Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Well he 's gone on seven days of the week complaining about so and so we 'll just narrow that down to one article about his his complaint that they may just make a little note he 's complained seven times about this !
2 you know it 's either salted popcorn or the sweet popcorn , I could n't eat that amount of salt , it is chock-a-block full up with popcorn
3 Top 40 Hits , for instance , only lists records that entered the US Top 40 up to July 27 , 1991 and thus is well over a year in arrears .
4 There was by now a continual branching off of sub-orders , and more easily acquired food enabled basic structure changes to get under way .
5 One is the river Tay in Scotland : a salmon river , still famous as the ‘ silvery Tay ’ and flowing unpolluted down from Ben Lawers , out of the Grampian Highlands .
6 ‘ had with you ’ This point is proved by the police officer or other witness stating ‘ He held the dart in his hand ’ or ‘ The knuckleduster was visible sticking out of his jacket pocket ’ , etc .
7 One survey of aged inmates of the Newington workhouse in south London showed that a mere sixteen out of 725 had any relatives with even the space to take them in .
8 I 'm going to sit right on this glorious fire and get warm all through to my bones .
9 A sodden pedlar out of Saxburgh brought the news that the mill-race there had broken its banks and the pond lay right across the Norwich road .
10 Sad that his country had fallen from the top of the European industrial league , to joint eighth out of nine , and bitter toward the foolish leaders who had been largely responsible for its decline .
11 All of these are geared towards small groups of adult riders whose ages generally range from those in their early twenties up to fifty , sixty and even beyond .
12 Out of 2,560 freeholders voting in Bedfordshire in 1705 , for example , only 313 ( 12.2 per cent ) split their votes , whilst in 1715 a mere 142 out of 2,529 split them ( 5.6 per cent ) .
13 A stage intermediate between these two ideas was reflected in the Companies Clauses Act 1845 which provided that in the absence of contrary provision in the special statute every shareholder had one vote for every share up to ten , one for every additional five up to a hundred and one for every ten thereafter , thus weighting the voting in favour of the smaller holders .
14 But Lawrence dramatizes something else : if , within the construction of homosexuality as a fear or refusal of otherness , there may be a projection by the male heterosexual on to the homosexual of his fear of the woman as other , there may also be a disavowal of the heterosexual 's fear of the homosexual as the same — that is , a fear of those gender proximities and interconnections , including Lawrence 's opposed energy ‘ flows ’ , whose feared mutual implication compromises not only the ideology of sexual difference , but the cultural formations which it underwrites .
15 Representing AEA , the six — Kevin Shannon , Mark Davies , Keith Jones , Richard Judge , Chris Wheatley and , of course , Chris — finished joint ninth out of a field of 63 team from all sectors of the electricity generating industry .
16 La Gazzetta dello Sport , Italy 's leading sports paper , gave Gascoigne a mere out of 10 for his efforts under a headline loosely translated as : ‘ Gazza-show : Same old tears and same old jokes . ’
17 From the beginning of the period of rapid employment reductions in BR in the early 1960s up to the present , manual employees ' earnings have scarcely reached average levels for industry as a whole .
18 One of our tried and true sources claims Sun Microsystems Inc managed to move 2,000 of those nettlesome 40MHz Viking-based Sparcstation 10 Model 41s out of the door by the end of the year .
19 One approach takes the technical humdrum out of financial modelling ; another lets groups of office workers keep track of all the ‘ who-what-why-and-when ’ changes made to a spreadsheet during its lifetime .
20 There was a bell-pull connected up to a small porter 's lodge inside .
21 By revealing it von Weizsacker hopes to shake the dunderheaded British out of their lethargy .
22 The LSE guitars are designed to be stage-usable straight out of the box , and so feature cutaways and undersaddle pickups as standard .
23 It had become obvious early on to paleontologists that the dinosaurs , living in a moist and warm environment , in a sparsely populated animal kingdom , had succeeded in evolving into the first vegetation-eaters with no competitors .
24 X with a little two up in the air .
25 — none of the action sample clients without support workers possessed all three , and only one-fifth possessed two out of three ;
26 Weak all along in terms of commitment , doubt now shows its colours and acts true to form by refusing to shoulder any responsibility for the unreality it has caused .
27 The Daily Mirror has been right all along in accusing Pakistani cricketers of obtaining extra swing over the years through illegally roughening one side of the ball by scratching it with fingernails or even ripping the red leather surface .
28 Such evidence is now beginning to appear and I believe that my hon. Friends and I will be proved to have been right all along in our predictions of the effect of the student loan scheme .
29 We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking
30 Whether he wants to get F M onto the agenda and firm that up as a date for a meeting .
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