Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eventually Gurder 's voice said : ‘ All right . |
| 32 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 33 | Little Colin Patterson returned to the Jubilee Maternity Hospital with his mum Karen to celebrate his first birthday and to hand over a cheque for £675 to the neo natal unit , where he weighed in at only 2lb 14ozs . |
| 34 | By the time darkness finally stopped my search , I had recovered forty-seven assorted coins , mostly Cayman , five motel keys and one earring . |
| 35 | It 's mostly Harlow actually when you look through it . |
| 36 | The general approach which they make is extremely varied , from being quite clandestine to being rather pushy. 1 think the more senior one becomes , the more serious any headhunting approach becomes . |
| 37 | These books are timeless , not part of the changing whirl of food fashion or trend , rather part of a backbone of information and knowledge without which all cookery books are quite irrelevant . |
| 38 | Rose ( 1868 ) , do not obviously suggest serious historical study , but are rather part of a long series of more popular works on Mary , in which Jean Plaidy and Madeleine Bingham are among the most recent exponents ; and there is a certain charm about the publication , in 1793 , of a work by one J. F. Gaum , Marie Stuart und Marie Antoinette in der Underwelt . |
| 39 | The first is that they have become much more reliant upon state benefits : first supplementary benefit and latterly income support ( which replaced supplementary benefit in 1988 ) . |
| 40 | If she wanted , she could do a little daytime television work in one of the London studios . |
| 41 | Atkinson , cheered by 'keeper Nigel Spink agreeing a new two-year extension to his contract , has called up fit-again striker Cyrille Regis , insisting : ‘ He 's not there to be an ornament . ’ |
| 42 | — FIT-AGAIN striker Andrew Fletcher is set to be recalled to Scarborough 's side for the long trip to Maidstone on Saturday . |
| 43 | Quite a lot of things , right Melanie |
| 44 | Eventually Gouzenko ran up debts of $153,000 which were partly settled by the sale of his book and film rights . |
| 45 | That 's a worst case scenario . |
| 46 | The letters appointing him spoke of the ‘ dissensions recently arisen ’ in the duchy of Aquitaine where he was to act ‘ to pacify the said land ’ ( circa stabilimentum terre predicte ) , thereby incurring additional expenses ( which were to be recom-pensed ) at the Paris parlement and in the duchy itself . |
| 47 | I am of course not concerned here with the reliability of the figures themselves but with their use , or rather non-use , by Polybius . |
| 48 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 49 | Ah it 's dried off mostly mum . |
| 50 | We are getting a bit fed-up of people saying how badly opponents play against us . |
| 51 | Carting is very popular , as is agility , working trials and latterly Schutzhund trials . |
| 52 | Presumably attempts will be made to agree expenditure ceilings post-1992 to avoid the outbreak , at a later date , of inter-institutional frictions . |
| 53 | The water wheel and a fountain operate from a hoselock 1500 pump purchased fro £48 — from an electrical wholesalers ' — with a home-made prefilter made from two planting baskets and a piece of 1–¼″ plastic pipe ( due to the original foam pre-filter blocking every 8 hours or so ) . |
| 54 | They did kill an estimated 1,500 Japanese for the loss of only 40 of their own men ; a sharp contrast to the 166,500 Allied losses ( mostly prisoners ) in Malaya , Hong Kong , and in the Dutch East Indies , where the Japanese lost only 15,000 men in the campaigns of the 1940–41 winter . |
| 55 | It was recognised , however , that as the crew members became more experienced and gained seniority there was a need for specialised navigational training so that they could replace No. 1 's and eventually Commanders . |
| 56 | Can you walk the right way , no , now do it right Kelly . |
| 57 | Right Kelly tell me what you 've been up |
| 58 | Right Kelly Ann ! |
| 59 | But the wheels of bureaucracy take time to run , and British winter weather is rarely kind to fliers , while seaplanes have the additional disadvantage of needing several ground-crew and suitable tides as well as suffering all the constraints of more conventional land aircraft . |
| 60 | Thereby camp may also , either implicitly or directly , interrogate the norm which , according to Jameson , traditional parody assumes . |