Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aung San 's demand for eleven seats out of fifteen was not conceded and at the end of the month the Governor appointed a Council of ten members , of whom only two were British . |
| 2 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 3 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 4 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 5 | Also certain wholesale transactions are excluded ( as they are deemed for professional investors rather than personal investors ) and are regulated by the Bank of England . |
| 6 | For professional negligence generally , see Professional Negligence by Jackson and Powell ( Sweet and Maxwell , London 1987 ) , and for some unsuccessful attempts to sue experts , see Belvedere Motors v King [ 1981 ] EGD 850 and Wallshire Ltd v Aarons [ 1989 ] 1 EGLR 147 ( surveyors ) and Whiteoak v Walker ( 1988 ) 4 BCC 122 ( auditor ) . |
| 7 | Not for professional historians so much as for people who really did want to have a version of England 's past which makes some sense sort of sense now . |
| 8 | Here the Committee has preferred to rely on speculation about hypothetical problems rather than on the unchallenged evidence that employed solicitors have conducted cases for years in the lower courts without complaint . |
| 9 | Hair was permed with Bain de Terre Acid Wave for Bleached Hair then left to dry naturally . |
| 10 | Yeah , I mean ten oranges for fifty P yesterday . |
| 11 | Lot number sixty four Lot number sixty four there 's another one showing for you , fifty for this one , at fifty pounds thank you , fifty is offered at the back at fifty pounds I 've got I can and will sell for fifty pounds only , any further bids at fifty five sixty going on sir ? |
| 12 | The UFC 's recently-announced grant allocations for 1992–93 hand out rewards and penalties to different institutions , and the allocations for research are markedly different from those for teaching . |
| 13 | Since the equilibrium price is not observed , tests for sticky prices thus require a model of the equilibrium price . |
| 14 | Sathasivam Krishna Kumar ( " Kittu " ) , 31 , regarded as the LTTE number two and a member of its central committee , who had first arrived in the United Kingdom in October 1989 and applied unsuccessfully for political asylum there in August 1990 after the breakdown of peace talks with the Sri Lankan government , was told in early August 1991 that he had to leave the UK by Aug. 7 or face deportation , for having abused his refugee status by collecting funds and trying to procure arms . |
| 15 | The union has managed to keep the strike going even though Siberian miners are pressing for political changes only , while miners in the Ukraine , where living conditions are particularly wretched , also want large wage rises . |
| 16 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 17 | an aversion to maintaining newspapers for political reasons only . |
| 18 | Many teachers belonging to the teachers ' union ANDES became actively involved in the struggle for political justice as well as for their own economic interests . |
| 19 | Was it just so that they could , for political means again to get peasant support ? |
| 20 | A further 60 seats would be filled by a second vote in which electors would express their preference for political parties rather than individual candidates , with the seats being distributed in accordance with the proportion of the vote achieved by each party . |
| 21 | In the light of the OAS decision , Fujimori stated on Aug. 30 that there was no remaining excuse for political parties not to participate in the elections . |
| 22 | For the press , the loosening of the relationship with politicians produced a dilemma : it aspired to greatness as the fourth estate and as an institution for political enlightenment yet it had to pursue the mass audience in order to survive commercially . |
| 23 | The research aims to show how the requirements of mass social and economic mobilisation associated with the Five Year Plan and the epoch of socialist construction made the need for political control more urgent . |
| 24 | It was a matter of real concern that the divisional court , exercising the power of judicial review , was increasingly … being used for political purposes superficially dressed up as points of law . |
| 25 | Having correctly spaced the members of the party at the other end of the rope , any spare rope should be coiled neatly around the leader 's shoulders and tied off with an overhand knot , ready for possible use later in the day . |
| 26 | These hoops can be jumped through quickly if all parties cooperate , but the point is that some potential candidates for the 1990 Edinburgh course will already be looking for possible courses early in 1989 . |
| 27 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 28 | The main contractor has to plan for subcontracted work just as seriously as for his or her own work . |
| 29 | Some of it was on about that man there , face got her to stay the night then he was gon na watch it on telly in the er lounge . |
| 30 | He met poets like Ungharetti and Montale , and had an audience with Pope Pius XII — the Pontiff spoke to him on the theme of poetry and religion , although Eliot knew quite enough about that subject already . |