Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany thereby formally abandoned all claim to some 102,000 sq km ( the swathe of territory east of the Oder-Neisse , from eastern Pomerania southwards via eastern Brandenburg to Lower Silesia , plus the southern part of East Prussia ) . |
| 2 | At pains to point out that ‘ O ’ Level Eng Lit. was the sole exam he had ever failed , Fordham 's continuing interest in these bizarre tutorials — in the face of ribald comment both from his colleagues and mine — was but one of the many facts which confirmed a certain singularity amongst cricketers . |
| 3 | Dickson duly complied with their wishes with an appalling 1–4 record on the first day . |
| 4 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , as McGill ( 1984 , p. 25 ) notes , by the early 1980s MINIS-type arrangements were being seen in the UK public sector as something of a ‘ management panacea ’ , with similar developments occurring beyond Whitehall within , for example , water authorities and local government . |
| 6 | Wigan and Huddersfield should be officially crowned champions of the First and Third divisions respectively , with Leigh and Sheffield effectively clinching promotion to the First . |
| 7 | The second part of Wade 's work was repairing Edinburgh Castle and Fort William , at the western end of the Great Glen which runs diagonally from Inverness right across Scotland and forms a natural barrier separating the northern third of the country from the rest . |
| 8 | Puzzled as to why the DEA and CIA would choose to do this through a front operation in Nicosia rather than through official channels , Coleman duly reported all this activity to Control , but the response was so muted he could only conclude that the DIA knew about it already . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , thank you , we shall look forward to that , ’ said Sarah politely . |
| 10 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 11 | ‘ This is all I get for loving you so much ! ’ cried Bathsheba bitterly . |
| 12 | 4 Phrases and words In Rex Stewart etc. v Parker [ 1988 ] IRLR 483 the court was asked to consider a non-solicitation clause which related to any person " … who to your knowledge is or has been during the period of your employment a customer of the company … |
| 13 | Melanie nervously clattered the animals back into the box . |
| 14 | John Gummer right yeah . |
| 15 | ‘ Siege engines ? ’ repeated Isabel slowly , sinking back on to the chair as understanding flooded her . |
| 16 | Unaware that she was holding her breath , Isabel slowly slid her arms around his waist . |
| 17 | But now , here was Beryl vigorously maintaining that her father had ‘ worked it all out — planned it move by move ’ . |
| 18 | The direction in which the discussion of literature in the Introduction to the Man of Law 's Tale points , however , is towards a comparison of Chaucer 's writing with that of his contemporary John Gower rather than towards the survey of literary genres detached from the accidental circumstances of the identity of authors of specific examples of those genres that we find in fragment VII . |
| 19 | There was also concern about the environmental damage that had been suffered as a result of decisions about economic development taken in Moscow rather than in the republics themselves . |
| 20 | We we heard just now from the the County Council , that they have looked at Hambleton 's district wide local plan , looked at the constraints in that back to Hambleton effectively as housing requirement . |
| 21 | Over the years , the traffic swelled to such an extent that La Chapelle eventually expanded to form four separate stations : La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Chapelle-Charbons , La Chapelle-Triage , and La Chapelle-Annexe . |
| 22 | Newman slowly put down the receiver . |
| 23 | ‘ I was thinking about ‘ Composed at — Castle ’ , ’ said Jim weakly . |
| 24 | Widnes bitterly complained about the unfairness of the situation saying — quite rightly — that if incidents like that are to be pulled out you would need 26 cameras — for every player . |
| 25 | ‘ He would , ’ thought Melanie bitterly . |
| 26 | At the Jennifer Flay gallery , Ann Veronica Janssens discreetly applies elementary geometrical principles to glass panels , mirrors and metal fittings in order to modify our perception of our surroundings . |
| 27 | ‘ Some men are weak , ’ said Bill Clough sagely . |
| 28 | ‘ It means a soul , ’ said Gurder wearily . |
| 29 | You should have seen Captain Trentham 's face when ‘ e found out that I had chosen a spell in the Fusiliers rather than going back to gaol . ’ |
| 30 | On this and every morning Aunt Tossie greeted Nicandra most agreeably . |