Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he has his leg in plaster … and is under strict orders from wife Angela to stay calm when Christie bids for glory again today in the 200 metres . |
| 2 | There is also the possibility that alter a time a support bureaucracy generates its own needs for support quite independently of the front-line units . |
| 3 | The tsar had been enthusiastic about change so long as he remained in the orbit of Elena Pavlovna , but in St Petersburg his convictions or his courage deserted him . |
| 4 | Harold Watkinson had not survived as Secretary of State for Defence long enough to see his counter-reformation completed , but he did have the satisfaction of knowing that , had it not been for his efforts to swing the pendulum of British Defence policy back into the centre of the spectrum of war , Britain 's disengagement from empire would not have been so successful . |
| 5 | Detailed cross-tabulations of our main survey results ( not included in Appendix I ) showed that people who said they worried about money fairly often or very often on average had a markedly higher credit commitment than people who said they did not worry about money . |
| 6 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 7 | As writer back then , I used my IBM PC for word processing , the same as I do now . |
| 8 | He stands up and taps on the table for silence , intending to announce this new discovery , in the hope that it will cause yet more laughter , and increase his reputation for honesty still further . |
| 9 | And yet , encouragingly ( for fiction as well as for herself ) , she proved able to rise again : she became the established mistress of a cavalry officer , and by the time she died was the legal wife of an admiral . |
| 10 | It had nothing to do with his empathy , for shield as deep as she would , until the whole World became flatly three-dimensional , the conviction was still there . |
| 11 | A Toleration Bill went through Parliament fairly quickly , being backed by William and Mary , and agreed to as a necessary concession to the Nonconformists . |
| 12 | This was expected to provide for a President and National Assembly , to be elected for a five-year term under a multiparty system , with the President eligible for re-election once only . |
| 13 | She straightened the long limbs and pressed the strands of black cotton she had used for hair more firmly into the scalp . |
| 14 | This allowed it to veer off course quite readily unless the steering or correction stroke was timed to strike when the kayak was perched on top of the wave . |
| 15 | And yet some philosophers have taken questions like this one about whiteness very seriously . |
| 16 | Undoubtedly performance measurement was being widely used as a tool for measuring value for money not only in Whitehall but also in outside agencies ( such as quangos ) involved in implementing departmental programmes ( Cabinet Office ( MPO ) /Treasury ( FMU ) , 1984a ) . |
| 17 | If that 's so , then Pooh can get true beliefs about honey just as well by observing it indirectly by observing bees as he can by observing it directly . |
| 18 | That such a man should be placed in the role of ruler over God 's chosen people was deemed a curse — an affliction visited by God upon His people , a punishment for transgression both past and present . |
| 19 | Note , too , that if you write ironically you may seem to be satirising the question , or the process of analytical writing about literature more generally . |
| 20 | What we 've got to get over now is the need for action straight away , not next year or the year after . |
| 21 | If so , estimate how long this will take , call the candidates for interview that much earlier than you would otherwise have done , and let them know in the letter that they are to be given a tour first . |
| 22 | That this House believes that the death penalty for murder no longer accords with the needs or the true interests of a civilised society , and calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to introduce forthwith legislation for its abolition or for its suspension for an experimental period . |
| 23 | First , the process , as outlined in the diagram , is a scheme for research as well as for teaching conventionally considered : each is seen as a concomitant of the other , and it is this which provides for the professional development of the teacher . |
| 24 | Nature , he thought , had intended him for scholarship yet here he was at forty-six , still a small-town tradesman . |
| 25 | Repeat for each stitch to be embroidered and after last stitch of row , bring needle up through stitch below instead of stitch to left ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 26 | Moreover , the fact that characters may be successfully interpreted by means of these linguistic approaches presents a strong case for characterisation once again being regarded as a legitimate object of the critic 's attention . |
| 27 | However , such a policy could not be seen in isolation as it had implications for practice more generally , including procedures and training . |
| 28 | Paul ‘ popped round ’ for tea more frequently than was decent for a visiting lecturer , and he seemed to get on very well with everyone . |
| 29 | This was a period of steady economic growth with demand for labour almost everywhere in the country . |
| 30 | ‘ Talk about gossip around here … you could n't get the news faster with a satellite dish . |