Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this person makes a short , stilted contribution encourage the speaker through obviously listening and asking them to continue : ‘ What else do you think about the proposal ? ’ or ‘ Can 1 ask Bill to say some more about his department ? ’ |
| 2 | Robbins also related to the upskilling debate — the expansion of education and the high birth rate of the immediate post-war period , for example , had given rise to a shortage of qualified teachers especially in primary schools , and changes in the numbers of white-collar jobs available to women had also given rise to a demand for better qualified and certificated female labour . |
| 3 | Another empty day with none of the jobs she had carried out day after day for so long that filled her time with things she enjoyed . |
| 4 | Pro footballers are only in the game for so long and have to make as much out of it while they can . |
| 5 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 6 | All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly . |
| 7 | Priced at just under £30,000 , however , the Alpine offers so much for so little as to question the morality of widening the scope of supercar ownership far beyond those dedicated few prepared to invest in the high level of training to drive one safely . |
| 8 | She knew she was afraid to play after so long and knew too that if she stayed here she would never play again . |
| 9 | The south-western end of the hole is dangerous , a sinister shaft piercing the ground to a depth of 345 feet and open to receive bodies falling from the steep slopes around ; from its dark base passages radiate like tentacles , one of them providing , after much crawling and diving through Satanic pools , a through route to an opening in the valley below . |
| 10 | No adult attention after 8pm other than putting to bed . |
| 11 | When this is lacking , the chance of successfully developing and maintaining optimum use of the online service systems is minimal . |
| 12 | Packets leaving the wrapping machine still passed over the checkweigher as before but now , instead of merely passing or rejecting each pack , the computer captured the data it measured and performed various analyses including the average weight and standard deviation for each hour . |
| 13 | ‘ And it was , in my view , the lack of sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach which led not only to the failure to appreciate that there was a Jersey partnership but also to some other of the faults I have identified . ’ |
| 14 | Sterling silver , containing one troy ounce , struck in proof finish with a 24-carat gold-covered oval cameo , each £20Can coin has a run of only 50,000 and come in presentation cases . |
| 15 | Similarly , the declining firm has a share price of only 4.75 and sells at a multiple to earnings of only 2.50 , whereas the supernormal growth firm has a share price of 47.07 and sells at a multiple to earnings of nearly 19 . |
| 16 | Does the Minister agree that perhaps a more urgent problem than the control of nuclear weapons in the republics of the former Soviet Union could be the vast amounts of conventional weapons that are in the hands of highly discontented and underpaid armed forces that have serious problems ? |
| 17 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 18 | However , it was precisely the lack of consensus about Thebes ' — or anybody else 's — leadership which in the fifth century led to federalism of so unusual and developed a kind , and which gave Boiotia the cohesion , and the manpower , to defeat Sparta at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 19 | The bat called Tadarida is capable of alternately contracting and relaxing its switching muscles 50 times per second , keeping in perfect synchrony with the machine gun-like pulses of ultrasound . |
| 20 | It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ . |
| 21 | SIR — When regretting the lack of an inventory of life ( see Gaston and Mound Nature 361 , 579 ; 1993 ) , we should be careful to distinguish the complete list of organisms , that is including many as yet undiscovered species , from the smaller set of just those that have already been described . |
| 22 | The firms offer a number of suggested reforms of both federal and state liability laws . |
| 23 | The Sandinistas lost the 1990 elections to UNO , a loose coalition of opposition groups of both right and left . |
| 24 | A NEW think-tank , Demos , was formed last night aimed at encouraging fresh political ideas that are independent of both Right and Left . |
| 25 | As the content of both variable and made from drawing files ( only ) contain the variation to the base part , to view the complete part both variable/made from and base part files are regenerated . |
| 26 | This has corroded and removed dolomite crystals to form an excellent porosity composed of both intercrystalline and intracrystalline voids ( Fig. 29d ) . |
| 27 | Rock physics The development of a high-pressure test rig to measure the velocity of propagation and the attenuation coefficient of both compressional and shear waves in natural materials at pressures up to 70 megapascals ( 0.7 kilobars ) has continued in collaboration with the University of Reading . |
| 28 | In this report we show that poly-L-ornithine combined with a DMSO shock mediates efficient transfection of both growing and resting cells . |
| 29 | Multi-use are more sophisticated types combining the principles of both single and re-use systems . |
| 30 | In fact , rather than that vast army of fairly young but experienced , skilled and dedicated men and women , battle-hardened by the '80s boom , quitting to study law , drive taxis or run pubs , they are already in step with the shifting sands . |