Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 2 | In most shows ‘ hands-on ’ technology tends to be a token feature ; either over-subscribed or out of order . |
| 3 | In East Anglia people either in the on their pub lunches they either throw themselves on to that or on to treacle pudding . |
| 4 | The theory also claims that while some languages ( e.g. Russian and Arabic ) have stress-timed rhythm similar to that of English , others ( such as French , Telugu and Yoruba ) have a different rhythmical structure called syllable-timed rhythm ; in these languages , all syllables , whether stressed or unstressed , tend to occur at regular time-intervals and the time between stressed syllables will be shorter or longer in proportion to the number of unstressed syllables . |
| 5 | I asked , getting that first warning flicker that something was wrong or out of place . |
| 6 | The aunts had sat half-veiled in the evening , talking in Arabic and French and sometimes in English for me , but I had n't listened . |
| 7 | This study aims to discover patterns of migration of labour within and between the townships of Calverley parish and to look at the role of vestry policy upon this and also upon movement into and out of the parish . |
| 8 | She turned to him and he saw her eyes were clear and out of pain . |
| 9 | There were lambs to put on the hillsides and dragonflies swooped the surface of the lake , clear and still from east to west-sou'-west . |
| 10 | Police said the assault , which occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning at Chesnut House in St James Drive , Bootle , had been brutal and apparently without motive . |
| 11 | This littleness is at once paltry and menacing and never in repose . |
| 12 | If the right hon. Member for Aylesbury ( Sir T. Raison ) inquires of the trustees and directors of either the national or the Tate he will be told in no uncertain terms that it is extremely unsatisfactory that they can not acquire the sort of painting that they need to keep their collections fresh and up to date . |
| 13 | The final point Mr Deputy Speaker and of course the honourable gentleman knows this is absolutely right , expenditure at an all time high , mountains at an all time high and also of course the gap between consumer prices and world prices the highest ever recorded . |
| 14 | The number of patients intolerant of the diet is disappointingly high and together with inability to sustain a prolonged remission , elemental diet treatment does have its disadvantages . |
| 15 | ‘ A disgusting object , ’ she remarked , gesticulating with an open hand towards the frieze , which stood severed and out of context on a display bench in front of me . |
| 16 | These shared or duplicated responsibilities are unavoidable and often in fact are desirable because the process is one of mutual monitoring which usually improves reliability . |
| 17 | He was fifteen years old and out of school , with the hope to become a motor mechanic , a bicycle thief . |
| 18 | Suddenly she felt old and out of date . |
| 19 | In the eyes of this boy he and his wife were probably ridiculous , she lying on a sun-chair , he old and out of touch with the world . |
| 20 | ‘ In 1980 I was 15 years old and still at school , still a year away from O-levels , and drumming in my first band called Smallprint , playing at SWP benefit gigs ! |
| 21 | Seems to me that there was some and then of course the Wave of Life |
| 22 | Every now and then she feels the urge to do something exciting and out of character ; people are never quite sure what to expect from her . |
| 23 | The narrow nationalism expressed by people who want to cling to total sovereignty for the United Kingdom is rather like the arguments we hear from Scottish and Welsh nationalists — unrealistic and out of date . |
| 24 | He was puffing and out of breath . |
| 25 | As usual on such occasions , Molyneaux looked a little embarrassed and out of place , as if he did not particularly relish the ‘ glad-handing ’ of strangers . |
| 26 | It is used for entry into a holding pattern from sector 2 and also in approach patterns . |
| 27 | If you need a full featured word processor — and while you might like the idea of drawing and charting do you really need them within your word processor — and have the hardware to support it , I think it is a strong competitor to Word for Windows 2 and currently in advance of any others . |
| 28 | And there certainly was cream and more for tea . |
| 29 | It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether . |
| 30 | Now it looked foolish and out of place . |