Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are one of those going on the Course you will have already received a letter stating the balance of fees , travel , insurance etc. due by the 15th April with a reminder that a contribution will be required in DM 's from those travelling in the coach from Frankfurt to Coburg . |
| 2 | Communities which suffer most from crime are often the most disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 3 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 4 | New residents are at their most receptive during the first six months . |
| 5 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 6 | He had been keenly interested in the first : about the second he was much intrigued . |
| 7 | Not that all boards are n't fun — the funboard describes a group of boards which may be a little unstable during the first steps afloat , but can be used in higher winds allowing the sailor to develop techniques such as the use of footstraps to cope with the speed of sailing in strong winds . |
| 8 | This has been obscured because the connection between accumulation in the national context and the growth of the transnational capitalist class has been rather different in the First and the Third ( and also now the Second ) Worlds for a variety of reasons , of which corruption is one . |
| 9 | A refusal by an undertaking in a dominant position to supply another undertaking which may be economically dependent on the first undertaking . |
| 10 | With the careful selection of the roles , he is also one of the few major screen actors able to alter his identity from part to part — and one Jack Nicholson performance is usually vastly different to the next — yet retaining the kind of personal stamp that attracts the criticism : ‘ Oh , it 's just Jack Nicholson playing himself again . ’ |
| 11 | There , a tired reminder of arrangements made sufficiently confusing by the first notice . |
| 12 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 13 | She felt poorly for about one month but then seemed to recover and felt somewhat stable for the next 6 weeks . |
| 14 | A full cognitive understanding of the constancy of gender across time , space and circumstances is not reached until 8 or 9 years ( Kohlberg 1966 ) , but gender reassignment is usually only possible in the first two or three years ( Money and Ehrhardt 1972 ) . |
| 15 | In P4/T2.2 , we have and ( simultaneously , as it happens ) and so pivoting in the second and third columns of P4/T2 gives efficient tableaux . |
| 16 | Liechtenstein 's economic performance during 1990 was less strong in the second half of the year but by the end of the year the number of jobs had nevertheless grown to 19,905 , an increase of 3.2 per cent as compared with 1989 . |
| 17 | The ventral arm plates are axe shaped ; thin proximally but flaring out with a wide convex distal edge and only contiguous on the first few arm segments . |
| 18 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 19 | It is not difficult to see why Julian has become so popular in the twentieth century and has inspired writers as different as T. S. Eliot and Iris Murdoch . |
| 20 | So what has made advertising so popular in the last number of years ? |
| 21 | and in who 's arms you 're gon na be so darling save the last dance for me . |
| 22 | Things are , however , somewhat different on the second repetition . |
| 23 | ‘ It is n't very gallant of me to say so , ’ he added , softly kissing her fingertips , ‘ but the fact is , Marissa had decided that she wanted to be the second Mrs Wyndham — while I , my darling , was only interested in the first . ’ |
| 24 | Unfortunately , they did not all take their studies very seriously and some of the bruising battle scenes , including a duel that went disastrously wrong on the first night , attracted misplaced laughter . |
| 25 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
| 26 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
| 27 | These wild-looking areas , often planted with fine conifers , were especially popular in the nineteenth century ; but wilderness gardens , informally laid out , also date from the eighteenth century , and even earlier — Henry VIII 's palace at Nonsuch in Surrey had one . |
| 28 | Data General Corp is finding the transition to open systems at a time of recession extremely painful with a second quarter loss of $55m after a $48m charge for another 1,000 lay-offs : turnover was down 14% at $274m , in part because the sale of the Japanese subsidiary cut volume by $19m ; the company blamed the disappointing results on competitive pricing pressures , which have cut profits , as well as the weak worldwide economy ; the company says it continues to be very cautious about the remainder of 1992 ; AViiON sales continue to grow , but ‘ we are not satisfied with overall revenues , ’ the company declared Electronic Data Systems Corp says its graphical design system now supports Hewlett-Packard 's series 700 workstations : first deliveries are scheduled for May . |
| 29 | Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant , a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year 's Eve , but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days ' respite , for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them , even though she is herself part of the system . |
| 30 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |