Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it 's turned out , it 's not efficient because the the ray dome spent a tremendous amount of time moving from one country to the other , there 's no doubt about that and before production we would want to see that particular nonsense removed and the whole thing made a lot more efficient , but for one or two development batch ray domes then you know , they 'll just have to learn from that lesson . |
| 2 | In exchange for that and about £35 worth of New Zealand dollars , I got my validation from Canterbury AC 's CFI , Murray Fowler . |
| 3 | Obviously at the moment we we all of us are really tied up with living from a Tuesday to a Saturday really you know with Tuesdays our meeting and then all that has to be done after that and then Saturday is the food parcels you know so and most people work as well either part time or full time work at home er with the kids and bringing up families so and obviously also money is shor short for people that are directly involved in the strike so erm . |
| 4 | Saltburn struggled last season but they restricted hosts Middlesbrough to a total of 163 for six and then Mark Walker , whose 90 included 13 fours , and Indian professional Mukund Palmar ( 65 ) , shared an unbroken partnership of 137 to snatch a nine-wicket away win . |
| 5 | Underlying such accounts was an image of fraternal and cousinly solidarities and loyalties : if an outsider harmed your brother , you had to come to his support , even if you yourself were in dispute with him . |
| 6 | With the experience of a long and close association with world class designers , notably German Frers , we have developed a superb range of graceful and seakindly ocean cruising yachts with an emphasis on style and effortless performance . |
| 7 | In a record of a grant of land in Thanet in January 690 to Aebbe ( Eafe ) , daughter of Eormenred and now abbess of Minster-in-Thanet , Oswine refers to her as his kinswoman ( CS 35 : S 13 ) , and in another charter granting land to Aebbe which had once belonged to Eormenred he expresses gratitude at his restoration to the kingdom of his fathers ( CS 40 : S 14 ) . |
| 8 | In the second century AD the emperor Hadrian developed a new relationship between Rome and the Greek heartlands , which allowed the culture of Classical and later Greece to flourish until late antiquity . |
| 9 | A king would not be an hereditary monarch , but would be elected from a small cohort of princely and chiefly families , in the ancient Irish manner . |
| 10 | She taught English , mainly in teacher training colleges , becoming vice-principal of one and then Principal of Charlotte Mason College , Ambleside until 1970 . |
| 11 | The 14 Felixstowe club members averaged 14 oz per man over the two legs to the average of four and half oz for the six Clacton members to take the cup . |
| 12 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 13 | The other tribe , however , finds twins fearful , appalling , degrading , an aberration , because you see only animals have litters of young and therefore twins are considered to be inferior , a threat , so much so , in fact , that this latter tribe ritually murders them at birth . |
| 14 | When you start is to do a thing , put that mallet down like that and then line up the which you need to go . |
| 15 | Although DG plans eight-processor models — see above — the optimum for the AViiON 's tightly-coupled architecture is ‘ somewhere above eight and below 16″ , according to West . |
| 16 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 17 | Our Daily Bread was released in 1934 and immediately Otis Ferguson contrasted ‘ Hollywood 's aversion to social content ’ to ‘ Mr Vidor 's preoccupation with it ’ . |
| 18 | He seems to like getting rid of the crowd pleasers , look at his history Cantona last year , Vinny a few years back , John Sheridan before that and now Batty . |
| 19 | But for the next two decades , as the volume of junk outstanding rose to $15 billion in 1980 and then $201 billion in 1989 , the default rate stayed low . |
| 20 | The sting for the oil industry came in the Chancellor 's later acknowledgment that he expected the changes in the oil taxation system to yield £300 million in additional Government revenue in 1994-95 and about £400 million the following year . |
| 21 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
| 22 | The West European market for computer products and services will grow by about 4.3% in 1993 and 6.8% in 1994 , according to Bruno Lamborghini , president of the Eurobit industry group , which presented the study to a conference in Brussels : market growth was 14.2% in 1989 and 8.9% in 1990 , slowing to 4.3% in 1991 and just 3% last year , having topped 15% for most of the 1980s . |
| 23 | The maximum number of new shares which may be issued under the schemes is restricted to 5% of the issued ordinary share capital over the first five years ending in 1991 and thereafter 3% over any three year period . |
| 24 | He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 . |
| 25 | Tam David-West , Petroleum Resources Minister in 1984-86 and subsequently Mines , Power and Steel Minister until 1988 , was granted bail on Sept. 17 after being charged with " corruptly enriching " in 1986 a United States-based oil company . |
| 26 | The Corn Is Green was to be done on the new medium of television in 1946 and somehow Philip wangled leave of absence from the RAF for Richard who yet again played Morgan Evans and yet again was pulled back from the gypsy snares of freewheeling pleasure to the source and the purpose of it all . |
| 27 | Some Conservatives , astonishingly enough , had even visualized the return to the Treasury of Roy Jenkins , a Labour minister until 1976 and now President of the European Commission in Brussels . |
| 28 | Though pineapples from Barbados were first brought to England in 1657 and more West Indian ones were given to the king in 1661 and 1668 , it is unlikely that the fruit was grown successfully in England until about 1690 at Hampton Court , then in the charge of George London [ q.v . ] , |
| 29 | He joined William Jenkins , appointed chief organizing agent in 1911 and previously district agent for the Midlands Liberal Unionists . |
| 30 | The work was carried out in 1843 and again Salvin was architect . |