Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the total 79 referrals received between October 1987 and March 1988 , the NSPCC team dealt with 50 cases alone , jointly investigated one with social services department staff and referred the remainder on for various reasons for example , secondary task work . |
| 2 | Because it 's a beta version , I do n't propose to harp on about any niggles , but will say this — if more DOS applications adopt its user interface and usability as well as its wealth of functions , the death of DOS may be further off than many of us have predicted . |
| 3 | The man in the light-brown coat spooned the henna powder on to fancy scales with tiny brass weights , then folded it into a sheet of brown paper tied up with string . |
| 4 | Progressive rock believed in FUSION , the grafting on of new musics . |
| 5 | There are only three ways of controlling phylloxera : by grafting on to phylloxera-resistant rootstocks , the accepted method ; by planting into ‘ phylloxera-proof ’ soil of at least 85% sand content ; or by submersion ( flooding the vines ) for a period of sixty days in slightly permeable soils and ninety days in very permeable soils , sufficient to kill phylloxera but hardly practical for a working vineyard , especially when there is every likelihood that the parasite will return . |
| 6 | Could you really address Princess Diana as ‘ Your Royal Highness ’ after hearing her babble on for 20 minutes to a man who calls her Squidgy ? |
| 7 | Call Fidelity on for more details . |
| 8 | The next stage was to transfer this jumbled narrative on to A4-sized cards . |
| 9 | Perhaps we believe that others perceive us as weak and ineffectual when in reality we choose to make a stand only about those things which really matter , knowing that it often takes more strength to remain calm and in control than to meet aggression with more aggression . |
| 10 | The old constraint is federalism : the grant only of certain powers to central government . |
| 11 | 5.12.2 Not without the consent in writing of the Landlord to apply for planning permission to carry out any development in or upon the Premises and at the expense of the Tenant to supply the Landlord with a copy of any application for planning permission together with such plans and other documents as the Landlord may [ reasonably ] require and to supply prior to the commencement of any development a copy of any planning permission granted to the Tenant |
| 12 | Alternatively , we could provide multiplication and division only of non-negative numbers , or multiplication but not division , or multiplication together with the operation of taking the reciprocal ( as on the Cray-1 super-computer ) . |
| 13 | It cleverly created its Polo brand to exploit Americans ' nostalgia for an English country life which never really existed except in Hollywood movies , and has been careful to use the brand only for top-of-the-range products . |
| 14 | Heavens ! she thought , and was suddenly so impatient with herself that , seeing it was only for one night , for goodness ' sake , she grabbed hold of a favourite dress and folded that into her case along with some trousers and a spare lightweight sweater . |
| 15 | of all participatory sports facilities , unless we get more capital for our local authorities they will be able to spend money only on basic repairs ? |
| 16 | With visibility down to 25 yards in places , three motorists were killed in the M1 in Derbyshire . |
| 17 | With visibility down to 15 yards , rescue teams struggled to reach the man , but a doctor pronounced him dead . |
| 18 | Visibility Especially to those bosses with more power . |
| 19 | They were hemmed in on all sides by thick heavy stone , but still the wind managed to snake in through innumerable cracks and crannies . |
| 20 | Christmas dinner around the dining table will be rare treat and John says : ‘ Now the children are growing up , we hope they 'll be a bit more sensible and a bit less like unguided missiles . ’ |
| 21 | Another key aspect of the new courses has been the building in of planned linkages to degree provision . |
| 22 | In the Brianne catchment of mid-Wales streams with a hardness of less than 8 milligrams per litre of calcium carbonate ‘ have a depleted flora and fauna and salmonid fish are either absent or present only in small numbers ’ . |
| 23 | Full protection is shown by the 162bp fragment present only in visceral tissues . |
| 24 | This is a system of horizontal and vertical panels , thus a primary , secondary or teacher training panel ( horizontal ) which co-ordinates and moderates activities for a particular educational level together with vertical panels , say in mathematics , science or music which are responsible for the overall and systematic development of a subject . |
| 25 | It was a foursome in Pepe 's on Saturday , and Shelley let her hair down in more ways than one , dancing vigorously with the hunky Carlos , while Rosie and her good-looking little Francisco sat in the shadows , their heads close together . |
| 26 | We became ‘ best friends ’ as schoolgirls do , pushing our babies to the park together on fine afternoons and on wet ones , sitting in each other 's flats drinking whisky — how we afforded it I can not now imagine — while our babies played behind the sofa . |
| 27 | Witchell would be doing his party trick only in special circumstances . |
| 28 | Having lacked the opportunity to create a new constitutional framework afresh from first principles , Britain now stands out as one of the few nations lacking such a document . |
| 29 | That we Jews have our own country instead of being small part only of many countries . |
| 30 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |