Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lucky for some as Dunwoody squeezed home a twenty to one winner . |
| 2 | Another from Blackburn contained twice as much : 7,750 ug/litre lead or 155 times the EC limit and 77 times the action level . |
| 3 | My authority receives half as much in grant as an authority such as Manchester to provide exactly the same level of teaching service . |
| 4 | Providing oral substitutes such as Methadone perpetuates rather than reduces the addictive disease and all its attendant risks . |
| 5 | The Malaysians , in the process of razing their own country 's rainforests , have become world experts in the quick-timber business ; local problems in places such as Sarawak have suddenly expanded into international threats — and any country in the world with any tropical rainforests left is in danger of getting the full , ruthless Sarawak treatment . |
| 6 | Rural counties such as Gwynedd suffer particularly since they often have very low density settlements , rugged terrain and relatively poor roads . |
| 7 | Thus the courts have , for example , limited their intervention in cases concerning homeless persons , using arguments concerning the subjectivity of administrative discretion which found little favour in cases such as Tameside considered above ; and they have counselled restraint in circumstances where propositions of law are interwoven with issues of social and ethical controversy concerning the scope of parental rights , while being more willing to intervene where legal issues are intertwined with questions of social and economic choice , as in the Bromley case . |
| 8 | The source of rising neo-fascism , which in countries such as France has now deeply infected the political mainstream , is the contradiction that has opened up in Europe between democratic aspirations and its economic policy . |
| 9 | Jordan , Egypt and Turkey had earned substantial revenues from workers ' remittances and trade with Iraq and Kuwait ; some middle-income countries such as India relied heavily on oil imports from Iraq and also benefited from sizeable remittance flows ; and for some low-income countries , including Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh and the Philippines , the loss of remittances and the rising cost of oil imports were expected to slow growth rates to an average of around 1.5 per cent by 1991 and add some $3,000 million to annual Third-World debt interest payments . |
| 10 | Lakes and rivers in heavily farmed counties such as Cavan have long suffered from irresponsible dumping by farmers . |
| 11 | Smaller ports such as Charlestown had all but disappeared but ports such as Methil 3m tons , Leith 2m tons , Burntisland 1.5m tons , Grangemouth 1.8m tons and Granton 0.8m tons had steadily increased . |
| 12 | Although buildings such as Hurstmonceux had already marked a shift from the primarily military dwellings of the middle ages , the later sixteenth century saw in Sussex a flowering in great house-building which has never been equalled since . |
| 13 | The Odyssey or the Recherche is only , in a certain way , an amplification ( in the rhetorical sense ) of statements such as Ulysses comes home to Ithaca or Marcel becomes a writer ’ ( 1980 : 30 ) . |
| 14 | It is true that much of England had already been enclosed by 1760 , but in some areas , notably in the south and east Midlands in counties like Northamptonshire , Cambridge and Oxfordshire , more than half of enclosures took place after 1760 under acts of parliament . |
| 15 | Unlike America , much of Europe has already accepted the notion that any facility or service capable of generating cash-flow and profit is capable of being privatised . |
| 16 | I ca n't tell that with McDunn sitting there ; it would be like telling my father . |
| 17 | Not all of Europe shared equally in this expansion . |
| 18 | The envelope contained a ‘ Big Mouth Strikes Again ’ label with the words AND SO SAY ALL OF US scrawled strangely on the other side . |
| 19 | , he he owns them big stud , Beech House Stud , that 's a all along Ashley reach right down here to your , to , to Upend , you know land . |
| 20 | Outstanding applications were those from the nine other former Soviet republics ( those from all except Azerbaijan having already been approved by the IMF Board of Governors in April ) , and the applications from Croatia , Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina filed in April . |
| 21 | Over 36% of all at Hunterston have now participated in a TOP Time-Out , and 44 Improvement Teams with 178 members have had their recommendations accepted . |
| 22 | The rings she and her school investigated , in one sense dual to those of Artin mentioned above , are now called , naturally enough , Noetherian rings . |
| 23 | The cave-dwellers of the Dordogne obtained shells from the Mediterranean and those of Mentone had apparently secured some of theirs from as far afield as the Indian Ocean . |
| 24 | Comparison of the road and rail systems here with those in France reveals only too clearly the consequences of neglect ; the French typically spend around 1% of GDP on their transport infrastructure , while we have managed barely half that figure . |
| 25 | The 2nd half was much of the same with Leeds having even more of the play but creating even less chances ( or so it seemed ) . |