Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a principle that the PA has pursued consistently in time of crisis : successfully for books when sanctions were imposed on Rhodesia and South Africa , less so during the war with Argentina . |
| 2 | Furthermore , both I and my right hon. and learned Friend have made it clear that we want more education provided locally for adults than is currently available . |
| 3 | Add the courgettes , cover , and cook slowly for 4–5min until all the vegetables are soft . |
| 4 | ‘ for the purpose of prostitution ’ Means that loitering or soliciting must be for the purpose of offering her body etc. for reward as outlined at point 2 ante . |
| 5 | His way was blocked by the Ambassador and Culliman , talking politely about gardens as they came through' the french windows . |
| 6 | Oh I was on about sewing cos I said I 'd let them , you know , they were all doing a bit of sewing the other weekend , they all had a go like erm ooh , you know , I was saying he that Scott can cook and that , you know , we 've had a note he 's having one on , supposed to be all all of them to be independent , you know ? |
| 7 | Souness often spouts on about deals when nothing is happening . |
| 8 | He said the English were fine ones to bang on about cruelty when they sent little boys off to boarding school when they were eight . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's the good of going on about contraception when you ca n't even get your own head together . ’ |
| 10 | However , this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment . |
| 11 | You 've no call to go whingeing on about morals when you 're making up to Adam in this very office . |
| 12 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 13 | But nothing went right for Leeds as they pounded down on Liverpool 's goal . |
| 14 | It all came right for David when he legered a sardine on size 8 barbless trebles to a 20 lb wire trace and 12 lb line . |
| 15 | HIV may be passed on during sex when blood , semen ( spunk or cum ) or vaginal fluids from an infected person enter the bloodstream of her or his partner . |
| 16 | Most corporate acquisitions achieve little for society as whole and tend to worsen economic ills in the older cities . |
| 17 | The great strength of Antologia di Belle Arti , and indeed of its editor , is the ability to combine the zeal of the archiver with the eye of the curator , to ferret as effectively for documents as for objects , preferably objets de luxe , forgotten in palaces or bewildered in the marketplace . |
| 18 | A Department of Agriculture might function more effectively for agriculture if it did not take on , unnecessarily and confusingly , a role in food marketing . |
| 19 | However , the strategy also has a longer term aim to upgrade the infrastructure and skills of the region to enable it to compete effectively for investment when congestion costs in the ‘ grand poles ’ become insupportable . |
| 20 | In terms of war , AIDS looks more like one of those medieval struggles that dragged on for decades than a relatively swift modern conflict . |
| 21 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 22 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 23 | The worst damage to hulls etc. had been reported on arrival in the area after last night 's operation , and the troop 's attached REME Forward Repair Team had worked on for hours after most others had taken to their sleeping bags . |
| 24 | This immediately limited the number of towns that could be planned , for most English towns have developed from villages , and their sites had been partly built on for centuries before they developed into towns . |
| 25 | It can be walked on for access if required . |
| 26 | It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth … |
| 27 | If all the subsequent television and newspaper interviews are to be believed , the boy Lawson told Mrs Thatcher that he jolly well was n't going to stay on as Chancellor unless she fired that rotter Walters as her ‘ adviser ’ . |
| 28 | There are all kinds of reasons for Africa 's food problems — rich and precious land being used for cash crops instead of to grow food for local people ; a much smaller proportion of land fertile enough for cultivation than is the case in Asia or Europe ; farmers being paid such pathetic prices for food crops that they turn to coffee or tobacco in order to survive . |
| 29 | Could n't find a size large enough for Hurley so we got him a nightshirt instead . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't believe , ’ she replied again , evasively , ‘ that I thought much about happiness until I met my husband . ’ |