Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately after the fall of the eastern bloc regimes , even the top nomenklatura professed that they had been closet democrats all along , pushing relentlessly for change from within the structures of power . |
| 2 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 3 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 4 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 5 | Generally the commonest marsh tern and the only water bird that has whole head and body black or greyish black , relieved only by white of under tail coverts ; bill black , legs reddish . |
| 6 | Now we 've got , this is a roll shot , , and we want the yellow to go beyond and the black to stop just in front of of the hoop . |
| 7 | ‘ We ( the Design Department ) got asked by the Producer of Blue Peter to come up with a full-size Dalek that children could build easily at home for about 10/6d . |
| 8 | There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four . |
| 9 | For hypoxia and tachycardia respectively , the criteria were summated SaO 2 readings 10% or more below baseline for at least one minute and summated pulse rate readings of 40 beats per minute ( bpm ) or more above baseline for at least five minutes . |
| 10 | Everyone involved seems to be scrupulously in tune with with the piece 's pent-up emotions so that the small details consistently add to the whole rather than deflect from it self-consciously . |
| 11 | One section , eastwards from Ratho for about a mile , has been improved and is well-used by walkers and cyclists — it shows the potential the whole route could have if upgraded . |
| 12 | There may be few today who are quite so confident about the precision with which children can be shaped , yet with respect to at least one of the above vocations , that of thief , many current theories of delinquency still concur that the roots of the condition are to be sought in the child 's early years . |
| 13 | Matthew Arnold refers to Horace 's " allusive and compressed manner " ( In his essay " On translating Homer " ; actually with reference to in Odes , iv , ) Gladstone ( 1894 : v ) mentions " the necessity of compression " as the particular object of his own translations — which are in places as uncompressed and haplessly spongy as anyone else 's . |
| 14 | It was written in sub Gone with the Wind style , was longer than the American Civil War and took almost as long again to identify what sort of food was actually on offer from amongst the jokey prose . |