Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be stressed that the Belgian products are complementary rather that competitive with our own production . |
| 2 | Eventually some 8 × 106 ha will be planted to constitute the ‘ Green Great Wall ’ . |
| 3 | So each one of these is one engine . |
| 4 | So each one of those is going to have a a name of its own |
| 5 | He is also told to , ‘ never cease your labour , your care and diligence , until you have done all that lieth in you , according to your bounden duty , to bring all such as are or shall be committed to your charge , unto … knowledge of God ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 'm all that good as a beacon , sir . |
| 7 | SUMMERCHILD : Well , I 'm not sure that I am all that happy about it … |
| 8 | In fact , it 's probably not worth being all that scientific about it . |
| 9 | The French troops were hidden by the folds of ground and by the woods and high crops , but the smoke was evidence enough that thousands of men had closed on Frasnes in the night to support the battalion of French skirmishers who had been baulked the previous evening . |
| 10 | Compliments always caught Miss Gilberd on the hop , she was so little used to them . |
| 11 | Mathesius ( quoted in Firbas , 1974 : 17 ) compares English and Czech in this respect and concludes that in English , the grammatical principle ( i.e. syntax ) plays the leading role in the hierarchy of word order principles and that ‘ English differs from Czech in being so little susceptible to the requirements of FSP as to frequently disregard them altogether ’ . |
| 12 | Up until that time entries would be relatively small , possibly less that ten at most shows . |
| 13 | The thermodynamic constraints against their transverse diffusion across the bilayer are less that those of membrane proteins . |
| 14 | There are no blackheads and the symptoms include a flush , mainly on cheeks , nose and forehead with perhaps some swelling of the nose . |
| 15 | Science teaching is also undermanned in less overt ways , such as teaching by unqualified teachers and those whose knowledge is out of date , adding perhaps another 10000 to this figure . |
| 16 | The government redefined the categories of unemployed in 1982 and 1983 , for example , excluding men over 60 , counting only those claiming benefits instead of those registered as unemployed ( this change excluded mainly married women seeking work , but not entitled to benefit ) , and various training and employment schemes for young people kept perhaps another 600,000 off the unemployment list . |
| 17 | I think there 's only another one of these down there . |
| 18 | And then we get through customs , and the two of us are having a laugh because we 're safely back , and suddenly this drunk in a chauffeur 's cap throws himself at us and nearly puts out my eye with a cardboard sign and treads on my foot into the bargain . |
| 19 | They bring together some twenty to twenty-five people , mostly from Third World countries , but including some aid administrators from Britain and other developed countries , and they stay together for between four and six weeks , working together in a wide range of different topics and with various objectives . |
| 20 | Campbell was aware of the disadvantages of having so few Sinhalese in the police , especially in higher posts . |
| 21 | He always felt slightly guilty that there were so few suitable for this role in the parish . |
| 22 | Closing a raft of useless federal establishments will get rid of only some 80,000 of them . |
| 23 | A home is the single largest capital investment to make in our entire life , and yet only some ten to fifteen percent of purchasers will commission a detailed report . |
| 24 | The LFS also allows agency workers to be distinguished , but these make up only some 50,000 of the l.5m temporary workers in Britain . |
| 25 | People who work through and are paid by agencies numbered only some 50,000 in 1984 and made up only just over three per cent of the total temporary labour force . |
| 26 | Presently , only some 2,500 of Pegasus ' 80,000-odd users are running their accounts on Unix of any kind . |
| 27 | Only some 50 of the thousands of species in the Amazon as a whole are commercially exploited , though up to 400 may have some value . |
| 28 | But what does all this mean for ordinary users ? |
| 29 | And what does all this mean to me ? |
| 30 | Linstead Market celebrates the very place where White was born , and brings a delightful lyric about buying and selling that is only half comprehensible to a non-West-Indian ear . |