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

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1 ‘ I was thinking about that today over lunch .
2 Oh they want another then they want another two pound off us for that now for postage
3 You finished about eight o'clock at night , you had about twelve hours so you 're working more or less except for the was n't very long . .
4 ‘ I heard about this today from auld Timmins , him that 's the under-manager to Brackenridge in Soft Bric-a-brac and Genteel Furnishings .
5 It also seated about 300 together with room for a choir of 215 .
6 Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ?
7 They agreed to observe the moratorium , and to resume dumping after 2007 only in consultation with other signatory states .
8 When eventually , after ten o'clock at night , the run started , it was very slow .
9 Finally , at just after ten o'clock by Rock Hardy , Stanley came back from the pub and Emily totted up the points .
10 We did not speak in the corridors there , indeed after nine o'clock at night we did not speak at all .
11 Especially after nine o'clock at night .
12 The essence of Buchanan 's position was the belief that US conservatism was isolationist by nature , and that this stance had been abandoned after 1945 only in order to combat the menace of international communism .
13 Jean-Claude made the appointment for six o'clock at M. Chaillot 's appartement in Passy .
14 But for much else in polytheism and monotheism it is of more limited value .
15 It made a number of recommendations for a more disciplined and concerted pre-trial regime , suggesting that a defendant should be given credit for a guilty plea , particularly where there is saving of public expenditure and time , and that there should be a more vigorous policy on credit for pleas of guilty either by way of reduction of length of custodial sentence or the passing of some alternative to custody .
16 It is towards eleven o'clock at night .
17 By stimulating gall bladder contraction in our study through infusion of CCK-33 instead of meal ingestion wer precluded the influences of alterations in gastric emptying and endogenous secretion of CCK on gall bladder motility induced by hyperglycaemia .
18 A house-sit on the island for the MacLachlans at Camus Lusta in the Waternish area , where The Book was first found , gave me the luxury of motorised instead of pedestrian pursuance of Mr Reid Esq , save one memorable walk and a few hill scrambles .
19 The Broncos are happy to take on John Monie 's Best of British away from home — they want the showdown at Wigan 's Central Park the weekend after the World Cup final between Australia and Great Britain on October 24 .
20 The declaration stated : " We are changing all of this now in order that tomorrow it will not be too late for socialism in Yugoslavia . "
21 The Maida Vale centre in London , for example , contains six music studios and has two of these regularly in use for pop and rock sessions .
22 The main kiosk has had none of these since before Christmas .
23 Put another way , certain elements are common to the corporatist perspective on politics in the West , and so , although there are different schools of theory , it is possible to fuse some of these together in order to recognise that we are looking at a perspective that bears on interests and the state within the contemporary period of economic development .
24 Metternich in many ways thought of little else except liberalism and nationalism .
25 Well I suppose probably people li like nursemaids and er and er what they used to call in those days mothers ' helps , who used to sort of be a general skivvy around the house and would look after the children , and , and , and they were the same , they had to be in I think at , at sort of ten o'clock at night .
26 They strengthen the case , that was forcefully made by the Black report , Inequalities in Health ( Penguin 1980 ) , for some redirection of effort towards those most at risk .
27 Introduce housing cost relief weighted towards those most in need and available to house buyers and renters. this will replace mortgage tax relief for future home buyers , which often helps most those who need it least , and causes enormous distortions in the savings and housing markets .
28 Other survey evidence suggests , moreover , that a majority of the population has little sympathy towards those most in need of help from the welfare state .
29 I like to keep one of those just in case they er .
30 But unless there is constant effort to innovate , unless new knowledge is applied more effectively , and unless research is more explicitly directed toward the problems of those most in need , there is little hope that societies will be able to overcome the difficulties they now face .
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