Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Glasgow Volunteers , disbanded after the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and then called back to the colours again , included the Fifth or Grocer 's Battalion , the Canal Volunteers , and the Royal Glasgow Volunteer Horse of 60 men and , presumably , 60 horses . |
| 2 | That 's been on a real high and then gone down to a low to nothing . |
| 3 | The complex procedures were executed without a hitch : artillery positions were abandoned by the British and smoothly taken over by French units ; as British battalions moved out at night , their French replacements moved in — and all the while without any sign that the Germans recognized what they were about . |
| 4 | Horoscopes were also extremely popular and frequently drawn up for Protestant clergy and laity ; even Queen Elizabeth , the head of the English church , consulted her astrologer before deciding on a date for her coronation . |
| 5 | Therefore in the USA the methods of collective bargaining associated with the heyday of competitive capitalism were outmoded and eventually destroyed along with the breaking by employers of union control of the labour process . |
| 6 | You could be right , for many people have drifted from one job to another and finally ended up in public relations . |
| 7 | Portholes were few and usually hatched over with leering daemon masks . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that regular maintenance was a statutory requirement and despite some successful legal actions to enforce the statutory provisions , regular dredging and attention to leaks were perfunctory or never carried out at all by canal companies owned by the railways . |
| 9 | I learned so much and soon caught up with the fleet ’ . |
| 10 | I tell you I was flabbergasted and right terrified out of my wits . |
| 11 | Iraq 's nuclear plans seemed to go into abeyance while it was reactorless and still bogged down in its costly war against Iran . |
| 12 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 13 | From my point of view , if someone was totally pissed and just got off with you and really embarrassed about it and thought , you know , oh my God how could I go for her I think that 's , do you think that 's worse than them saying , than it being a bit of a joke ? |
| 14 | With the bishop of Winchester he presented Kilwardby with his pallium in May 1273 and immediately set out for Burgundy to meet Edward I on his return from crusade . |
| 15 | The snag was , everything had seemed perfectly fine and reasonable written down in black and white — but the book had omitted to mention that on snow the skis took on a life all of their own . |
| 16 | Carey was often discouraged and frustrated but stubbornly pressed on with his translation work , realising its vital importance in the foundation of any missionary venture . |
| 17 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 18 | Habermas 's theory involves a reflexive moment that was present but unsatisfactorily worked out in the earlier versions of critical theory . |
| 19 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 20 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 21 | It is vital that this point is understood by all parties concerned and clearly set out in the terms of engagement letter . |
| 22 | The excess of Government expenditure in that year over the yield of taxation was forecast to be £1 billion and actually turned out to be just over £1and1/2 ; billion . |
| 23 | By 2025 the population of India will have doubled to more than 1.4 billion and almost caught up with China . |
| 24 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 25 | Undecided and still bent over towards her he became aware of the patter of running feet , approaching fast . |
| 26 | The rough had ended the hopes of many an illustrious name : defending champion Sandy Lyle , Tom Watson , who , like Ballesteros had complained about the narrow fairways and deep dune grass fringing them , and Craig Stadler , who shot an 82 and then pulled out of the tournament with a sprained wrist . |
| 27 | As the countries of the world , irrespective of bloc , appear to become more and more bound up with one another through the extension of transnational practices , some of which are directly identifiable as practices of global capitalism and some of which not , the fact of the global system becomes more and more obvious to ever more people , though the nature of the global system might still appear extremely difficult to grasp . |
| 28 | But normally the information on the recording forms is checked and corrected first and then entered on to computer after the excavation has been completed . |
| 29 | With reference to the thought that this button might be the last relic surviving from this unit , I have in my collection the silver shoulder belt plate of Joseph Bennett ( of Chaxhill House , Westbury-on-Severn ) hall marked 1803/04 and probably handed on from his brother Daniel . |
| 30 | The apartment maintained by Ladram Avionics on Park Avenue was small but comfortably fitted out in contemporary style . |