Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As it 's turned out , it 's not efficient because the the ray dome spent a tremendous amount of time moving from one country to the other , there 's no doubt about that and before production we would want to see that particular nonsense removed and the whole thing made a lot more efficient , but for one or two development batch ray domes then you know , they 'll just have to learn from that lesson .
2 In exchange for that and about £35 worth of New Zealand dollars , I got my validation from Canterbury AC 's CFI , Murray Fowler .
3 Obviously at the moment we we all of us are really tied up with living from a Tuesday to a Saturday really you know with Tuesdays our meeting and then all that has to be done after that and then Saturday is the food parcels you know so and most people work as well either part time or full time work at home er with the kids and bringing up families so and obviously also money is shor short for people that are directly involved in the strike so erm .
4 If a list of set books had been included in the Statutory Orders , it is easy to imagine how after ten or so years teachers would be desperately trying to change it , with old-fashioned Members of Parliament resisting in lively debates .
5 The Basquiat estate is after twenty or so paintings , which Baghoomian says he sold for cash immediately after Basquiat 's death .
6 When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds .
7 It will be interesting to see how Blackburn fans view the deal a ) now and b ) after 20 or so games .
8 All continued to live in Lincoln after 1186 except perhaps Isaac , whose house in London was in the king 's hands by 1213 .
9 Saltburn struggled last season but they restricted hosts Middlesbrough to a total of 163 for six and then Mark Walker , whose 90 included 13 fours , and Indian professional Mukund Palmar ( 65 ) , shared an unbroken partnership of 137 to snatch a nine-wicket away win .
10 In fact , for personal or even health reasons rather than financial ones — you must take it .
11 Art construction in all its forms is simply the choosing of separate or possibly groups of atoms and molecules from diverse existing structures and re-grouping them with mental science .
12 UA 1 is a collaboration of 100 or so physicists from Europe and the US , led by Alan Astbury from the UK 's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and Carlo Rubbia from CERN .
13 Underlying such accounts was an image of fraternal and cousinly solidarities and loyalties : if an outsider harmed your brother , you had to come to his support , even if you yourself were in dispute with him .
14 In my first book , Death and the Visiting Firemen , back in 1959 , I made my detective a schoolmaster ( as my father had been ) and was able to use a teacher 's summing-up of a class of twenty or thirty potential delinquents as a parallel for an investigator 's examining of six or so suspects .
15 Much of the material has been lent by the Terra Foundation for the Arts and consists of ninety or so paintings by William Merrit Chase , William Leroy Metcalf , Frederick C. Frieseke , John Singer Sargent , Theodore Robinson , Childe Hassam , Mary Cassatt , Whistler and Winslow Homer .
16 I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities .
17 With the experience of a long and close association with world class designers , notably German Frers , we have developed a superb range of graceful and seakindly ocean cruising yachts with an emphasis on style and effortless performance .
18 Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter .
19 The dining-room , drawing-room , parlour and kitchen were all of good but reasonable size. ,
20 Aileron forces are fine at low speeds , but as the IAS increases they get heavier , despite their balance tabs , until at 250 knots , using one 's biceps most efficiently , one can just achieve an acceptable roll-rate of sixty or so degrees per second to the left , while backhanded right rolls are truly slow rolls .
21 Yet he appeared surprised to find in Kursk guberniia near the end of 1922 that even villages near to the Moscow railway line had received their last single copies some months earlier .
22 In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) .
23 In the village of Dara , Rafiq is a legal businessman , one of 50 or so hashish traders operating side by side with the gun dealers .
24 They are just two of 50 or so formulae , charts and graphs available to teachers who wish to assess the difficulty of prose objectively ( see Harrison , 1980 , for a review ) .
25 However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development plc .
26 However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development Plc .
27 In the second century AD the emperor Hadrian developed a new relationship between Rome and the Greek heartlands , which allowed the culture of Classical and later Greece to flourish until late antiquity .
28 A heated propagator will maintain a higher temperature than the ambient air , but do not expect it to achieve a lift of more than about 10°C ( ie , if you wish to maintain 21°C/70°F , the greenhouse should be heated to 10°C/50°F ) .
29 The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period .
30 Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted .
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