Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lexandro grinned wildly , for within but a few more weeks he was to have holes drilled through his carapace so that he could jack in to power armour . |
| 2 | ‘ Not for less than a thousand pounds ! ’ cried Lady Durbeyfield . |
| 3 | After more than a hundred years of the recognition of industrial picketing as a democratic mechanism the official Code of Practice issued by the Department of Employment says : ‘ There is no legal ‘ right to picket ’ as such but peaceful picketing has long been recognised as lawful . ’ |
| 4 | The unofficial sanctuary has been running for four years and is now looking after more than a hundred animals . |
| 5 | Just after 7am and the early morning October haze lifts to reveal over a hundred staff from Pest Control London . |
| 6 | Timing is also of the essence — flowers can be sent to you through the post as soon as the special event is over , but the best option is to be able to press them on the very day that they are used . |
| 7 | There is no set pattern for grieving , for just as no two people love in the same way , no two people grieve in the same way . |
| 8 | For just as the latter are then not receiving as much employment as they would normally like at the prevailing real wage rate , so the former are not providing as much as they would normally like . |
| 9 | For just as the British rejected the multimillion-pound blandishments by Suchard three years ago on behalf of richer , more bitter European chocolate , so Continental consumers are largely unimpressed by UK products . |
| 10 | Unless you have a very small conference of less than a hundred people avoid low ceilings ; it 's like being in a crowded rail commuter carriage and everyone feels oppressed and claustrophobic . |
| 11 | The uroflow er revealed a volume of less than a hundred and fifty mil in the great majority of patients and we 've , we would dismiss that er data . |
| 12 | Minor movements of less than a hundred metres or so are probably best regarded as interruptions in one main cycle . |
| 13 | Although having a population of less than a thousand , public street lighting , bus depots and council housing estates give the town an urban character and its isolated situation at the head of the loch adds a feeling of insularity . |
| 14 | That is to say , an object fired vertically upward from the surface of the star with a velocity of less than a thousand kilometers per second would be dragged back by the gravitational field of the star and would return to the surface , whereas an object with a velocity greater than that would escape to infinity . |
| 15 | For days now there had been no news from France , evidence that the Emperor had forbidden all traffic over the border , but that silence did not necessarily suggest an immediate invasion , but rather the concealment of exactly where the French forces concentrated . |
| 16 | I stared blankly at the carefully drawn and accurate illustration of exactly where the main arteries could be found nearest the surface in the arms and wrists … and in the legs . |
| 17 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 18 | In Wiltshire out of more than a thousand tests fifty one proved positive compared with sixty last year . |
| 19 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |
| 20 | Their South Molton cottage ( guide price £44,000-£46,000 ) is one of more than 20 lots to be put up for sale at the Barnstaple auction by Bristol and West Property Services , and one of more than a hundred which the building society subsidiary will be auctioning in eight West Country venues over a three-day period . |
| 21 | This new anthology should disturb many literary preconceptions with its forceful and charming discoveries , taken from the work of more than a hundred women . |
| 22 | — — — The programme described faulty workmanship in a number of new timber-frame homes following a survey of more than a hundred building sites . |
| 23 | The nine-mile-long Crinan Canal was cut through the Kintyre peninsula from Crinan Lock to Loch Fyne to create a passage for shipping that saved a journey of more than a hundred miles . |
| 24 | Its houses , shop , pub and post office were built on a narrow shelf of rock looking out over Start Bay , and it had a population of more than a hundred people . |
| 25 | But numerous patronymics of later formation have lasted — Johnson , Jackson , Peterson , Lawson , FitzPayne — perhaps to a total of more than a hundred and fifty , and to this day there are useful studies to be carried out on the distribution patterns of such rarities as Mattimoe = relative of Matthew . |
| 26 | Er also patients who had a volume of more than a hundred and fifty mils , er the maximum flow was less than fifteen in , in er only fifty patients . |
| 27 | The post-void study revealed a , a residual volume of more than a hundred mils in about a third of patients , . |
| 28 | It was the sound of more than a hundred working men and it rose above the sounds of the countryside that had become familiar to Seb 's ears . |
| 29 | The first of more than a hundred special advice centres for carers has been opened by the Princess Royal . |
| 30 | The former Brent Walker leisure group chief , George Walker , has been made bankrupt in the High Court in connection with debts of more than a hundred and eighty million pounds . |