Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The [ draft ] FRS requires such instruments to be accounted for wholly as a liability . |
| 2 | But good looks ai n't going to count for much if the sound 's not up to much . |
| 3 | However , in-flight service and experience do n't count for much if the plane is n't going where you want to be . |
| 4 | It should be visited only before about 8am , or after 5pm when the light is at its best , and certainly could n't be photographed successfully at any other time . |
| 5 | Tattersalls will consider its position as soon as the Chancellor 's decision is definite . |
| 6 | For this reason , says the head of a big aid agency in Kampala , the constituent assembly may try to force political pluralism through sooner than the president would like . |
| 7 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 8 | And if you quoted the earnings as opposed to some of these undertakings or districts , erm then there was a wide gap you know er which we felt the benefit of rather than the reverse . |
| 9 | In a couple of years-sooner if a child is born — I 'll be forgiven and Anna will be taken into the family . |
| 10 | For recognition systems which use electronic paper ( tablet and display combined ) there remains a user-interface problem of exactly when the display of script should be removed for the recognised text to appear . |
| 11 | So we shall postpone consideration of just where the semantics/pragmatics borderline cuts across the field of deixis until 2.3 below . |
| 12 | of like cos a maisonette 's got an upstairs has n't it , and his |
| 13 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 14 | ‘ Let's get out of here before the mob swamps us again . ’ |
| 15 | Police have declined to give details of precisely where the body was found in the vehicle , or if there were any signs of injury . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've got to get our bird out of there before the balloon goes up . |
| 17 | Sales Express , a firm of computerized auctioneers , has experienced unparalleled growth of late as the marketplace has become flooded with goods from companies that have gone into receivership . |
| 18 | There 's old adage ; one game at time , but for once when the pressure 's been on Swindon have done the business and they are looking very solid . |
| 19 | A company is often in danger of losing the expertise for ever if the expert retires , dies or changes employment . |
| 20 | I do n't want to be anywhere near here when the sun comes up . |
| 21 | The wraith of a smile was still strung across the chief inspector 's lips — a configuration they fell into naturally when the brain behind them was puzzled — as Dexter unglued one eyelid and focused his eyes on her . |
| 22 | Colour of species is not dealt with partly because the information is not available for many species and also because the range of variation has not been studied . |
| 23 | Above her , an eagle soared , its gliding majesty holding her spellbound , and she was lost in a world of her own , a world she had never stepped into before as the beauty , the staggering grandeur and the warmth of Spain gripped her imagination . |
| 24 | Sometimes you lost a shop steward erm notwithstanding sometimes if the work study department needed a er an extra man er you would lose a shop steward . |
| 25 | He says : ‘ I am absolutely delighted by the honour — but more because of the people it has come from rather than the award itself . |
| 26 | The temperatures experienced by a mineral in the crust or mantle can be affected by heat flow from below while the pressure can be altered by loading and unloading of the crust above . |
| 27 | A previous decision should not be departed from merely because the House considers it to be wrong and only rarely should questions of construction be reconsidered . |
| 28 | The word ‘ ascertained ’ is used in the Sale of Goods Act to mean goods which become identified and agreed upon only after the contract is made . |
| 29 | The black tip of that arrow was scarlet with blood , but I reckoned it had n't gone in further than a rib or my spine . |
| 30 | ( c ) A draft timetable ( which can be amended later ) showing the dates by which you hope to progress your project from now until the date of submission . |