Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other fishing stations of JTR 's time on the west coast suffered the collapse of the herring industry earlier and have kept alive mostly through tourism ( though Stornoway still tenuously has oil and fishing links ) . |
| 2 | This was the first fall since 1973 and was due predominantly to reductions in the numbers of remand prisoners , due to the success of the probation service 's bail information schemes , and sentenced young offenders , partly due to the stricter criteria for custodial sentences for young people required by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act , and partly to the drawing up and implementation of ‘ action plans ’ for community plans by the probation service . |
| 3 | Pledges to check expenditure were not kept ; indeed , it continued to rise , as did the district rate , a fact that was conveniently blamed on the unfortunate legacy of labour 's investment programme , but was due rather to the desire of the Alliance to extend municipal enterprise and trading , particularly in tram-ways and electricity . |
| 4 | When two-year-old Nicola saw the bricks , she glanced briefly at her mother , then threw each on in turn onto the floor . |
| 5 | And Mike McClennan 's men have been installed as 7-2 second favourites behind Wigan , who are 4-7 on for a fourth successive title triumph . |
| 6 | As they broke out of the covert on to the open parkland the bright sun made them squint . |
| 7 | Flipping on to her back , she stared at the dark ceiling , listening to the faint night-time sounds from the creek , the far-off slap of water against the bows of the fishing-boats moored below . |
| 8 | Do you come alive slowly in the mornings or do you leap out of bed searching for a pencil to capture your best thoughts ? |
| 9 | Like the hon. Gentleman , I regret the job losses at Clydesdale , which are due fundamentally to overcapacity in seamless tubes . |
| 10 | The problem is in fact that 's exa in fact I did that right at the start , right ? |
| 11 | screw that right through , up the top |
| 12 | This is of course why we , we are proposing the trial in which would er give us an end performance grass cutting contract but we do n't want to do that right across the county because of the projected cost , until we know whether it would work . |
| 13 | And we want to spread that right across rural England and Wales . ’ |
| 14 | Erm so I think we 've got ta look at that right across the board though , we 've got ta know that in actual fact we 're covering it temporarily , erm or are n't we covering it temporarily . |
| 15 | People were saying the union can do something we can fight back and we need to translate that right across the country . |
| 16 | why ? er , if plain English that right in it ? |
| 17 | Coupled with the Phantom 's one-piece maple neck , with the same radius as the Teardrop and a low action with wide string spacing , the feel is comfortable and friendly right up the neck , and barre chords above the twelfth fret are no trouble at all . |
| 18 | ‘ So you remained friendly right through the war , did you ? ’ |
| 19 | The basal conglomerate in England is full of boulders of a distinctive purple , " liver-coloured " and white quartzites that have been matched with the Gres de May and the Gres Armoricain right across the other side of the English Channel in Brittany ( though I regard with some scepticism the notion that the boulders here travelled so far ) . |
| 20 | And I think that somewhere along the line , erm , even if it 's only a moderate sum , we should make definite erm , approaches to start the ball rolling in this preventative effect , because I think we 're going , every , every budget head in the whole of the county or anythi or anybody else who 's got a budget , is going to pay the penalty , so I would like that to see if there 's any movement , any way we can address that particular problem , er , during our , our discussions . |
| 21 | But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear . |
| 22 | No it 's not bad in in my my sort of retail career and that somewhere between thirty and thirty five |
| 23 | She did not doubt but that somewhere amongst the records and corporate memory of the Society would be someone who knew Hereward Marr very well indeed . |
| 24 | that somewhere in the world it is coming to pass : |
| 25 | And you use that somewhere in the and you tie that to one car and then join that up . |
| 26 | In the woods between Lāmri and U hu where the path drops steeply down , the stream had frozen solid right across the path and we had to pick our way for half a mile , across the ice . |
| 27 | This finding suggests , that high infant mortality of first order births in populations characterized by early marriage may be attributable mostly to the very young age of mothers at first birth . |
| 28 | Ramsden says the two disciplines ought to complement each other , but that most on the classical advertising side are unwilling to compromise their careful concepts with phone numbers or mailshot back-ups . |
| 29 | In some families parents react negatively if children use Creole when talking to them : You talk like that most to your friends but . |
| 30 | Not forgetting in that most of the mines then , at that particular time , were nearly all privately owned . |