Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 2 | Because it 's a beta version , I do n't propose to harp on about any niggles , but will say this — if more DOS applications adopt its user interface and usability as well as its wealth of functions , the death of DOS may be further off than many of us have predicted . |
| 3 | Not all surveyors have the same ambition and aptitude , and unless training is the reason for putting appropriate surveyors on to certain jobs , it is advisable to select those individuals who have experience relevant to , and interest in , the particular project in hand . |
| 4 | The man in the light-brown coat spooned the henna powder on to fancy scales with tiny brass weights , then folded it into a sheet of brown paper tied up with string . |
| 5 | Progressive rock believed in FUSION , the grafting on of new musics . |
| 6 | There are only three ways of controlling phylloxera : by grafting on to phylloxera-resistant rootstocks , the accepted method ; by planting into ‘ phylloxera-proof ’ soil of at least 85% sand content ; or by submersion ( flooding the vines ) for a period of sixty days in slightly permeable soils and ninety days in very permeable soils , sufficient to kill phylloxera but hardly practical for a working vineyard , especially when there is every likelihood that the parasite will return . |
| 7 | Call Ellie Botti on for further details . |
| 8 | Could you really address Princess Diana as ‘ Your Royal Highness ’ after hearing her babble on for 20 minutes to a man who calls her Squidgy ? |
| 9 | A MAGISTRATE set bailiffs on to two companies for being £26,000 behind with business rates — without realising the firms were HIS . |
| 10 | Call Fidelity on for more details . |
| 11 | And have there been any specific breakthroughs in organic chemistry you can put your fingers on in recent years ? |
| 12 | There was even less money available for education after September , when many new famine duties and financial burdens were shifted from Moscow on to local authorities . |
| 13 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |
| 14 | The next stage was to transfer this jumbled narrative on to A4-sized cards . |
| 15 | Monika Spruth is also showing new works by Rosemarie Trockel along with three paintings by Andreas Schulze . |
| 16 | Heavens ! she thought , and was suddenly so impatient with herself that , seeing it was only for one night , for goodness ' sake , she grabbed hold of a favourite dress and folded that into her case along with some trousers and a spare lightweight sweater . |
| 17 | In pure strength , apart from their flexibility , the lashings , sewings and bindings used by primitive peoples , and by seamen down to recent times , are more efficient than metal fastenings , indeed sledges are still made in this way . |
| 18 | With visibility down to 25 yards in places , three motorists were killed in the M1 in Derbyshire . |
| 19 | With visibility down to 15 yards , rescue teams struggled to reach the man , but a doctor pronounced him dead . |
| 20 | Featuring an exceptional collection of photographs , informative illustrations and maps , this book combines first hand accounts along with historical facts and figures relating to air combat over the past 78 years . |
| 21 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |
| 22 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 23 | Another key aspect of the new courses has been the building in of planned linkages to degree provision . |
| 24 | A government deal to bring hours down to 83 hours a week was agreed last June … but nothing 's happened yet . |
| 25 | Brig Cumming said a key element of the plan was to ‘ picket the people ’ in other words to set up communications lines so that all levels of the factions from top commanders down to local warlords and the actual troops manning barricades were aware of the nature of the convoys and when they were planned to pass through a specific area . |
| 26 | It was a foursome in Pepe 's on Saturday , and Shelley let her hair down in more ways than one , dancing vigorously with the hunky Carlos , while Rosie and her good-looking little Francisco sat in the shadows , their heads close together . |
| 27 | Eventually the SIB narrowed their investigations down to two electricians with pocket knives , Larry and one other . |
| 28 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 29 | Half a dozen lapwings are feeding on a potato field along with some sparrows and a party of twite , and I spot the white wing-flashes of a cock chaffinch among the black earth . |
| 30 | I am pleased to inform you however that the Council the British Association of Sport and Medicine Scotland have persuaded the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland to include voluntary sports medicine care in the lowest subscription category along with advisory services and ‘ Good Samaritan ’ work . |