Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched , listened , learned and assessed , speaking only when spoken to in general — whilst all the while making her plans and looking to the future … |
| 2 | The first S in SSC comes from the fact that its magnets rely on coils of superconducting wire , which work only when chilled to about -269C , 4C above absolute zero . |
| 3 | If you 're a single parent and sick of being written about as a problem , rather than written for as a reader , One Parent Plus ( Jane Ward , Optima , £4.99 ) should be a refreshing change . |
| 4 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 5 | It is also a straightforward matter to create new words — and so to frame new concepts — by the use of prefixes , suffixes , etc , a quality sanctioned rather than frowned upon by the Sanskrit grammarians . |
| 6 | Governors were almost always sent out from England rather than chosen from among the men on the spot . |
| 7 | The first point was conceded by Angela Rumbold ( 1989 ) when she emphasised that performance indicators must be interpreted in context rather than looked at in isolation . |
| 8 | The ‘ organisation man ’ picture is largely that referred to by the novelists we reviewed in Chapter 1 . |
| 9 | but try and keep , you know try and get some good feedback this is something to go away and look at in conjunction with if you wan na view the video again then say . |
| 10 | Mr Purves said he intends retiring next year , but might stay longer if asked to by the board . |
| 11 | The two sets of decisions can be understood more easily if thought of in terms of , firstly , assessing need and , secondly , setting priorities . |
| 12 | Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast . |
| 13 | His absence was more than compensated for by her mother Vanne , whom she obviously adores . |
| 14 | While they might find ‘ delinquent ’ behaviour , in its many manifestations , irritating , as the role of juvenile labour in the production process was always either peripheral or auxiliary , the ‘ delinquency ’ was more than compensated for by the advantages of using young workers who were cheap , malleable , non-unionized , easy to recruit and just as easy to dismiss . |
| 15 | Some tone did go , but this was more than compensated for by the Power Tool 's onboard EQ . |
| 16 | Fortunes have been mixed in Europe , with falling demand from the northern markets — particularly the UK and Germany — being more than compensated for by those of southern Europe . |
| 17 | In more remote rural areas , such as northern England , parts of the Grampians , west Wales , and Northern Ireland , net migration loss was more than compensated for by high fertility ( type 4 ) . |
| 18 | For those on the margins or in casual labour the extra mouths to feed in infancy was more than compensated for by the potentially increased sources of income and domestic help in childhood and adolescence . |
| 19 | Every Sunday morning when his wife woke him he soundly ( if silently ) cursed his adopted religion ; but the hell of getting up when all sensible creatures were lost in lovely sleep , was more than compensated for by the feeling of well-being after Mass , which made him beam and glow like an advertisement for salts — ‘ It 's Inner Cleanliness that counts ! ’ — ; and look forward with relish to eggs and bacon with a righteous sense of having earned them , and the lazy hours to follow . |
| 20 | While some forms of employment in the area have declined ( for example , in the railway workshops ) , they have been more than compensated for by the high technology boom and its associated distribution and service industries . |
| 21 | A market downturn in rig moves was more than compensated for by a significant increase in supporting offshore construction projects . |
| 22 | An outcome such as 4 raises A's utility to and B's to Intuitively , what is happening is that A 's loss of utility from the reduction of her own income is being more than compensated for by the knowledge that B 's income is also falling . |
| 23 | An excellent seam of Dutchmen was worked , " these were all Dutch naval pilots and navigators , not particularly experienced but the lack of hours was more than compensated for by their almost embarrassing zest for flying . |
| 24 | These setbacks however were more than compensated for by the successes . |
| 25 | Advertising revenue fell by less than 1 p.c. to £88.2m , and the 23 p.c. fall in pre-tax profits to £8.62m was more than accounted for by a £1.6m rise in its Channel 4 subscription and by £2.36m of exceptional staff cutting costs . |
| 26 | Ignoring transactions costs this represents a profit of 6.5 per cent ( which in all probability would have been more than accounted for by brokerage etc . ) . |
| 27 | Both Mr Schmidt and his predecessor , Willy Brandt , more than got by as government leaders without a majority in the upper house . |
| 28 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 29 | he went on , ‘ the one that they carried home and looked after like a baby for days until , in the end , it died . |
| 30 | Apparently they had no friends , with the possible exception of Roger — and she had seen him stiffen slightly when referred to as ‘ old Rodge ’ . |