Example sentences of "[adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [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 | Constructed for the most part in terms of a technology that was , by comparison with the main technologies of the nineteenth century , primitive and unsystematic , there were few really significant improvements to them through the century and by 1900 they provided no semblance of a genuine transport service . |
| 3 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Crimea had been administratively part of Ukraine since 1954 , before which it had belonged to Russia . |
| 6 | ( b ) Reject those words which obscure rather than clarify meaning-words which are only present for purposes of style , linguistic sense , grammar , or form . |
| 7 | the right of access : eg entitlement to membership of committees and contact with other ‘ powerful ’ individuals in the organisation ; and |
| 8 | Nature was never especially kind to Leith in regard to the formation of the harbour , having placed a large stretch of sand across the mouth of the stream and with no sheltered bay or inlet , the approaches were often hazardous . |
| 9 | This book is also different to ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ because there are no racist scenes , only prejudice towards Imamu from both the Police and in some cases the Aimsleys , when their daughter goes missing and they think that because he is a street boy who comes from Harlem , a lower class area than Brooklyn and that he has just been acquitted on a murder rap , he 's got something to do with Perk 's disappearance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Alright so fear of loss of control . |
| 12 | " 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | general matters — eg effect of concentration on consumers and the development of technical progress . |
| 17 | Conversely , exposure of samples to the high vacuum within the XPS spectrometer may lead to surface alteration , especially loss of water from hydrated samples . |
| 18 | he sat up last night , he sat up last night we was gon na watch the ten o'clock movie on telly with me . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | First , it is possible to operate with columns , using postmultiplying matrices Mi ; but this is really only transposition of operations on rows . |
| 21 | So transfer of germs to the vagina does happen — and it 's possible those germs might lead to vaginal discharge . |
| 22 | In Social Security Appeal Tribunals , the claimant will receive only compensation for loss of earnings ( if any ) and travelling expenses . |
| 23 | Only enterochromaffin like cells with a visible nucleus were counted . |
| 24 | It may well be , in any case , that we now have a high enough proportion of school-leavers in cap and gown . |
| 25 | • Fabienne survived a complicated birth with only acupuncture in conjunction with homeopathy |
| 26 | One of the first of our combined operations with the ID was in 1978 and heralded anew era in co-operation between our sea and shore based officers . |
| 27 | There is no one ‘ best ’ policy , merely one that secures a broad enough basis of support to be agreed upon and passed . |
| 28 | But I mean no I think I think it 's obviously sort of sort of reduced |
| 29 | In the absence of adequate bus production capacity in the United Kingdom , we can face only danger in terms of the future bus market . |
| 30 | Other rarities include the second only record in London of the foliose lichen Peltigera didactyla , which was only discovered during the survey , funded by WWF and UK2000 . |