Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protection of the local kings , the O'Connors , was not strong enough for Clonmacnoise to withstand disastrous raids by the Norman English in the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | Use of the portagram alone for guidance eliminated these complications . |
| 3 | Most of us know enough about absentee cooking these days to work out such details for ourselves . |
| 4 | Teachers themselves will need to know enough about language to use this knowledge confidently . |
| 5 | Sparc laptop house RDI Computer Corp , San Diego , California has had a change of guard : start-up specialist , Roy Wright , has been brought in as president to run day-to-day operations , while co-founder , Rick Schrameck , remains chairman and CEO responsible for the company 's direction , strategic alliances and new product development . |
| 6 | This skeg is not particularly good to windward , so for course racing large racing fins are favoured . |
| 7 | Around 14 members in senior section but apathy apparent among oldest age group who will be asked to resign perhaps after Easter to allow certain juniors to move up . |
| 8 | Around 14 members in senior section but apathy apparent among oldest age group who will be asked to resign perhaps after Easter to allow certain juniors to move up . |
| 9 | Cos when we go in after winter break that 's when we 'll find out er what topics they 're doing so we can plan our lessons and |
| 10 | And this was the the school master had a special class and he used to keep us in after school to have extra lessons . |
| 11 | We hear endlessly of Rodrigo taking various fortified cities and castles — only to lose them later and often in a matter of months . |
| 12 | Joint administrative receiver Murdoch McKillop said cuts were part of a scaling down of production to meet reduced demand . |
| 13 | And if that boisterous Channel and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us , I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt ; and then I 've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly . ’ |
| 14 | He was aware only of Eloise sitting next to him , with her legs crossed at the knee , one delicate ankle encircled by a thin gold chain . |
| 15 | ‘ But all I 'm concerned about at the moment is that we do enough against City to make sure we can go to Wembley at the weekend knowing we ca n't be overtaken again by Leeds on Saturday . ’ |
| 16 | Only with difficulty does this Pan-American champion yuppie regain his imagination and conquer his fear of flying . |
| 17 | Roaring at the ears , shoes melting , feet boiling , wrists wrenchy , teeth and jaw moved big and heavy by 85 steaming black slaves , each with a large wooden handle-bit between his teeth and 3 ropes to manipulate , one for each hand and one clasped in both feet , his waist tied down with leather to prevent any unnecessary movement of bum on bench . |
| 18 | Suppose , for example , that we wish to write a program in which the computer has to sum N values held in successive store locations , perhaps with store addresses 100,101,102 , and so on . |
| 19 | Coal imports will double in Japan over the next twenty years or so with coal becoming second only to oil as an energy supplier , at about one-quarter of demand . |
| 20 | ‘ These are available in 14 different tartans , some after real plaids , along with colour co-ordinated striped pottery which looks like yachting colours . ’ |
| 21 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 22 | Along with marketing to attract more customers , the management changes throughout the sector have required that senior academics transform themselves into planners , seeking to attract money towards their work , rather than relying on the previous expectation that it would fall like manna from the principal 's office . |
| 23 | The fragmentation of tasks which went along with Fordism reached technical , social and political limits . |
| 24 | This is an area together with art offering important cross-curricular links . |
| 25 | It is certainly popular , but is only a ‘ must ’ for those happy with a bouncy bridge of wooden planks held together with rope suspended 80 feet above the sea . |
| 26 | Ciprofloxacin or cefotaxime , together with metronidazole to cover anaerobic organisms are current alternatives . |
| 27 | Or , if they have the skills , they simply ca n't be bothered to train hard enough in order to maximise that potential . |
| 28 | Conceptually it was tempting to argue that greater flexibility would allow the sentencing court more discretion if it concluded that full suspension could not be justified , but that a brief experience of imprisonment might have some deterrent effect without first offenders remaining long enough in prison to become acclimatized . |
| 29 | If he had consulted a Green candidate , he would have been told that even the other parties ' policies are not tough enough in theory let alone practice . |
| 30 | A table of prime numbers , selected so that they are not too near to a factor of ten , and close enough in value to allow any packing density to be selected within half of a percent , is given in Appendix 4 . |