Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 2 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 3 | A routine was established which went on for more than a year . |
| 4 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 5 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 6 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 7 | Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them . |
| 8 | Thereafter it monitors the quality of the incoming electrical supply , smoothing out peaks and troughs and cutting in for real if the power cuts out completely . |
| 9 | They always came in for more than a little if they had offended him in the past . |
| 10 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 11 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 13 | Now the proportion is down to less than a quarter , and falling . |
| 14 | In some areas public order and drunkenness offences are down by more than a third . |
| 15 | But since nineteen eighty seven , daily paper sales are down by more than a tenth . |
| 16 | But by the time Rachel arrived at the factory gates the October sunshine was doing its best to struggle through with more than a promise of a fine day to come . |
| 17 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 18 | Her re-fit was over in less than a fortnight and she was back on the Atlantic run and into the storms . |
| 19 | It was over in less than an hour with Christina winning in straight sets . |
| 20 | ‘ The battle was over in less than an hour , ’ says the leaflet , and eventually the Prince 's message went out , ‘ Let every man find his own way to safety the best way he can . ’ |
| 21 | He went on like that until the chief officer nodded him through with a glazed look in his eyes . |
| 22 | And it goes on and on like this until the voice is erm , I ca n't feel anything any more . |
| 23 | It takes at least two terms even to become familiar with a new job but , after that , few management changes can be put off for more than a year . |
| 24 | Talking to our readers , Personnel Managers , we find that they 're having to force most of Britain 's bosses to take time off over less than a quarter of British managers regularly take all their holiday entitlement . |
| 25 | I did manage to lose half a stone ( 7lb/3kg ) , but I was so hungry all the time that I would not keep the diet up for longer than a month . |
| 26 | The high-rise hype blew up in our faces , with the demolition of tower blocks in London and Merseyside appearing as slow-motion spectaculars on television , hundreds of homes up for less than a lifetime now squandered . |
| 27 | Having made it , that family was split up for more than a year , but was reunited after the Blitz and eventually settled in Torquay . |
| 28 | The back-to-back pair of dessert spoons riffled through his fingers , producing an intricate , staccato percussion which he was , however , unable to keep up for more than a few minutes together ; then he would get his fingers tangled up and the spoons would clang to a halt and he would shake his head furiously and begin all over again . |
| 29 | You wo n't be able to keep it up for more than a week . ’ |
| 30 | Even allowing it the benefit of this doubt , our hypothetical small party would be very unlikely to end up with more than the same percentage of seats , 8.4 , as the Irish party . |