Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to us , whose country markets are rapidly vanishing , the extraordinary activity and the variety of foodstuffs on sale in a little town of only three thousands inhabitants like Duclair , so few miles away from Dover , has a particular fascination . |
| 2 | In some instances it is possible to break down these rates further by motive or other circumstances . |
| 3 | They were lonely , poor lads , like so many servicemen far from home , but their brash attentions grated and could be embarrassing : ‘ Hiya , babe ! |
| 4 | Apart from the dollars spent , one may wonder at the concealed costs of taking so many consultants away from their patients and research workers from their laboratories and clinics . |
| 5 | I was shocked to hear of her death and of so many others all over the country . ’ |
| 6 | My understanding is that the European parliament has got so many buildings now including a great new building at Brussels built at huge cost , enormous cost and a new building they want to build at Strasbourg . |
| 7 | Even the judicial system in the Dutch republic , in so many ways still among the most advanced parts of Europe , suffered from the lack of a powerful monarchy able to press effectively for the sort of reform which rulers in many less developed areas were now forcing upon their subjects . |
| 8 | Above all , I do not believe the people of Britain want to see our constitutional monarchy , the ‘ eternal jewel ’ with which our political liberties are bound up , brought into danger or contention by the deceptive device once adopted so ill-advisedly so many years ago for a purpose that is past . |
| 9 | A barrel of oil costs Poland so many dollars regardless of the zloty 's exchange rate . |
| 10 | Terry went to the cinema with Sarah , and to the caelidhe with her and Anne when his sister was free to go , but he found the dance very changed with so many men away from home . |
| 11 | Women were brought aboard the ships , too — but the crews , despite so many months away from female company , did not find much sexually attractive about them . |
| 12 | The research findings will totally update the previous Corpus of Knowledge research which has had so many applications both for the industry nad educators since it was first produced in the late 1970s . |
| 13 | Coffee will help — blessedly hot liquid to scald or drown those shaggy beasts in the brick shelter so many miles away from here in the place I once called Home . |
| 14 | it 's just that all I heard all morning was there 's so many delays there with all the water , surface water erm so I thought well let's try and avoid that . |
| 15 | Being harder and more durable , they also have withstood the elements over the many centuries that have passed since their arrival , while their softer plinths have been eroded by wind and rain and frost , leaving unaffected only those parts actually under the ‘ umbrella ’ protection of the boulders above . |
| 16 | They were er well they were different to us , they were n't going nowhere from here and er they had no best clothes only same clothes mostly for days and Sundays is n't it , same . |
| 17 | Informix plans to open an office in Tokyo next year which will take over some responsibilities currently under the charge of its Hong Kong-based Asia/Pacific regional headquarters , like local support . |
| 18 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 19 | Up in the ‘ Fish Tank ’ is an area set aside for the Inlay Operator , still many years away from his grander title of Electronic Effects Designer . |
| 20 | As the recently-formed RAF Museum was still several years away from having its own permanent display building , D'Arcy persuaded the Air Historical Branch to release PA474 to him in order that he could properly restore it and keep it under cover . |
| 21 | We live in a highly mobile society where the norm is to live in small nuclear family groups , probably many miles away from the rest of the family and maybe having very little physical contact or communication with other members of the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 22 | it 's ab I think I said to you we 've got fifty , a good fifty-fifty split , if maybe not slightly more women actually on the course . |
| 23 | Here we are reminded of studies carried out some years ago in Germany on the personality characteristics of a large group of professional painters and sculptors . |
| 24 | It was from Jimmy that she heard the worrying news that Vasey 's had recently been bought out some months ago by the giant Massingham Engineering . |
| 25 | It was for a number of reasons , apart from a wish to escape from teaching , that I set out some weeks later for Libya , then a country almost entirely unknown . |
| 26 | It is in everyone 's interest to fill out these forms accurately at the outset so that the necessary deductions and exemptions can be made . |
| 27 | Show some ability to recognise when planning , drafting , redrafting and revising are appropriate and to carry out these processes either on paper or on a computer screen . |
| 28 | It carries out these aims primarily by holding regular seminar meetings , usually six a year , and an annual conference . |
| 29 | This division was well laid out many years ago in a Ministry of Health memorandum issued with HM(65)77 , the needs of the two categories of elderly people being quite different . |
| 30 | As Peter Medawar pointed out many years ago in his classic essay Is the scientific paper a fraud ? these essential elements in how research is done get refined out from the account as it appears in the finally published papers or scientific reviews , just as they have largely , though not entirely , been filtered from the discussion of Aplysia and LTP in the last chapter . |