Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1860s the energy of the radicals was absorbed for the most part in rebellion against the values and conventions of the educated world from which they sprang . |
| 2 | These are not violin sonatas as we know them , rather sonatas for piano with violin accompaniment . |
| 3 | The NME of this period is a mutant hybrid where reviews of Engelbert Humperdinck , Andy Williams , The Doors and Led Zeppelin sit uneasily side by side on the page . |
| 4 | Aged residents were suddenly objects of pilgrimage from such far-off places as America , and soon there were few people over sixty who did not have some hastily dusted-down anecdote , remembered , borrowed or adjusted , ready for eager visitors . |
| 5 | At the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned in February 1981 Iran pressed for a purist conception of non-alignment , which involved a rejection o£ all forms of dependency on the superpowers , an emphasis on self-reliance , and a purge of those who did not live up to this ideal . |
| 6 | By contrast , it spent only £14,500 on publicity among older and disabled people in this country , about 0.2p per vote . |
| 7 | Our musician , Mr. Robert Turner , is currently the musical director of a successful Male Voice choir and has had countless years of experience in the world of music — but only hours of experience with computers . |
| 8 | the right of access : eg entitlement to membership of committees and contact with other ‘ powerful ’ individuals in the organisation ; and |
| 9 | In other words , how do you distinguish between those changes in neural activity that reflect the coding of information in the brain and those that are merely signs of activity with no functional significance ? |
| 10 | This team draws together researchers with experience in economic and social demography with epidemiology and statistics . |
| 11 | This has led to intensive attempts to standardise costed " packages of care " which bring together considerations of outcome with workforce and workload planning . |
| 12 | And when you consider that it measures only 17mm in depth at the first fret , it 's the closest yet to an invisible neck , from a purely tactile point of view . |
| 13 | This announcement comes only months after retirement from Midland Embalming Services and I have already heard stories of breakfast in bed and other luxuries associated with retirement ! |
| 14 | Decisions on these matters ( whether taken by the parties , their legal advisors , or the Court ) involve critical value judgements , bearing in mind not only considerations of justice between the adults involved , but also the needs of the children . |
| 15 | 4 ) With both routine and ad hoc statistical analyses it is not only speed of presentation of information which counts but also — and more importantly — quality . |
| 16 | Alright so fear of loss of control . |
| 17 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 18 | He and Jordan had known each other for some years , had worked together side by side on a case of armed robbery , and been friends . |
| 19 | To this end , it is calling a World Summit for Children to be held at the UN in New York next September , bringing together heads of state for the first time to discuss an important social issue . |
| 20 | Looking at the Pointers , apparently side by side in the sky , it is not easy to appreciate that they are quite unconnected with each other . |
| 21 | A telephone poll conducted by TV Asahi on January 17th found only 25% in favour of the war and 53% against . |
| 22 | The seventy two million erm for this Committee is the labour that would involve roughly er nett savings of about one million er pounds because we and no doubt all the routes of course have to look at the social budget and where their priorities are and in order for us to er do other things perhaps indication in relation to and also will provide primary school er budgets . |
| 23 | The man said that he had been alone in a cell 4 metres by 5 metres , with only loudspeakers for company for a week . |
| 24 | He discovered from Board of Trade figures for 1907 that agricultural earnings varied from an average of below 16s. per week in East Anglia and Oxfordshire to above 20s. per week in the northern industrial counties , in Middlesex and industrial South Wales , although he found ‘ thousands ’ of families living on earnings below 14s. 11d. per week , sometimes as little as 10s . |
| 25 | general matters — eg effect of concentration on consumers and the development of technical progress . |
| 26 | Conversely , exposure of samples to the high vacuum within the XPS spectrometer may lead to surface alteration , especially loss of water from hydrated samples . |
| 27 | The larnaxes or burial chests were apparently imitations in clay of wooden chests . |
| 28 | he sat up last night , he sat up last night we was gon na watch the ten o'clock movie on telly with me . |
| 29 | A man fell from a clifftop at Brighton early yesterday and landed only feet in front of a jogger on a path . |
| 30 | For example , in the Sahara the dunes are orientated slightly east of south in the north and then veer consistently in direction until they are orientated somewhat south of west in the southern Sahara , beyond which similar orientation is betrayed by the old fixed dunes ( Fig . |