Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I 've got to think — if anything happened to me mother , say she were to pass away tonight — I 've no job and nothing coming in at all , only perhaps interest from savings which would n't keep me …
2 However , there does seem to be evidence that older people from professional and managerial backgrounds overconsume primary care services , especially home visits from GPs .
3 The Five Nations Championship is understandably the envy of the rest of the rugby world and what spice will be added to the coming encounters — notably when England travel once more to Murrayfield on the opening day and return to Paris in February ; when Ireland , so nearly conquerors of champions Australia , run out once more at Lansdowne Road , and Wales begin their brave attempt to rise like some Phoenix from the ashes .
4 There might be words for ‘ man ’ , ‘ seal ’ , ‘ booty ’ , etc. , and perhaps also words for events such as killings or harpoonings .
5 What will happen if schools fail to comply with the recommendations remains to be seen — so far introduction of reviews has resulted in substantial voluntary initiatives for change in all Dutch medical schools .
6 Electronic mailing lists like this can easily be infiltrated by other supporters , but thankfully segregation is n't necessary , and so far policemen on horses have yet to be called in to arrest computer terminals ( or even Sonic the Hedgehog ) for causing an affray .
7 This is designed to test the feasibility of extending fundholding to cover all services and not just the limited range of services at present included — which represents only about 20% of services purchased from providers .
8 For instance , there is good evidence that in Ghana in the 1960s only about 22% of births and 17% of deaths were being registered .
9 Thus they calculated that in 1970 only about 7% of adults over 25 owned any shares and most of them were ‘ smallholders ’ with less than 1,000 's worth of stock .
10 Only about 70% of households approached agreed to participate in the Family Expenditure Survey .
11 The treatment prescribed in may cases is either vitamin B6 or the contraceptive pill ( only around 20% of respondents found either to be helpful ) .
12 But this account also indicates that an analysis of society in terms of practices might enable us to understand not only how states of affairs are maintained , but also how they change .
13 Overall , just under 50% of pupils in these schools are boys , just over 50% girls ( ISIS , 1990 ) .
14 Just under 70% of authorities participated in the survey and nearly 400 data sheets were completed ( see Appendix 1 for sample details ) .
15 Even so , Pirelli claims to have assembled an alliance controlling just over 50% of shareholders ' votes , which might seem to give it victory .
16 Recorded annual precipitation ranges from just over 1000mm in parts of the Broad Bay area of Lewis to over 2400 mm on some of the higher summits of Harris .
17 Each week she receives just over £100 in benefits , but has only enough money left to feed her children after paying bills , a mortgage and housing repairs .
18 Just over 20% of referrals went to private clinics in phase 1 .
19 A spokesman added , however , that more detailed investigations were needed to determine exactly why clusters of cases had occurred around the country .
20 The minimal acceptances are thus essentially sets of channels , and so in constructing them we must identify all guards corresponding to the same channel .
21 But this ‘ feminization ’ only went so far : ‘ Still only boys for singers ?
22 MORE rain was on the way to much of Britain yesterday just hours after parts of Scotland and northern England finished clearing up after floods and snowfalls .
23 Although we can specify types of people , e.g. computer scientists , typographers , editors , publishers , and more generally scientists versus humanists , much of the current technology breaks down these specializations .
24 The blaze broke out early yesterday morning in premises once occupied by The Cheapest Wallpapers and Paints in the town 's Parliament Road .
25 The latter mosaic from Dyer Street ( a 3 x 3 arrangement of octagonal panels ) is of a more even blend of figures , although these are yet more elaborate and individualistic ( pictures in their own right ) .
26 The purpose of this practice is to ensure a more even distribution of pupils around the LEA 's schools .
27 The majority of finds consist of objects , or more frequently fragments of objects , that have been lost , thrown away or deliberately buried .
28 As well as the chance to witness the climax of the men 's and women 's World Marathon Cup and watch a friend or relative struggle over the line , the tickets also include breakfast at a London hotel , once again courtesy of adidas UK .
29 In Britain today , the Holstein type is almost threatening to extinguish the dual-purpose Friesian type completely and there is once again confusion about names , with the British Friesian Society changing its name in 1988 to the Holstein Friesian Society of Great Britain .
30 More recently accounts of women confronting the rent collectors in Northern Ireland with the din of beating pots and pans are typical of women 's involvement in housing campaigns before and since ( Cow-ley , 1980 ) .
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