Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Have you known Marianne for long ? ’
2 The idea is to give a taste of life outside for mental patients who may have been inside institutions for up to twenty years .
3 Often the pilot is lost and has been worrying for the past half an hour about where he is .
4 After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival .
5 An occasional table and two tablecloths for just £44.95
6 Certainly there is much of interest here as the exhibition runs the whole gamut with further wide-ranging , bird 's eye views through more down to earth transcriptions to a couple of urban scenes .
7 Given the prevailing views about where responsibility for curricula rested , these findings are not perhaps totally unpredictable .
8 It read in part : ‘ We all need a free exchange of views about how Socialism is to be continued in this country . ’
9 As before , these manifestos propound a variety of views about how to answer a single question .
10 Since nearly all High Court judges are appointed when they are between about 45 and 57 it is likely that they will have shed such political enthusiasms as they may have had when young and have formed firm views about how the country should be run .
11 The advisory teacher and Betty disagreed in their views about how a task might be presented .
12 I am also visiting the various sites over coming weeks and look forward to hearing your views about how we can work together to secure the best outcome for AEA and its employees .
13 A positive view of the potential of the scheme in this is related to positive views about virtually all of the other issues raised in the questionnaire and vice versa .
14 Moreover , it was a scarcely a trifle or a thing easy to get , for Mulgrave 's predecessor in office , Lord Chatham , had a list of 165 candidates with vacancies for only sixteen or seventeen a year .
15 Phil Richardson , who died at King 's Norton , Birmingham on April 18 , aged 64 , was a stalwart of Moseley Ashfield for more than 25 years after the Second World War .
16 At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) .
17 Thus , a story which for one reason had been meaningful to her as a young child provided guidance for her at adolescence for quite a different reason .
18 There are many good rod bags on the market now offering practical advantages and protection for today 's expensive rods .
19 Corollary Inc will announce the availability of CNS-1600 , a built-in surge protection feature on its Connection Station communication servers : CNS-1600 is an Ethernet device , which enables users to hot key between multiple simultaneous sessions with the same or different host ; it provides protection for up to 16 serial lines ; out this week .
20 It provides protection for up to 16 serial lines .
21 For Fairbairns this would be payment for hard work ; for Donnison this would be protection for both the woman carer and her dependants — in other words , maintenance of , and provision for , family relationships .
22 ‘ The removal of Wages Council protection for under 21s through the Wages Act 1986 , combined with the [ removal of ] right to income support for most 16- to 17-year-olds , has contributed to the decline of young workers ’ wages compared to those of adult workers . ’
23 Simple photographs , perceived to have little artistic quality are afforded copyright protection for only twenty-five years after death whereas editorial photographs and ‘ artistic ’ photographs are given periods of protection of fifty years and seventy years after death , respectively .
24 And while Britain accepted the rise of Ibn Saud in the new country of Saudi Arabia , she also kept faith with the tiny emirates along the western flank of Arabia from Kuwait to Oman , over which she had exercised protection for more than a hundred years .
25 Scientists monitoring the level of solar radiation have warned people not to sunbathe without protection for more than forty minutes .
26 The union suggests that crofters get an automatic entitlement for up to ten cows and that sheep quota might be converted to cattle quota within the Highlands and Islands area .
27 He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment .
28 Germany 's six biggest economic institutes rebuked the Bundesbank for not cutting interest rates fast enough .
29 ‘ I 'd be surprised if we were back in before the end of this Parliament , ’ he said three weeks ago , almost emphatically enough for the majority of Tory MPs who want to steer clear of the Bundesbank for as long as possible .
30 The second thing we 're doing is we 've we are going to attract a lot of money from what we call a specific grant for mentally ill .
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