Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The daily routines of most working class wives left conspicuously little time for leisure . |
| 2 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 3 | It does however provide expressly that execution of letters rogatory does not imply ultimate recognition of the jurisdiction of the authority issuing the letter rogatory or a commitment to recognise or enforce any judgment . |
| 4 | It hangs on that sort of knife-edge . |
| 5 | Broadly speaking , although it is discussed in more detail below , a business is transferred as a going concern if the purchaser carries on that business in succession to the vendor as distinct from the purchaser selectively choosing specific assets of the vendor for use in the purchaser 's own business . |
| 6 | Would he like to carry on that legacy in cinema ? |
| 7 | Present-day writers are generally in agreement that the position of the unmarried mother under the Poor Law showed remarkably little change before World War II . |
| 8 | Altogether some 10,000ft of ascent and descent are needed , often steep , rocky and energetic , so only fit , capable and committed walkers should attempt this route . |
| 9 | Presumably this lining-up of grades , with equivalents in the old O level and CSE grading system , was undertaken in order to reassure people that ‘ standards ’ were going to be as rigorous as before . |
| 10 | The very next year ( 1590 ) he provided music for the pastoral interludes of Tasso 's Aminta and two other pastorals which was in an ‘ altro modo di cantare che l'ordinario ’ , presumably some kind of recitative . |
| 11 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 12 | It may disintegrate on impact or , if it survives that , it may carry on some distance under water . |
| 13 | If paragliders can at least get away with their sport when safely airborne , since they then take on some element of grace and beauty , the mountain biker will always look a clod . |
| 14 | I am writing to you to pass on some information regarding Clown Loaches . |
| 15 | While we maintained pressure on the company , CCW published the results of a three-year study showing how badly some parts of Wales had already been damaged by acid rain . |
| 16 | Arguably this advocacy of mercurials for the treatment of syphilis laid the foundations for the success of the paracelsian movement , because the newly arrived scourge of syphilis was the most feared disease of the sixteenth century , occupying a similar position to AIDS in Africa today . |
| 17 | Remarkably this clump of limes which is 60 feet across , started as one tree which was coppiced by woodmen in Neolithic times . |
| 18 | Morrow laughed , bringing on another attack of smoker 's cough . |
| 19 | In these cases verse takes on another dimension of seriousness by its juxtaposition with the prose of jest and the evasion of responsibilities . |
| 20 | RIGHT This type of bed is easily cleaned — an important consideration to prevent the build-up of fleas in the dog 's environment . |
| 21 | Eventually this work on citation orders came to fruition in the rather unlikely context of a new indexing system , PRECIS . |
| 22 | In terms of Marxist theory , a thesis ( feudalism ) had been fundamentally questioned by its antithesis ( capitalism ) , and eventually this mode of production would replace it with its own social and political system . |
| 23 | Aesthetically , he was in love , but it was still hard to think that eventually this sculpture of flesh and bone must become his soul 's vehicle , his robot . |
| 24 | For among the rather few objections by Pound that Eliot paid no attention to were one or two which would have required him to make consistent , in terms of locality and historical period , some of his references to London life . |
| 25 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 26 | Members are clear what Mr spotted which is that in addition to the from budget review , we also need to agree some er , effectively some delegations in c , d and e , of the recommendation laid out in pages two and three of the main agenda . |
| 27 | In fact , remarkably few birds of prey survive their first winter in the wild , but once they have done so life seems to be a bit easier for them . |
| 28 | If we do n't get agreement we take on this lady from Oxford |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |