Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also remarked that Belgion was something of a mystery man , about whom very little seemed to be known — even whence he acquired his undoubtedly vast store of knowledge . |
| 2 | So far as enterprises are concerned , their accounts are now in such a state of confusion that most of them no longer care about increases in their costs . |
| 3 | The leadership of the organization within the Labour Party remained with Cripps , Strauss and Mellor , all of them still fully committed to the Unity Manifesto . |
| 4 | There are a number of good books on sampling , some of them now particularly aimed at the social scientist , but even the best of books can only deal with problems in fairly general terms . |
| 5 | Whether pink or stripy , or black and hairy , they are almost all first generation wild fruits from endangered habitats in the Third World , though some of them so now languish in the hot-houses of New Zealand or the Channel Islands . |
| 6 | The motivation factor for a further 21 per cent of the interviewees was the heroin use of the majority of their friends-sometimes loosely described as ‘ peer-group pressure ’ . |
| 7 | It makes a valid connection in a collection the order of which almost certainly varied during the process of composition and which was never completed . |
| 8 | I 've always tended to think of you as rather lacking in conscience . ’ |
| 9 | The faces of the twins , softer editions of her own , turned towards her questioningly then broke into shy smiles . |
| 10 | Appropriately , the Wilcox narrative seems to be the book of his most widely read by the kind of people who have just put in a tough day at the office or have two weeks on the beach before clocking back on . |
| 11 | Some of us never quite come to terms with the fact that penises come in all shapes and sizes . |
| 12 | Colleagues , I gave you twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve reasons for you not only to support by raising your hands , but by actively supporting your fellow members in their fight to retain the Wages Councils and to guard and protect their wages . |
| 13 | We shall not be far wrong then if we say that in 1700 about one half of the arable land was already enclosed in the kind of fields that we see today , and that about one half still lay in open field , a landscape which survives today only in patches of a few hundred acres at Braunton ( north Devon ) , at Laxton ( Nottinghamshire ) and at Hazey and Epworth in the Isle of Axholme . |
| 14 | With one round still to play in the Interpolis tournament in Tilburg , Holland , he is already sure of first place . |
| 15 | With her back still turned to Marianne , Shae frowned , puzzled . |
| 16 | With her back still turned to him , she grimaced wryly at her own fancifulness . |
| 17 | This is a lovely climb in itself , up what quite soon turns from a valley into a defile . |
| 18 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 19 | Virtually all the accounts we have suggest that the public schools , in spite of Arnold 's efforts , continued to exist in something not far removed from a Hobbesian state of nature — or rather , just far enough removed to allow for the development of tribal ritual . |
| 20 | Looking back at the variety of studies conducted on plants in the little field at Henfaes , I feel little temptation to explain the behaviour of organisms within it as perfectly fitted for adaptive optima in an ideally evolved ecosystem . |
| 21 | Without foreign or extraneous admixture ; free from anything not properly pertaining to it ; homogeneous , unalloyed . |
| 22 | I get it form most of his kind , who remember that I was once a private investigator , and so to them not far removed for law . |
| 23 | The plans which they have at present are , without doubt , exceedingly handsome ; but , to speak plainly , they seem to me infinitely more adapted for palaces than public offices . |
| 24 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 25 | To that end Stockman , the director of the OMB and the principal architect of Reagan 's first budget , set about reducing the role of Congress to something not far removed from that of the House of Commons . |
| 26 | This species may also be under-represented in trap assemblages if the traps are set even short distances from thick vegetation , for it so rarely ventures into the open . |
| 27 | The razzmatazz of a US election can be an education for anyone not fully versed in politics the American way , but just how does the rather involved system work ? |
| 28 | ‘ We worried about her but Elizabeth wrote back that she was more worried about us back here going into London with IRA bombs going off . ’ |
| 29 | You can understand the need for a programme , constructed in advance and regarded by you as legally binding on your attention . |
| 30 | Items abandoned and not owned by anyone no longer belong to another and so can not be stolen . |