Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must also be borne in mind that in 685 Ecgfrith was able to invade through Strathmore as far as Nechtanesmere ( Dunnichen ) , near Forfar , which will have been in the more northerly kingdom of Circinn ( between the Isla and the Dee ) . |
| 2 | Until you are within a minute or two of your ETA , there is no need to call for QDMs more frequently than at a half to one minute intervals . |
| 3 | And then , without caring what the headmaster might think , he ran after Maisie as fast as he could . |
| 4 | Collections for medical supplies were also undertaken and the first British Medical Unit of doctors and nurses , organized by the Spanish Medical Aid Committee , left for Spain as early as August 1936 . |
| 5 | The bulk of Germany 's railways were established between 1848 and 1877 , but even then they served the west of Germany far better than they served the east . |
| 6 | He decided to get shut of Eleanor as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | However , I am writing to Alan Harlow to state our disappointment ; to point out that we can not continue to pay subscriptions if the grant is not increased ; that we are doing our best to find sponsorship ( I 've written , on my own initiative , to 3 companies who might be willing to help , on environmental grounds ) ; that sponsorship from SNH is pretty unlikely , a ) because they do n't do any core funding , and b ) because the NCC element appears to be dominant there anyway ; that sponsorship from the Sports Council is also unlikely , though we are seeking a meeting with Terry Dowey of SSA as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Their interest in Celtic lands and civilization became apparent only in the fourth century B.C. , though they had founded the important colony of Marseilles as early as the end of the seventh century . |
| 9 | He did not assert his claims for the structure and rites and liturgy of the Church of England as highly as did the divines of the next century . |
| 10 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 11 | Berghofer was reconfirmed as mayor of Dresden shortly afterwards and declared that he would not join another party until after the election . |
| 12 | The landed interests , who still dominated the House of Commons as well as the House of Lords , were outraged : ‘ a more distinct and determined invasion of the rights of property could not have been devised ’ . |
| 13 | During the successive rounds of these twin controversies Baldwin used with remarkable freedom the House of Commons as well as public platforms to carry on the debate within his own party . |
| 14 | So Geoffrey 's gon na ring the bloke when he he 's gon na try and get hold of Mr later on and ring him because we 've got to let this other man know you know he ca n't have it . |
| 15 | As he turned to return down the steps he was thinking of Carrie once more and not taking care where he was stepping . |
| 16 | In 1771 the Chancellor , Maupeou , exiled the Parlement of Paris once more and abolished the offices held by its members . |
| 17 | But the Chinese Muslims are spread throughout the country , from Xinjiang in the north-west right along the Great Wall of China as far as Peking and dotted throughout Ningxia province , including such key cities as Xian , home of the famous terracotta army , where the Chinese-style pavilions of the Great Mosque have been a place of worship for Muslims since the eighth century . |
| 18 | ‘ Paid an' all , ’ Garty said , sidling crab-like towards Jess as well as he could , managing to stand on her skirt . |
| 19 | Nothing could impress the Jews of Egypt more favourably than a letter by Judas Maccabaeus in person to the very respected Jewish-Egyptian writer Aristobulus , who will recur in our story . |
| 20 | Much as he mistrusted almost every Irishman with whom he came in contact on the Continent ( Bishop Clement for his disrespect of patristic authority , the priest Sampson for his cavalier attitude to the baptismal rite , Virgil of Salzburg for sowing dissension between himself and the duke of Bavaria as well as for believing that the world was round ) , Boniface 's establishing of monasteries as the learned back-up to missionary work and his devotion to the papacy and to Rome both owed something to the Irish background in England . |
| 21 | Labour 's 1983 election manifesto pledged the party to ‘ take action to abolish the undemocratic House of Lords as quickly as possible and , as an interim measure , introduce a bill in the first session of Parliament to remove its legislative powers — with the exception of those that relate to the life of a parliament ’ . |
| 22 | He warned that if Slovenia went ahead with secession , EC support would be withdrawn — leading to the total economic collapse of Yugoslavia as early as September . |
| 23 | A historian concerned to reconstruct the life of Abraham as exactly as possible wants to know what changes the story of Abraham went through in the process of retelling . |
| 24 | Britain remains the Dirty Man of Europe so far as SO&sub2 ; and NOx pollution is concerned , and will do so even when the EC Large Plant Directive is implemented by 2003 . |
| 25 | Deposits of comparable material which extend from the Ukraine westwards along the foot of the Hercynian uplands of Europe as far as the chalk plateaus of Artois and Picardy , were most likely derived by deflation from the glacial deposits of the North European Plain during the Pleistocene period . |
| 26 | There are references to such ‘ gonnes ’ in accounts of the siege of Berwick as early as 1333 , while it is likely that some form of artillery was brought across the sea by the English for the long siege of Calais of 1346–7 . |
| 27 | Change was in the air of Glasgow as surely as Bill Haley , his kiss curl hanging limply over one eye , was singing ‘ Rockin' Through the Rye ’ and driving an entirely new breed of Glaswegian wild with frenzy … the teenager . |
| 28 | A versatile and hardy traveller , his earliest journey was to Italy and Sicily , the prelude to an extended and detailed tour of Greece as far as Thessaly . |
| 29 | Those applicants wishing to make use of this agreement , details of which should be available from their current institutions , should contact the appropriate Faculty at the University of Edinburgh as early as possible . |
| 30 | With regard to Calvinism , Ewing had joined Thomas Erskine [ q.v. ] of Linlathen as early as 1836 in opposing predestination , and he later came close to a doctrine of universal salvation . |