Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By January 1928 the preparatory negotiations were going on between the TUC and the Confederation of Employers Organizations and the Federation of British Industries , the two main employers ' organisations . |
| 32 | They talked about horses and a little about the Norfolk Baileys . |
| 33 | But if it had been Edward IV who wanted the immediate accession of his heir , the events after his death say relatively little about the Woodvilles ' intentions . |
| 34 | But if it had been Edward IV who wanted the immediate accession of his heir , the events after his death say relatively little about the Woodvilles ' intentions . |
| 35 | For example , the TV drama ‘ Thin Air ’ in 1988 brought out some of the unpleasantness about the ‘ wheeler-dealing ’ that has been going on during the Docklands boom years . |
| 36 | If an HIV antibody test is not mentioned in reply to that question , the person whose blood sample is being taken need not refuse consent expressly for an HIV antibody test , but should ask for the purpose of the blood test to be entered in their medical records . |
| 37 | He should be listening to parents in his constituency who have opted overwhelmingly for the CTC , with more than 500 applications for 248 places last year and with 660 applications for next year . |
| 38 | Quinine Trench , Zitney 's wife of twelve years , lay in bed , flicking slowly through a Jackie Collins . |
| 39 | Do you combine it with the weekly ‘ big shop ’ at Sainsbury 's , wait until you fall ill or hang on for the January sales ? |
| 40 | We 'd taken the swiftly accelerating Spirit away from the homespun drag races of Woodward Avenue , hoping Chrysler 's hype on for the R/T was well founded . |
| 41 | Still , I had an overseas news radio set and sometimes at dusk when I turned it on for the BBC overseas news , the light on its dial welcomed me like a beacon from home . |
| 42 | ‘ This will put him spot on for the Arc . |
| 43 | CLIVE BRITTAIN turned User Friendly into a sprinter on Saturday morning to put her spot on for the Arc . |
| 44 | This line can he traced , rather precisely , from New England , through south-west Ireland , via south Pembrokeshire and the Gower Peninsula , under the University College of Swansea , then south of the Kent coalfield to the Boulonnais and on as the Grande Faille din Midi far into the European continent . |
| 45 | Perhaps the same thing happened to him on Weathertop , where he put the Ring on as the Ringwraiths closed in , but the words used there are ‘ temptation ’ and ‘ desire ’ — ‘ his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring . |
| 46 | He learned about world events rather as a Trobriand Islander might — from chance remarks and accidental contacts — and , from the little he had heard , he had not much desire to know more . |
| 47 | Like , right after the Hüskers broke up I had so much I wanted to say musically and doubted that anyone would ever want to hear it . |
| 48 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 49 | The directors Jim Johnston and Sandy Moffat are to stay on after the Deanses agreed that an independent chairman be appointed to the board . |
| 50 | But her third visit came a little after the Cyprus coup , when British Immigration officers started suspecting all Cypriots of being potential immigrants . |
| 51 | The famous letter from the archbishop of Rheims to Baldwin V of Flanders , praising him for his activities in draining and ditching the coastal areas ( presumably after the Dunkirk inundation of 1014–42 had at last subsided ) is explicit evidence of an interest in agricultural expansion . |
| 52 | She saw herself perhaps as an Elizabeth Bowen heroine — for one did not openly identify oneself with Jane Austen 's heroines and To The North was her favourite novel . |
| 53 | They know that the rich did very nicely during the Thatcher years and believe it is they not the poor who should make any sacrifices necessary to get the country out of recession . |
| 54 | That one of Beonna 's moneyers , Wilred , went on to mint coins for Offa , however , may imply a somewhat earlier date for some at least of Offa 's East Anglian coins , and Offa 's position in East Anglia was already secure enough for the East Anglian bishoprics of Dommoc and Elmham to be included in 787 in the new archdiocese of Lichfield ( see below , p. 174 ) . |
| 55 | Goodness knows it is difficult enough for the BBC to carry on , week in , week out , reporting from Bosnia . |
| 56 | Losing the William Webb Ellis Cup was bed enough for the NZRFU on the eve of its 100th birthday . |
| 57 | Or , said someone else , it 's like insisting that the walls of buildings are made thin enough for the FBI to listen through them . |
| 58 | But what was good enough for the Kybergs was hardly likely to be good enough for the Habsburgs , so they built a second wall , only a few yards away . |
| 59 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 60 | But what was good enough for the Kybergs was hardly likely to be good enough for the Habsburgs , so they built a second wall , only a few yards away . |