Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | After 200 yds and immediately after track bends right through break in hedge turn left ( waymarked ) proceeding alongside hedge on left . |
2 | Goats were kept commercially for milk for cheese . |
3 | Where they had been was raw earth , smothered with the rubbish and dust of bombardment , and pitted with curious mounds and recesses which Nicholas recognised only slowly as rank upon rank of recent , random , haphazard graves . |
4 | The main benefit areas in enterprises which have embarked upon computerised payroll and personnel information are : ( i ) Better personnel management/career planning/training Reduced attrition in key skill areas Matching of people requirements and availability Reduced recruiting costs Reduced training costs ( ii ) Ability to set headcount targets and control to monthly control numbers Reduced cost of people Productivity gains ( iii ) Ability to create computerised model of company payroll including job levels , skill levels , merit targets , headcounts , promotions , overtime , bonuses , shift allowance etc. etc. for use in wage budgeting/bargaining . |
5 | All right as name of café , but no more . |
6 | Winter visitors disperse quite rapidly in April and May , and little through passage in spring is shown by the counts in Fig. 2 , except in 1973 and 1974 when a marked movement occurred in the second half of February . |
7 | Ahead , the wall goes on interminably for mile after mile to the distant swelling on the horizon marking the summit . |
8 | Ferguson stressed that the American actions need not be interpreted as aggressive but rather as part of defence against a possible Soviet offensive . |
9 | Between them , though , these hoofed herbivores ( ungulates ) demonstrate how efficiently vegetation can be divided up and utilized , if nature is given time enough for evolution to work , and a good variety of genes to work upon . |
10 | This glove has since fulfilled my requirements for treasure hunting being tough enough , warm enough and dry enough for use on land sites , the beach and — obviously underwater . |
11 | It is only through consciousness in action arising out of the contradictions of the real relations , that any transformation of either class consciousness or economic relations will come about . |
12 | Since the GCBS waybill lacks the spaces for the data that usually accompanies combined or multi-modal transport , it is suitable only for port to port and through transport . |
13 | Already , though , the examiners are looking not only for knowledge of syllabus content but also for those intellectual qualities that make a successful chartered accountant . |
14 | The plays become a focus , not only for question about Renaissance drama , but about a variety of cultural debates . |
15 | Where a minority lacks a territory — for example , the Jews for much of their history , black people in the United States , the Indian Dalit Panthers ( an organization of untouchable caste members ) — then the practical struggle can be only for equality of treatment , not national independence . |
16 | It 's only for use in house at this stage . |
17 | For quick revision , the skeleton of the subject must be visible at a glance , and it is worth while making some effort to produce this effect , if only for ease of revision ; indeed , revision becomes almost a pleasure if the notes are eminently readable and carry their message with punch . |
18 | There was no difference between the two groups in the lag phase , but the time for 50% gastric emptying was less during treatment with loperamide oxide ( p<0.01 ) and gastric emptying was faster in patients after treatment with loperamide oxide ( p<0.05 ) than in control subjects ( Table IV ) . |
19 | In local authorities , the principal repayments were forced through the revenue account : the law was in effect saying that provision must be made annually for repayment of debt . |
20 | Among those involved were former Interior Secretary James Watt and Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills [ see below for investigation into Senator in relation to HUD scandal ] . |
21 | They are set down again below for ease of reference in relation to the VOR . |
22 | ( See below for directive on fitting of catalytic converters . ) |
23 | Teaching and learning are very different , and the student must not rely on teaching alone for development of expertise . |
24 | In any event , however , the number of branches says less and less about capacity in banking . |
25 | The over-extension of the idea is ludicrous , but not ludicrous enough : the connectedness of absolutely everything is the first principle of conpiracy theory anyway , so for want of exaggeration or originality the joke falls horribly flat . |
26 | However , cost would preclude very frequent advertising via this particular medium , so for frequency of exposure it would be preferable to consider hoardings and transport advertisements ( eg as with the famous Guinness advertisements ) . |
27 | I think they do so for peace of mind . |
28 | Galileo in a letter to Kepler ( who showed that the orbits must be ellipses , not circles with the foci at the Sun ) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been ‘ too timid ’ to say so for fear of ridicule . |
29 | Its preamble stating that persons chargeable in their parish " merely for want of work " could in another place find " sufficient employment as to be able to maintain themselves without being burthensome " . |
30 | In the UK and Ireland , whilst a few people are getting poorer , the majority of people are increasing their standard of living and most expect to get better off year after year . |