Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , this relatively peaceful country , moving out of the stagnation of the 1930s to the growing affluence of post-1945 , was seldom contented or placid for long throughout these forty-four years . |
| 2 | The economies total output , its Gross Domestic Product , expanded for much of the eighties and peaked in the middle of nineteen ninety . |
| 3 | But it is impossible for anyone to feel depressed for long at Liphook . |
| 4 | Say I know say I know the order was high for today on drums . |
| 5 | Marius was dismissive about both of them and thought that if they could n't manage two weeks of bedmaking and personal organisation then they should have stayed at home . |
| 6 | Large and unnecessary extra costs are imposed if all waste is treated as hazardous ; yet risks to the public result from allowing hazardous materials to be moved and disposed of cheaply as if it were ‘ merely ’ waste . |
| 7 | Over 200 companies have signed the ICC 's Business Charter for Sustainable Development , which urges industry to commit itself to the development of products which require the minimum amount of energy and natural resources to produce , and which can be recycled or disposed of safely after use . |
| 8 | Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves . |
| 9 | What 's more the food is delicious — very different from elsewhere in the Med . |
| 10 | Mark Benson won the toss for Kent and , as is customary these days , put Hampshire in But 11 o'clock on a July morning is very different from 10.30am in September and , while it was cloudy , there was nothing like the assistance the bowlers will expect to find at the start of the NatWest Trophy final later in the year . |
| 11 | According to a correspondent of The Graphic , these 19th-century visitors must have been little different from today's-instead of gasping at the 70-kilometre vista spread before them , their first reaction on arrival at the top was to write commemorative postcards . |
| 12 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 13 | It 's funny in here with everything all different . |
| 14 | All calls are free from anywhere in the UK |
| 15 | All calls are free from anywhere in the UK . |
| 16 | All calls are free from anywhere in the UK ; a list of needle exchanges is available upon request . |
| 17 | Since then , whatever the frame , I 've rarely had them off — to the extent that I began to hide , defiantly Su Pollard-like , behind them , never fighting being four-eyed except occasionally in the odd incongruous evening dress . |
| 18 | He also , Busacher observed , seemed to be playing a curious double game with both Ingrid and the little Hoflin — being charming to both of them and he was seen lunching with them on alternate days . |
| 19 | You 'll be different on there to what we are . |
| 20 | A rich and powerful odour , not unpleasant outside here in the yard where the air was already scented with manure and compost , with the melons ripening in the wire garde-manger , with whatever was rotting in the dustbins . |
| 21 | It is explained by the combination of the first two conditions , and since it is a performative purporting to affect the rights or duties of another , it has to be public at least in intention . |
| 22 | The ventral arm plates are pentagonal with a rounded distal edge and contiguous at least on proximal arm segments . |
| 23 | The dorsal arm plates are fan shaped , contiguous at least on proximal segments . |
| 24 | The dorsal arm plates are broader than long , contiguous at least on proximal arm segments , with a slightly convex and , in some specimens , carinate distal edge . |
| 25 | The first ventral arm plate is small and round , the subsequent plates roughly pentagonal with a convex distal edge which may be produced in the midline ; they are contiguous at least on the proximal arm segments . |
| 26 | The voyage from Van Diemen 's Land to Sydney on the Mary Ann , with his wife , children , servants , and the remains of his baggage proved to be a ‘ tedious and uncomfortable ’ one ; different by far from Gould 's first , joyous , passage to New South Wales six months earlier . |
| 27 | The British establishment has become rather touchy of late about arms dealers , embarrassed by a series of press revelations about shady deals being done in London . |
| 28 | I should have known that no amount of understanding can carry any individual for long against the swirling crowds of social existence , and that soon after rejoining them I too should be stampeding with them . |
| 29 | ‘ Someone not so far from here might just decide to take all those opportunities you wax so lyrical about away from you ! ’ |
| 30 | It does n't seem to be getting very warm in here to me . |