Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In Manchester , as in Scotland , it was a good night for Labour but overall the result was still devastating .
2 That any pricing system adopted recognises the budgetary context as indicated both by the size of DSS transfer and placement rates for 1993/94 but also the inflationary pressures inherent in the adoption of explicit ceilings to which prices may converge .
3 The disparity between that and even the increased pension rates of £54 and £86 for a single person and married couple is enormous and it is getting worse every year .
4 Though this is probably fanciful and certainly without basis in contemporary record , Jaenberht 's alienation from Offa may have been very real , because of the suppression of Kentish independence after 784–5 and now the partition of his province .
5 OK so the occasional ( ! ) taunt may be made at a footy game but it IS a football match after all and not a place for the fainthearted .
6 ‘ Is it for real or just a fantasy ?
7 plastic ones which were close to the ceiling , can you , could you give me a bit more of a description of that or perhaps a manufacturer 's name ?
8 Yeah I know all that but I 'm not taking the piss out of that cos obviously the way he said it !
9 Known as ‘ Fizzer ’ to his colleagues and our fans , Phil played in every game of Palace 's promotion season of 1988–89 and only an injury , sustained on his 1st Division debut at Queens Park Rangers , prevented him from completing full appearances in 1989–90 , although he was an ever-present member of the team that reached the 1990 FA Cup Final and so nearly seized the famous trophy .
10 If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory .
11 And then er just work out the length of this and then the length of that and then subtract these two lengths .
12 And this was a wonderful old grocery shop , er plain wooden floors you know , no tiles or anything like that , just the wood floors and I can see the barrels of apples and the barrels of this and then the oranges and the all the groceries and the bags of flour and the bags of sugar and and the and the grocer weighing the sugar up and all this sort of thing .
13 It seems to me that this is a situation the reverse of liberal and even the reverse of democratic , in the sense in which the word has hitherto been understood .
14 The areas where we put in most effort were Reed Tool the drill bit company where there were redundancies earlier in the year and in particular the U S operations of Redder and also the U S operations of Camco Products where in fact in the U S part of it , there are now thirty eight percent less people employed than there were a year ago .
15 Idealogically of course it 's been a battle of Left and Right the Right won , we 've had a return a resserection of the 'Hang Em , Flog Em' Brigade some ugly xenophobia at times and of course multipule attacks on the Media .
16 With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life .
17 In a service there should be a mix of these and not a concentration on one metre or one key , for example .
18 about erm ten of these and then the head
19 The answer may be one or both of these and only a careful rescue package can avert a total disaster .
20 Well look the the one quarter part of it means , find the fourth root of sixteen and then the three means cube your answer .
21 The House of Commons Environment Committee ( which could be presumed to care about being popular ) , the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ( which has more expertise and rather less concern with popularity ) and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ( which has most expertise of all and absolutely no interest in popularity ) have all been robustly and consistently critical of most parts of the waste-disposal chain .
22 So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person .
23 At a level above that is assembly language whose commands normally translate into a set , of ten or perhaps a hundred , machine language commands .
24 By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin .
25 But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners .
26 Continuity between the two fabliaux in the case of animal imagery is a matter of more than just a general resemblance .
27 On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing .
28 So the coppicing at Westonbirt arboretum may help to ensure the survival of more than just the trees .
29 Even when this is used , it is not advisable to expect a safe endurance of more than about an hour .
30 And the ‘ they ’ of more or less the whole town will have heard too .
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