Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1989 Law Society survey , it was shown that the public associate solicitors most closely with conveyancing and property matters ( 68 per cent. ) , divorces and legal separations ( 35 per cent. ) , wills and trusts ( 38 per cent. ) , and law and order and criminal convictions ( 30 per cent . ) . |
| 2 | Discourse can be anything from a grunt or single expletive , through short conversations and scribbled notes right up to Tolstoy 's novel , War and Peace , or a lengthy legal case . |
| 3 | Have you all got notes so far on George ? |
| 4 | What Karlsson does not explain here , of course , is how some apparently psychotic individuals manage to achieve effective creativity — albeit in some cases only in between periods of illness whereas others , probably the majority , fail entirely to do so . |
| 5 | But niether have most of the blokes below apart from Waddle & Strach . |
| 6 | The phoney financiers have struck at least four times so far in Coventry , stealing three-figure sums . |
| 7 | In Africa Rommel 's forces had driven the weakened British units right back across Cyrenaica into Egypt , while the Balkans were firmly in German hands following the fall of Yugoslavia and Greece , and an invasion of Crete seemed imminent . |
| 8 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 9 | One of the turning points was the schools boycott movement in the early 1980s , initiated by the black student movements , which left many thousands of black children from seven-year-olds to teenagers effectively out of school for several years . |
| 10 | Izzie breathed the words so softly into Gabriel 's ear that it was as if he had thought them himself . |
| 11 | They had used the words so freely in Seville and look what had happened . |
| 12 | ( It ) emphasises the interaction between the economy and the environment and , if sustainable principles are to be embraced , then there is a need to shift the balance of considerations much more in favour of the environment than hitherto . |
| 13 | This was from the basis of a new found security in a relationship with a male student who managed to last out more than the usual six weeks of all my other relationships so far at college . |
| 14 | Has the chocolate-box portrait of Raine , Countess Spencer , resplendent with lacquered back-combed hair and bare shoulders — the picture that rubbed shoulders so anachronistically with Van Dycks and Gainsboroughs — been removed from the staircase ? |
| 15 | " with the view to promoting the co-operation of the two schools and the possibility of avoiding the teaching subjects in the two schools having a tendency to overlap and so bringing the two schools more fully in accord with the requirements of the town . " |
| 16 | This is an important area of work , and is increasing our knowledge of how to screen disaster survivors more effectively for indications of future psychiatric morbidity . |
| 17 | It also has some integration work underway designed to tie-in its servers more closely with workstations from NeXT Computer , following the reseller agreement it announced last year . |
| 18 | Yes , he 's always jumping on me to tell me to do more for local radio and get South East Arts and South East Arts clients more regularly in contact with local radio , and I must admit on the latter case I do think that many of our clients do spend a great deal of time and erm want to be active with local radio . |
| 19 | He sat in the hotel bedroom all weekend with Sam , played games with him , ate meat pies and children 's gob-stoppers cheaply out of paper bags and gorged on the all-in breakfast . |
| 20 | In its place , service stations were to be required to install vapour traps directly on to petrol pumps . |
| 21 | Given that the rituals of circumcision and menstrual taboo , like the other blood rituals , would appear to have derived at least in their final form from the trauma of the exile to Babylon and the consequent restructuring of the Jewish community , we shall need to start our historical survey some centuries further back in time in order to locate and appreciate the profound changes which occurred in and around the sixth century BC . |
| 22 | They swaggered to a classy , confident victory full of irresistible one-touch football that took the Magpies ever closer to Reading 's 1985 record of 13 wins in a row at the start of a season . |
| 23 | When , at the high point of the opera , Norma , the stir began to get into her stride with ‘ Casta Diva ’ , and George into his stride with gratuitous evaluations of the lighting and editing , a woman behind us brought a large bag of herrings smartly down on George 's bald head , with the words : ‘ Will yer for Jesus 's sake hold yer gob while I listen to that poor woman there ! ’ |
| 24 | He was now seated on the very edge of the drop , swinging his legs childishly down at Sendei . |
| 25 | Then , a few months later quite by chance , of course the same painting came onto the market . ’ |
| 26 | Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home . |
| 27 | " I suppose he 's going to tell us that gentlemen now abed in England will be sorry that they 're not here , " remarked the Magistrate , but nobody was amused by this loathsome display of cynicism and the Magistrate was left to chortle grimly by himself , his soul pickled in vinegar . |
| 28 | Erm the subjects now then to Mr |
| 29 | With his approval ratings now up to 40% , Mr Florio leads the Republican candidate , Christine Todd Whitman ( who almost upset Senator Bill Bradley in November ) , by nine points . |
| 30 | Gloucester City Football Club have done an about turn too … they 've got Brian Godfrey the man they sacked as manager three months ago back in charge … the chairman says he made a mistake … three cheers for him … |