Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | brown tiles and it was brown tiles all in that room and of course we could n't , we had started a business and all the money had gone into the business and we could n't afford to , to start carpeting , it was impossible , so , but that room really looked superb I think , I had huge rugs , you know , one in front of the fireplace and another one this end and the other end in colour , in colours , and there really , it really looked nice and the floor was polished up to the nines , you know , er right through here all polished all the same colour |
| 2 | Only eat meat which has been cooked thoroughly right through i.e. brown with no trace of blood or pinkness . |
| 3 | Did you sleep right through then last night ? |
| 4 | And he will again introduce youngsters on the periphery of recognition — a policy which he has adopted successfully for almost two seasons . |
| 5 | Until its eventual collapse under the weight of accumulated economic pressures , the system operated successfully for almost 20 years . |
| 6 | The total number of books published in the UK has been rising relentlessly for over 10 years , but 1993 should herald a change in strategy from major publishers : Random House , HarperCollins and Reed Consumer Books are among companies to have announced that they are substantially reducing the number of titles that they will be publishing in 1993 . |
| 7 | In the South-West , 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000 , mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry . |
| 8 | At any one time there are a significant number of women who are particularly distressed and disturbed serving prison sentences , mostly for very trivial offences . |
| 9 | Britain , after 1945 , still had worldwide markets , but these were mostly for relatively old technology products such as steam engines and steel rails . |
| 10 | Eventually through reasonably correct bid evaluation , we began to learn how to cost out inferior bids , when we had a very very low bid in we could see that certain things had been skimped , certain things might even have been missed out completely , and we then began to cost the effect of that on the organization . |
| 11 | The period covered by the narrative in Acts begins shortly after the Crucifixion and ends somewhere between A.D. 64 and 67 . |
| 12 | The old man 's name was Brenner and he chose a Dunkel and a Korn — a very dark beer plus a chaser of the local heart-stopper that tasted somewhere between very young whisky and vodka . |
| 13 | It could mean bringing somewhere between about ten and fifteen million pounds into Shropshire over that six years from Europe , into , into Shropshire , not in the whole of March 's area , but into Shropshire , during that period , to help projects in the rural west of the county . |
| 14 | Flat , green and verdant on one side , the other rises skyward for nearly three hundred metres like a vast cathedral spire . |
| 15 | In private most managers worry intensely about how corrosive the change will be . |
| 16 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 17 | " They may have been all right for very old children . " |
| 18 | Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life . |
| 19 | We can only say a little about how that story ended . |
| 20 | Although the evidence of seditious words can tell us something about the range of motives which led people to Jacobitism , it can tell us little about how prevalent such sympathies were . |
| 21 | As we have seen , for example , the raw fact that an admission to care takes place as a result of a care order made by the court , and thus appears in official statistics as further evidence of compulsion , may tell us little about how this action is experienced either by the child or by his or her family . |
| 22 | And it will continue to campaign vigorously for more flexible working , better maternity rights and anything else that will ease the working mother 's load . |
| 23 | The canteens will start serving meals by Easter , catering eventually for over 800 people . |
| 24 | There was nothing dramatic to mark its going — just a stream of air bubbles that became gradually smaller and ceased altogether after about twenty seconds . |
| 25 | The effect of the GC step in the context of the GGGCCC motif is apparently about as large as that of AA/TT , i.e. enough to cancel the macroscopic curvature of helically phased A-tracts . |
| 26 | The effect of the GC step in the context of GGGCCC motif is apparently about as large as that of AA/TT , i.e. it seems to be enough to cancel the macroscopic curvature of helically phased A-tracts . |
| 27 | Divorce is common enough for even young children to be aware of it and to fear you may split up . |
| 28 | Claimed battery life is 4 hours , or enough for just 60 sheets of paper . |
| 29 | Even a picture measuring 30 × 25cm ( 12 × 10in ) , which is large enough to display quite a few flowers and takes a fair amount of skill , would only need a backing 30cm ( 12in ) square , so ½m ( ½yd ) of material could be enough for about eight pictures , depending on the width of the material . |
| 30 | Now of course there are other er forms of erm er o o of fuel er there 's coal erm and we have large stocks of coal in this country er enough for about two hundred er years er again you ask the question well why therefore is the , is the government coal cl cl closing down er a large part of the coal industry ? |