Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You messed up their surveillance , you beat up their agents , you went in for exactly the same unauthorised adventurism as they had — and so let them off the hook . |
| 2 | A shake of the table on which it was standing would bring the pile down in exactly the same way that an earthquake shakes houses down . |
| 3 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
| 4 | The trouble is with the second horn parts , they often often have a wider register gap , and the first horn part which tends to waver up and down in vaguely the same place while the second sort of goes woo woo woo , jumps up and down . |
| 5 | All popular kinds of decorative pond fish can survive for several months during the winter without feeding , as their body processes slow down in much the same manner as a tree or shrub in the garden becomes dormant . |
| 6 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
| 7 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 8 | Basically any report on Eastern Europe 's problems comes down to much the same things : a heavy reliance on smokestack industries burning brown coal ( also known as lignite ) and pouring out uncontrolled noxious fumes , factories tipping their chemical wastes straight into rivers , and untreated sewage . |
| 9 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 10 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 11 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
| 12 | Weighing in at only a few ounces , you hardly notice that you 're wearing this jacket . |
| 13 | On Wednesday they had a quiet morning in the centre until just before lunch when two emergencies came in at virtually the same time . |
| 14 | Thus , courses , which , in the past , have started in September and finished in the following June , during which all students moved along at exactly the same speed of learning , will become a feature of the past . |
| 15 | The deficit in Australia was down by almost a half following a reduction in claims costs and New Zealand maintained its excellent 1992 performance to produce an underwriting profit for the quarter . |
| 16 | A pond that is iced over for just a few days will come to no harm , but in a prolonged freeze , the fish may suffer unless you take precautions . |
| 17 | It was over for quite a few of our friends and neighbours . |
| 18 | Yet , when the time comes for a hermit crab to change shell , having outgrown its present one , it can accomplish the change over in just a few seconds . |
| 19 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 20 | When the linker is on the needlebed , this needle is facing the machine needles and it casts off in exactly the same way as you do with the latch tool . |
| 21 | Human awareness of this truth , he may have concluded , was passed on with just the same loose and haunting persistence as the rhythms and phrases of English poetry , surviving from Anglo-Saxon times to Middle English and ‘ The Man in the Moon ’ , and on again to Shakespeare and Milton and Yeats and nursery-rhyme , without intention as without a break . |
| 22 | The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers . |
| 23 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
| 24 | Restating it , so , the max value of that product is N minus one Now , if you wan na know what the maximum value and negat if the score 's are negatively correlated rather than positive , you end up with exactly the same expression , N minus one , but lo and behold it 's negative . |
| 25 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 26 | And that was very quick as well , the way you worked it out , it 's not gon na take you long to pile up with quite a few marks on that . |
| 27 | a government but all insurance companies really come up with much the same thing so I mean that 's , that 's purely for your technical information rather than anything else . |
| 28 | I end up in exactly the same spot as if I had first walked four paces due east ( which is one sort of displacement , an easterly sort ) and then three paces due north ( which is another sort of displacement , a northerly sort ) . |
| 29 | like a G they will join up in exactly the same way next time he does it , even to the same letter |
| 30 | The two entries are adjacent to each other in the body of the encyclopedia under S. Obviously , this makes sense in that different readers approaching the synoptic outline from different disciplinary perspectives will both end up in roughly the same place , but it is slightly disturbing to find that while there is a main entry for " Applied linguistics " ( which cross-refers readers to " style " ) , there is no matching entry for " Literature and linguistics " to help the reader coming from a purely literary discipline . |