Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 3 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 4 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 5 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 6 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 7 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 8 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 9 | As you can see there , the model is breaking down during the latter period of our sample . |
| 10 | But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis . |
| 11 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
| 12 | Booze companies fear that tobacco 's closest relation may be in for the same treatment : there have been rumours that a directive is being prepared . |
| 13 | but still have to four phone in for the same purpose , are you with me ? |
| 14 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 15 | A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year . |
| 16 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 17 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 18 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 19 | Although your skin might feel a bit taut after washing , the skin oils rebound in about the same time , too . |
| 20 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 21 | Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’ |
| 22 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 23 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 24 | Yoma 's former husband Ibrahim al Ibrahim , appointed by Menem as Chief of Customs at Buenos Aires international airport , along with a former government official , Mario Caserta , had also been accused of drug laundering in the same report . |
| 25 | Earlier this year , a Texas court ordered Coopers , along with a former Miniscribe chairman and the company 's investment bank , to pay almost $600m in compensation and punitive damages to Miniscribe 's bondholders ( see ACCOUNTANCY , March , p 16 ) . |
| 26 | Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone falls in love with the Masai , you know , ’ she says as we , the elderly general and the attentive subaltern , along with a few askaris , attend the old lady at her departure . |
| 28 | Brian Hillier is jointly charged along with the former manager and former club accountant . |
| 29 | And the 105bhp XR3i is rated four groups higher than the 103bhp Citroen ZX Furio , while the 137 bhp Renault Clio 16v is rated in group 11 along with the more pedestrian 93bhp Renault 19 RT turbo diesel saloon . |
| 30 | Turning inbound the VOR indicator needle will roll in from the same side as you . |