Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And though the place was leavened by servicemen on short courses and all the liveliness of that well-reported wartime gaiety , it was still dominated by public-school men with backgrounds of privilege and wealth quite foreign to Burton and smacking too sharply of the oppressor , with accents of command and futures of rule . |
| 32 | Paul had been quite categorical about Mark and Babur both being mad keen for Disneyland . |
| 33 | It 's quite good on D'Urbino and Speckle particularly ; if you were ever thinking of going back to that monograph . ’ |
| 34 | Rain thought this unusually malicious for Wainfleet and wondered what could possibly be behind it . |
| 35 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 36 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 37 | The trip was a great success , the subsequent Travels in the West exhibition proving very popular in Nanjing and giving him his first taste of newspaper and television attention . |
| 38 | These methods of securing freedom of speech may have been effective , but they are happily unusual in England and constituted in our opinion a deplorable outrage of public order . |
| 39 | His deputy , Robert Forgan , had satisfactory talks with Neil Francis Hawkins about the amalgamation of the New Party with the British Fascists , but the grand council of the British Fascists voted against a merger by one vote in May 1932 after its founder Rotha Lintorn Orman , who was very suspicious of Mosley and regarded him as a near communist , vigorously opposed the change . |
| 40 | This practice was very widespread in Kursk as opposed to the Smolensk guberniia . |
| 41 | It was also a pleasant parish , and the vicar 's wife was very kind to Anna and shielded her from exploitation . |
| 42 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 43 | Compagnie Generale des Eaux SA said on Friday that its wholly-owned General Cable Ltd unit has acquired South Yorkshire Cablevision Ltd from Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's Pactel Cable UK Ltd for an undisclosed sum : South Yorkshire Cablevision holds cable TV franchises in Doncaster and Rotherham , passing 192,000 homes and General Cable already has 100,000 cable TV and telephone subscribers in a number of franchises in Britain ; it is very active in Bradford and plans to start work by the end of the year linking Sheffield subscribers . |