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

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1 During several visits to the vessel , information was gleaned from USN crew members that all Spitfires on board the first sailing had taken-off successfully for Malta which was , at the time , being systematically bombed by a ruthless enemy .
2 There is also very little likelihood that you will achieve true friendships through this type of club as they seem to cater mostly for people who want to make one-night stands .
3 The impact of the new legislation will be felt most for people who have complex needs identified as a result of a comprehensive assessment .
4 John 's slight built made him a tantalising opponent , but he had scorching pace and neat control , while also possessing the ability to cut inside and shoot powerfully for goal himself , so that he could always be relied upon to contribute several useful goals each season .
5 You should indicate the aspects of your background which the interviewer is looking for without rambling on about things which are irrelevant .
6 I 'm not on about houses I 'm on about main buildings like St Paul 's an' all that
7 Spot on about Whitlow he has n't missed much at all has he ?
8 So if we start going on about transport they 're going to rub that into us that we 've got owt .
9 Luckily for Chris his A Level assessor will come TO the school to look at his work , rather than expecting his project to arrive in the post .
10 Luckily for Ruggles it was filed well before the US Patent Office began to ask inventors to pay renewal fees .
11 That was a great great left footed shot and could have got a nasty deflection , it 's luckily for Shrewsbury it went straight through everybody and er over for a goal kick .
12 Indeed , in America they are arguing furiously about research which suggests that homosexuality is a genetic condition .
13 On off days he could sound tired , and sometimes excitement carried him away to an excess of length .
14 It has all the right ingredients but somewhere during preparation something went wrong producing an unsatisfying dish with a bitter aftertaste .
15 And it can all fall through because theirs is falling through or they ca n't get out when you want and that can go on for Can it not ?
16 and they 're willing to take you on for x you know erm it just , a lot of it is word of mouth .
17 Most people — though not all — continue to vote tribally for objectives which , after nearly 25 years of conflict , are as far apart as ever .
18 They seem to have moved firstly to the coastal places of the west , and then inland along the river valleys — natural enough for groups who rowed across the North Sea and the Channel in open shallow-draught boats .
19 However , he added , for self-assessment to work , the tax has to be simple enough for taxpayers themselves to be able to fill in their own tax returns .
20 And when he wanted to get some when he 's old enough for money There must be as well as around some fifty now .
21 To fulfil their obligations to children and young people , it is not enough for individuals who are concerned with protecting children to do their own jobs properly .
22 This extreme ergonomics stance serves as an antidote to the equally extreme engineering approach in which systems are regarded basically as hardware which for reasons of economic or technological limitations have to depend occasionally on some human performance .
23 Though he does not actually tell us much about Eddie he tells us that Eddie could be involved in something bloody .
24 There 's still much about meningitis which remains a mystery — why , for instance , cases of the disease come not in isolation but in localised clusters .
25 Not , the constructivist argues , by the enrichment of perceptual input ( in any case the evidence tells us that this is already rich ) : only through action itself .
26 I was sure that nearly everyone was interested in how the universe operates , but most people can not follow mathematical equations — I do n't care much for equations myself .
27 I have never cared much for men who are all man : they are the ones who smugly believe they must be irresistible to me , and take elaborately cautious steps to protect their priceless male virginity from what they seem to imagine will be my marauding hands .
28 Does their theology then really speak about a real God , or merely about man himself ?
29 These occasions are only for humorists who enjoy the captains ' and coaches ' mumbled no-comments , and pusillanimous platitudes from grown men .
30 These occasions are only for humorists who enjoy the captains ' and coaches ' mumbled no-comments , and pusillanimous platitudes from grown men .
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