Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been better to handle the sale more discreetly through dealer Angela Nevill , but either way they could never fetch the prices Bond paid for them ’ . |
| 2 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 3 | There was a story about an oil tanker that had veered off course and steamed right through Heaven Sound . |
| 4 | Because i that she can keep right through adult life , ca n't she her |
| 5 | The companies that have used computer data bases most successfully for competitor intelligence have kept the data bases small and simple . |
| 6 | Despite having a virtual monopoly of business from its " host " purchaser , the acute unit felt unable to compete successfully for GP referrals with providers on the periphery of the district because of their old buildings and facilities . |
| 7 | An appeal went out locally for building rubble and the volunteers started their task two days prior to Christmas . |
| 8 | If you have a skill — typing or knowledge of motor mechanics , for instance — try advertising locally for weekend work . |
| 9 | Peter has been with BP for over 20 years , the last 5½ at Sullom Voe , latterly as production superintendent at the terminal . |
| 10 | The thin towers are n't covered with silver , they 're made of metal : they were rockets , once , presumably for emergency launching of satellites — perhaps even for defence . |
| 11 | Navy ( presumably for repair work ) ; 130 tons of bolts ; 100 tons of nails ; and 1,127 tons of sundry items of which there are very many on a vessel . |
| 12 | Presumably for tax reasons , most refused to list their incomes and the magazine compiled its list with educated guesses , as Forbes and Fortune do with their much longer , global rich-lists . |
| 13 | Elizabeth : fearing worst for compensation claims |
| 14 | Unigate fears worst for doorstep pinta |
| 15 | This initially meant that the bed-wetter would be made to sleep in the guard-room , where during the night he would be wakened hourly for toilet purposes . |
| 16 | The change of chip is largely a political move , since the CPU is used mostly for housekeeping matters on an Auspex server , the main work is carried out through a series of custom and ASIC chips handling Ethernet , File and Storage processing . |
| 17 | Back in the city , Sam and Graeme had owned a prop hire business , lending out country antiques , backgrounds and surfaces to photographers and stylists , mostly for cookery pictures . |
| 18 | John is an ex-international steeplechaser turned entrepreneurial agent , and he and Kim McDonald both do a fine job , mostly for distance runners , in finding all-important overseas competition for British athletes . |
| 19 | By and large , information stored in files or computers is used mostly for packaging proposals and rarely for learning or initiating and evaluating alternative courses of action . |
| 20 | And that 's mostly for generator sets and pumping station equipment . |
| 21 | MathSoft currently offers around 20 titles , mostly for Windows users . |
| 22 | He said 56 people had treatment at the hospital , mostly for shrapnel wounds . |
| 23 | In 1953 the first ‘ short course of two weeks , designed mostly for airline flight safety officers rather than professional investigators , took place and this was particularly well received . |
| 24 | A Mechanics Institute , mostly for adult education was provided in 1835 , and — as public grants from London became available — alongside it grew the Banbury School of Science and Art . |
| 25 | They are ‘ read-only ’ because they are commonly produced commercially for database users , many of which are libraries . |
| 26 | EVERYTHING was going so swimmingly for Johnny Bryan . |
| 27 | It is enough for her to know that things are going badly for Mrs Thatcher and the Tory party ; the details of the Westland affair do not engage her interest . |
| 28 | Although higher taxes will dampen consumer spending , they should also help to reduce the long-term interest rates which matter most for business investment and home buying . |
| 29 | The A fifty nine has a number of constraints upon it , including best and most versatile agricultural land , its its difficulty of assimilating a new settlement , but as I say most importantly for highway reasons . |
| 30 | The sound world ( dare I say ‘ the acoustic sound world ’ ? ) is somewhere between Elton John and the Graingere two-piano Porgy and Bess Fantasy , and there are echoes throughout ( I wonder , indeed , if John Mc Laughlin knows John Foulds 's April-England ? ) . |