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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The descriptive aspect of the analysis does however appear to reflect administrative practice more accurately than the ideal of rational decision-making . |
| 14 | The second was white , 6ft , well built , and with dark brown hair slightly longer than the first . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By 1910 the equivalent unit in the Russian foreign ministry was scrutinising more than 150 Russian and foreign newspapers , while even the Ottoman empire had equipped its foreign ministry as early as 1869 with a rudimentary press office whose duties included monitoring the foreign-language papers published on Turkish soil . |
| 17 | Please send me a sponsorship package and free t-shirt as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Please send me a sponsorship package and free t-shirt as soon as possible . |
| 19 | And , this is the exciting bit as far as you 're concerned . |
| 20 | The wide acceptance of secularisation is not a strong enough reason for us to cease applying Biblical social teaching as directly as possible to the world in which we live . |
| 21 | Hotspur 's lance , steadily lowered as he came , selected its target , the foremost knight on the tallest horse , and struck the uplifted shield so strongly that the shock flattened its bearer back upon his horse 's crupper ; but he kept his seat gamely , rolling under the lance as it flashed by , to recover dizzily and swing a vehement though ineffective stroke with his sword , before the lurch and sway of the press carried him away . |
| 22 | He did n't have a striped jersey or a bag marked Swag as far as the Old Bill are concerned . ’ |
| 23 | On the passage home we retraced our outward course as far as Kyle of Localsh , and from there threaded our way into the Sound of Raasay via Caol Mor to spend the night at Portree . |
| 24 | These defensive and protective proposals could be reinforced by a single measure , brilliant in its simplicity , which would guard against old-age discrimination more effectively than any other . |
| 25 | So if there 's any er er erm thought that the er ombudsman complaints were running at a high level as far as this committee 's interest were concerned , I can confirm that that is n't in fact the case . |
| 26 | • the paths of daily life and work : of these , the newly laid-out path extends from the old building as far as the workshops ; |
| 27 | One of those interested in the opportunities for détente was Winston Churchill who was British premier once more and became the first major European statesman to advocate a relaxation of tensions with Russia . |
| 28 | Carol , who has learned to manage her meagre budget as carefully as any accountant , exemplifies the deeper problem of Easterhouse behind the unemployment , said to be 30 per cent , but much higher when the unemployed 16- to 18-year-olds , those on invalidity benefit and people who do not register for non-existent work are taken into account . |
| 29 | Carefully planning the cheapest air fares , allocating her meagre budget as sparingly as possible on food and accommodation , she travelled the world and took on the best . |
| 30 | Does he understand and accept that it is important that local authorities should receive reliable guidance as soon as possible ? |