Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish National Party deputy leader , Allan Macartney , said that Highlands and Islands needs had been accentuated by recent job losses , and forecast : ‘ The UK will never press our case for regional funding as effectively as we could . |
| 2 | This year they estimate the whole legal aid bill will be around £100 million and I say : ‘ Well done ’ on spending that money so efficiently and economically in order to let people have justice . ’ |
| 3 | Erm do you believe if , if we erm oh I think we 've already covered that bit right so if I put erm come up with a erm a recommendation that would provide erm an income for your wife in the event of your death erm is there any reason why we ca n't look at this ? |
| 4 | Immediately an expected date of discharge from hospital is known , inform the Department of Health and Social Security so that any pensions , benefits and allowances to which your parent is entitled may be restored to the normal level as soon as possible . |
| 5 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 6 | Even without this problem , it should be our objective to advance negotiations , contract drafting and due diligence as far as possible with the preferred bidder before the remaining offerers realise that they have been unsuccessful . |
| 7 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 8 | I ask my hon. Friend , please , to give us that opportunity as soon as possible . |
| 9 | As far emerging technologies go , Rothstein says although the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment may well become part of a common distributed infrastructure , he claims it is still on a very low level as far as developers are concerned . |
| 10 | Particularly er children or animals who have no say in it at all , we , we take the view that er it 's a family show and we take that responsibility very carefully and very seriously . |
| 11 | Just try saying that sentence out loud and see how pompous and unnatural it sounds . |
| 12 | Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned . |
| 13 | Today 's 940 Turbo fits that description as comfortably as the old 740 Turbo did . |
| 14 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 15 | The Kimmeridgian stage of the Upper Jurassic is here developed to an exceptional thickness in a narrow strip along more than 10 miles of coast . |
| 16 | It meets the Gramm-Rudman target , brings that deficit down further and balances the budget by 1993 — with no new taxes . |
| 17 | We have already suggested that along with the use of child labour there was little uniformity either chronologically or geographically about the employment of women in coal mines . |
| 18 | when you life them up , well of course the they 've seen so many mice , she grabbed two in that mouth straight away and two and as they were going up she grabbed |
| 19 | This unfortunate crusade was not a total loss as far as Barbarossa was concerned , for it set the political and feudal scene for his election as Emperor within a short time of his return to Germany . |
| 20 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 21 | As Professor S.F. Bush said in The Times ( 7 October 1991 ) , it was the commercial banks not the Bank of England which generated the credit explosion in 1987–89 : ‘ A central bank , whether independent or not , is an almost total irrelevance as far as inflation is concerned in a world dominated by thousands of different monetary agencies switching assets and liabilities across the world at the touch of a button . ’ |
| 22 | It has been reported for example that the UK has been identified as the main European culprit as far as sulphur emissions and the killing of Norway and Sweden 's lakes is concerned , yet the UK 's sulphur emissions have been in decline since 1970 while acidification has not . |
| 23 | cos if you keep following that cut then sooner or later you 'll come across the , the bone okay , there , that lot |
| 24 | The descriptive aspect of the analysis does however appear to reflect administrative practice more accurately than the ideal of rational decision-making . |
| 25 | If , as a result of its inquiries under s47 , it concludes that certain action should be taken to safeguard or promote a child 's welfare it must take that action so far as it is both within its power and reasonably practicable for it to do so ( s47(8) ) . |
| 26 | ‘ We shall be definitely making every effort to improve that department as soon as possible , ’ said Porterfield , who tried to sign Grobbelaar last year . |
| 27 | The second was white , 6ft , well built , and with dark brown hair slightly longer than the first . |
| 28 | The revised Defence plan , with its greatly reduced demands on manpower and its emphasis on highly trained mobile forces , now makes it possible to contemplate putting the Services on to an all-regular basis ; and the Government will endeavour to bring about this change as soon as practicable . |
| 29 | They listened to the representations that were made and , in their wisdom , decided to make this change as quickly as possible . |
| 30 | Married to Dick , she would be able to give her grandfather a home , would be free to renew that wonderful sexual experience as often as she wished , and , of course , to have children . |