , we might see something right about that theory of meaning or something wrong about it , and use this to determine our attitude to foundationalism in general ; thus we might avoid the need to consider all the different varieties one by one . |
| 22 | It also questioned whether Rosyth could compete effectively for this business against firms in the Far East with their lower cost base and sites on the main tanker routes . |
| 23 | Typical examples of this are the inability to have biosensors that can operate effectively for any length of time in blood and the need for anticoagulants during extracorporeal procedures such as dialysis and heart-lung bypass operations . |
| 24 | So she says they usually put schedules on for fourteen month for the next ten months , twelve months . |
| 25 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 26 | He came on for one match at least . |
| 27 | So I said well you know , I ca n't just wind it up over the next six months , I said er what I wan na do I said is erm I got ta carry it on for that transit for that Orion till I finished anyway so it 's got ta go another year so I said well what I 'm feeling about doing I said is er just sort of keeping a finger in the pie I said , he said , if I 'd said tomorrow , if I had finished the whole the tomorrow I 've got ta buy a car I can buy it finance so I 'm gon na get no tax relief on the H P I get no depreciation no nothing like that I said so at least if I still self employed I can if I have the sort of two or three vehicles or whatever three , four , five vehicles but I said at least I can have some erm and I can then sort of they would be more utilised , where as I said at the moment we got more vehicles than we really need to keep full capacity so he said yeah , yeah fair enough then . |
| 28 | Have cockpit master switch and Pitot heat switch ON for prescribed time before checking that Pitot and static sources are in fact being heated . |
| 29 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 30 | They went on for some way in silence . |