Example sentences of "a [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline ) . |
| 32 | There is a backwards movement in saying No , which can be a slight withdrawal of head and shoulders ; a more emphatic shake of the head perhaps accompanied by the hand pushing away an undesirable request or person , e.g. Juliet 's rejection of Paris in the Bedroom scene . |
| 33 | So I 'm hoping that this system that I give you will allow you to do that , anybody been a best man at a wedding ? |
| 34 | So that 's another situation and as we 'll talk about and I hinted at yesterday er the dreaded vote of thanks situation and the the er giving of the gold watch and er and the being a best man at a wedding or even a bride or groom at a wedding er again is a is a way of helping this Aldershot method is a way of helping you to get your thoughts together and put them across effectively . |
| 35 | A forth soldier in the car , who was not seriouly injured , managed to raise the alarm . |
| 36 | A fortnightly clinic at Guisborough and a monthly clinic in Brotton is also prescribed . |
| 37 | Milton Keynes Borough Council say they will save £400,000 a year by switching to a fortnightly collection of rubbish . |
| 38 | And we 've tried to get something for everyone , we 've got 2 classical music concerts , for instance , the Johannis Piano Trio , and then a specially sort of brought together rainforest orchestra , where professional musicians all over the county can come together to create a programme . |
| 39 | At a more day to day level we 've helped improve food quality in the Ukraine and have provided advice on improving bread supplies in Moscow . |
| 40 | There you 've got er a line of coal wagons , and so that 's those 'll be coming that is a more sort of general merchandise wagons which would be parked in there , loaded or unloaded , erm er shunted across the lines and er into that goods yard , goods shed for er loading and so on . |
| 41 | Dare I say , as a once member of One Nation , that the world wants to know if Britain dare make Change its Ally ? |
| 42 | Most of the vines have a slightly east to north-facing aspect , although those near Montbré are found on a gentle east-facing ridge . |
| 43 | Could I make a constructive suggestion in this context of board salaries or remunerations or compensation packages or bonuses I 'm saying that in a slightly tongue in cheek way because I believe that the majority of shareholders do n't understand the differences between these concepts , as you gentlemen evidently do . |
| 44 | Water condition : Fairly soft water , with a slightly acid to neutral pH of 6.6–7.0 . |
| 45 | Water condition : Very indifferent to water hardness , but prefers a slightly acid to neutral condition . |
| 46 | Day Four : An early start from Usti with a 5.30am departure for Lovosice where a coach will be awaiting you at 9.00am . |
| 47 | The use of the bare infinitive after have in its " passive experience " sense can therefore be explained by the absence of a before/after relation between the passive experiencing ( denoted by have ) and the event which is experienced ( expressed by the infinitive ) . |
| 48 | Since a condition has a logical priority with respect to what it allows , there is a before/after relation between what know predicates and what the infinitive does , which calls for the use of to . |
| 49 | The notion of absence of a before/after relation between the bare infinitive and the verb to which it is incident can be applied quite readily to its use with auxiliary do , if one takes into account the peculiar nature of auxiliaries . |
| 50 | As for the bare infinitive , its use will be explained in terms of the absence of a before/after sequence between the event denoted by the full verb and that denoted by the infinitive . |
| 51 | ‘ A never-never land of material values expressed in terms of gorgeous living , a plethora of high-powered cars and revolvers ’ , as A. E. Morgan described it in 1939 , ‘ of unbridled desire , of love crudely sentimental or fleshly , of vast possessions , of ruthless acquisition , of reckless violence ’ . |
| 52 | The Class 40 , dressed in a never-never livery of rail blue with all yellow cabs , large BR logo and carrying a might-have-been number 40 445 , was facing south — held stationary by the unblinking red eye of a four-aspect colour light signal , newly erected at the Manchester end of Platform Three . |
| 53 | The fund 's dividends are paid quarterly and the third interim dividend is being held at the previous 1.2p , making a same-again 3.6p for the nine months . |
| 54 | Hoare Govett 's Donald Anderson predicts a same-again profit of £170m and earnings of 37½p . |
| 55 | er , erm , obviously the commission felt it was er , it was funny , unacceptable if you did n't have erm for example objective criteria by which to judge applications to membership , now I can understand this a fairly proposition of fairness , but where does it fit in to article eighty five ? |
| 56 | Yeah , in a fairly sort of that 's a bit of a coercing , is n't it , maybe in to er , dirty tricks department . |
| 57 | Erm er I do n't know , I mean maybe it would be like it would be like you give a fairly sort of neutral statement and you have the adjectives at the end of the scale give indicate the responses like y'know something like how do you feel about homosexuality and you could have sort of y'know erm natural to unnatural or something like that erm |
| 58 | There 's a there 's a perfectly example of marketing . |
| 59 | His idea was to tell his story ‘ in a perfectly matter of fact and sober manner ’ ( Willett 1978 , p. 154 ) . |
| 60 | So a modern humour on the stage might be a really sort of over-the-top virilous feminist . |