Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , very , very difficult er on each occasion after about an hour er we were approached by people , knocking on the windows of our cars , asking us what we were doing . |
| 2 | By the time we reboarded the pavilion , after barely an hour 's play , in deference to the rising tide , we had probably soaked up more liquid than the pitch . |
| 3 | The Rolls Royce Silverlady — the emblem of arguably the world 's most famous and finest car . |
| 4 | For most of the time this involved consecutive interpreting , i.e. making notes of what the speaker said and then at the end ( of perhaps an hour 's talk ) repeating the speech in the target language . |
| 5 | Why wo n't she take up the offer of just a fortnight 's short-stay ? |
| 6 | During the coming year the Press will be installing a text handling system for the use of both the Publisher 's editorial and the Printer 's composition staff . |
| 7 | So the cost of a bottle of whisky that you buy on the plane home from holiday , is made up of both the manufacturer 's price and the airline 's profit . |
| 8 | Similarly , if prices accurately reflect long-term prospects , a fund manager required to improve short-term performance can do so only by identifying and buying under-valued shares , and identifying and selling over-valued ones , which in turn depends on a balanced evaluation of both the company 's short- and long-term position . |
| 9 | At the end of both the Reeve 's Prologue and of his Tale , a measure-for-measure attitude to the governing of human affairs , and , most significantly , human relationships , is enunciated : and : with no sense anywhere of grace , mercy or forgiveness , the essentials for human salvation in the Christian view . |
| 10 | At best , it might produce a few working-class women psychologists who act as double tokens of both the discipline 's liberalism and its anti-sexism . |
| 11 | In 1948 a certain M. ( Micky ) K. Watson was elected on to the committee , beginning a special relationship with the Club that was to last some 30 years and prove instrumental in its recovery , simultaneously adding significantly to the quality of both the Club 's social and golfing amenities . |
| 12 | An appropriate compromise is for payments from the designated deposit account to require the signature of both the vendor 's and the purchaser 's lawyers . |
| 13 | Choose ripe shoots from this year 's growth of roughly a pencil 's thickness . |
| 14 | One particular characteristic which had blighted the administration of Siberia throughout the period of Russian domination was the legendary rapaciousness , venality , corruption and brutality of many of even the region 's most senior officials . |
| 15 | Grace Reginiano of Isrotel and Tennis World 's Fiona Taylor accompanied the group on its trip — the culmination of over a year 's doubles ' competition from over 500 tennis World readers . |
| 16 | Then the irresistible left-armer grabbed — for once the tabloids ' second-favourite verb is surely the best — three wickets in four balls to end England 's innings for 175 , the last eight wickets having tumbled for 67 , Inzamam 's low-left slip catch to dismiss DeFreitas being outstanding . |
| 17 | He refused to send his horses to be shod at our smithy after that ; for once the smith 's verdict got around it would be difficult for him to sell the mare . |
| 18 | MR BRYAN GOULD proposed a decisive break with the programme on which Labour lost last week 's general election when he launched his campaign for both the party 's leadership and deputy leadership at Westminster last night . |
| 19 | For both the TCR- α and TCR -β mutations , intercrosses between heterozygous mice gave rise to homozygous mutant mice at the expected frequency of 25% . |
| 20 | In the case of Elvis , this problem is particularly striking because within the rock discourse he has been widely seen as both the music 's first hero and its most prominent backslider . |
| 21 | ‘ A trusted formula for me is a 57 or a Beyer 201 , with perhaps a Neumann U87 in the room — but definitely not too close to the cab . |
| 22 | With only a widow 's pension , where could she go ? |
| 23 | But there was more to it than that as Swansea soared from Fourth Division to First with only a season 's rest . |
| 24 | With only the fire 's glow and the light from the lamp on the table remaining , he stretched out on the sofa , the tumbler between his hands bobbing gently on his domed belly . |
| 25 | Quiss had been lonely with only the castle 's shy and dwarfish attendants for company , and Ajayi was pleased to find somebody who already knew their way round the cold , forbidding stump of rock , iron , glass , slate and paper which was the castle . |
| 26 | They worked from eight in the morning , till nearly eight at night , with just an hour 's dinner , and half an hour 's tea . |
| 27 | The firm is dealing with both the Lewis 's and Maxwell funds . |
| 28 | Had he missed the cut , Woosnam would not even have had that to watch on Saturday , since the network went off the air with about an hour 's play left in a move that would have angered Great Britain . |
| 29 | Q. I am a beginner with around a year 's experience and I set up a 48″ × 21″ × 18″ ( water height ) marine tank last December . |
| 30 | But they do loads of that way way down in preparing all these things , and loads and loads of different views expressed at different times , I deal with actually the recommendations er as we get to the point of decision , but on the on the investment point |