Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the insider dealer himself contributes only around a tenth of that volume , he gives a clear enough signal to arbitrageurs in the market , reckons the study . |
| 2 | The state railways pay a user charge to the track authority , which is broadly equivalent to the charges faced by road users and covers only about a third of total infrastructure costs . |
| 3 | By January , the navy had already taken over the oil fields from striking oil workers and was producing just under a third of normal output , . |
| 4 | That 'll leave it wide open for the supermarket boys to market a ‘ free-range acorn-fed pork ’ — an intensively bred pig , fattened up in woods in half the time and costing well under an eighth of the price . ’ |
| 5 | I woke very early the next morning . |
| 6 | Sandy played absolutely fantastically the first two days , but the greens were very strange and unkind to him . |
| 7 | Before embarking on what will inevitably be a huge investment , would it not be better to wait and see just how the next round of arms negotiations comes out . |
| 8 | Before embarking on what will inevitably be a huge investment , would it not be better to wait and see just how the next round of arms negotiations comes out . |
| 9 | The latter makes economic sense as water reed costs approximately only a third more for double the life expectancy . |
| 10 | Alexandra climbed carefully up the first side and then leaped from the top on to the grass below . |
| 11 | We can see also how the first sentence has a second phrase using syncopation , which is a distinct change from the first phrase . |
| 12 | It was more a punishment than a kiss and she hated it , but she hated even more the first faint stirring in her blood . |
| 13 | The danger of allowing opting out would be that the NHS would finish up as a rump and would provide very much a second class service . |
| 14 | I remember so well the last time our secretions commingled . |
| 15 | By 1913–14 , over £25,000 was being given away in this manner and in return the Central Office agents were able to ensure the appointment of suitable constituency agents and the choice of good candidate The outlay constituted only about a tenth of the whole of the local parties " expenditure , but a much higher proportion of the expenditure of the backward parties most in need of reform . |
| 16 | On the same day that Bathsheba arrived home , Mr Boldwood went to apologize to her for speaking so violently the last time he had seen her . |
| 17 | You heard well enough the first time . ’ |
| 18 | London was the place to prove himself as a choreographer , and he spent almost exactly the next third of his life there , fifteen years , doing that and much more besides . |
| 19 | That influence will be needed tonight as Wrexham bid to climb further up the third division table . |
| 20 | Note too how the first sentence rests on D ( part of the dominant chord ) , thus inviting continuation , while the second ends on C , confirming finality . |
| 21 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 22 | Yes we used to A whole lot would come here and I 'll go somewhere else the next day you know , we used to help one another to sheep shearing . |
| 23 | It 's a total farce that Lambie can be hit so hard a second time . |
| 24 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 25 | Little did he know then , but he had thrown away probably the last good chance that Germany had of winning the war . |
| 26 | Late last night he was believed to have taken well over a third of all the votes cast in the Sicilian capital . |
| 27 | An unlikely pairing but both did quite well the second half and 's experience and talking w we thought made the back four definitely stronger than in the last few weeks . |
| 28 | Erm , if you compare for example erm their real savings on er er budgetary items er it comes to about half a million , just over half a million er compared to the ones we 're putting forward about a third of million and if you look at the dips in the two budgets for that you 'll see that erm we disagree with their saving on community arts and that er they propose saving on in on information technology costs is unrealistic er that market is changing very rapidly there 's another large organisation in this city which has found us going down track which we are now proposing to down , has produced no income at all , no no no reduction in cost at all . |
| 29 | She paused halfway up the second flight to hear whether anyone was following , but all she heard was the sound of a door below opening and the voices of Joseph , Maurin and Barbara Coleman going into the flat . |
| 30 | Family practitioner services take just over a fifth of total NHS spending . |