Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had long marked her down as a less than sociable woman who appeared to nurse some secret grievance . |
| 2 | If you kind of drop down behind the blue if you use the blue first and the bat 's up there you got ta go sort of near to it to get behind you 're going to rush down to your hoop . |
| 3 | The two latter poems describe states of physical illness , but I think it is not unfair to quote them along with the former because all three only express in an overt form what is often expressed throughout her work : the connection between purity and superiority , the connection between purity and death . |
| 4 | Bowe said : ‘ I thought he was crazy not to go down in the 10th when I was beating up on him . |
| 5 | I fish such a bait on a 14 hook , or go down to a 16 if the bream are being finicky . |
| 6 | First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) , cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds . |
| 7 | We try and slip him in on the sly when we think we 've got them hooked . |
| 8 | Zurich is an essential part of one of the regions inviting exploration , north Switzerland , which tourists are inclined to pass through with no more than an approving nod , rather than lingering to find out . |
| 9 | Right through from the seventeenth until the early twentieth century those who reached the age of sixty years remained a small but quite steady 5–7 per cent of the English population . |
| 10 | The amount of cortex given over to the central as opposed to the peripheral visual field can differ , as can the size of receptive fields of cells within the area . |
| 11 | Alan got off to a less than |
| 12 | And within was empty darkness , fenced off by no more than a ridge of soil . |
| 13 | In truth , her performance in winning at Edgbaston probably told us far more about how she is likely to make out when she tees up as a professional than could ever have been gauged from an isolated week among those playing for pay . |
| 14 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |
| 15 | France had also opposed the imposition of tighter controls on the ownership of guns , on the grounds that the right to bear arms had been incorporated into the Constitution drawn up after the 1789 revolution-although it had also demanded the right to suspend the travel rights enshrined in the Schengen agreement in cases of emergency ( for earlier disagreements see p. 36154 ) . |
| 16 | Cork , under new manager Damian Richardson , scrambled a 1-0 win over Monaghan on the opening day of the championship and followed that up with a less than impressive 0-0 draw at Galway on Wednesday . |
| 17 | The reason they have this versatility is that they are able to join up with no fewer than four other atoms at a time , to form chains or networks . |
| 18 | The UN felt swamped by the quality and quantity of NATO staff work — NATO planners turned up with no fewer than five bound volumes — in the initial stages of the joint operation that was set up to keep the peace in Bosnia should the Bosnian Serbs join the Croats and Muslims in accepting the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 19 | vol 96. p 41 8 ) has now turned up in the normal as well as the tumour tissues of a bladder cancer patient . |
| 20 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 21 | He digs his bed up in the stable if he 's too warm and digs great holes in his field . |
| 22 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 23 | Thanks to the several hundred Young Guardian readers who wrote their accounts of Growing Up In the Eighties for the Outloud column . |
| 24 | She counted up to a hundred as she skipped . |
| 25 | INTER-CITY rail fares for journeys over 150 miles are to be slashed by up to a third if booked a week ahead . |
| 26 | Along with the mingling of the genres go the other stylistic features of a rather modish postmodernism : pastiche ; montage ; paraphrase ; parody ; allusion ; quotation ; often adding up to no more than a cultivated divertissement . |
| 27 | Thus the soignee appearance of Cresson and other French women politicians blazes a torch and tells others that , while everyone is mortal and while women may have many cards stacked against them , it is possible to face up to the worst as well as the best . |
| 28 | A birdie two at the 32nd gave Rafferty the lead and he went two up at the 34th where Lyle , disturbed mid-swing by the clicking of a camera , pulled his tee shot into the trees on the left . |
| 29 | The colours were very subdued , very , very sombre , erm dove greys , muted blues , nothing bright at all , now this was n't because of dyes , although later on in the eighteen-sixties when chemical dyes really took off , the colours were correspondingly garish and bright . |
| 30 | Members agree that proposal continue on in the ideal although it was commendable to set high standards . |