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

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1 The report , originally due for publication later in the spring , criticises the Department of Transport for not fully applying lessons from previous , less serious collisions on the river .
2 but you , if you 're due for time off in lieu , could n't you take , could n't you say that erm use that for the averages ?
3 Supply agreements with key customers which are due for renewal shortly after the intended completion date .
4 On the face of it , this seems good , but it must be remembered that each tonne used for fuel instead of as a fertilizer means a yield loss of some of 50 kg in grain production , for example .
5 Such was the man who departed post-haste for Verdun shortly after midnight on the 24th/25th of February .
6 There was the usual extra food for Christmas and we allowed ourselves three slices of bread each for breakfast instead of two .
7 Evidence that David Kirby was keen to show that L&SE was no longer a region-based organisation is to be found in the launch of Awayday , entitling an adult , if accompanied by at least one child , to purchase up to four additional tickets for adults or children at a flat fare of £1 each for use anywhere within the sector area .
8 of state therefore explain why in England it 's prof possible to get a straight answer from the Secretary of State with the figures of the S S A for the last five years , for this year and for next year and it 's not possible to get that for Wales either from the Home Secretary or from the honourable gentl right honourable gentleman .
9 There is enough light for photosynthesis only in the top 100 m or less ; the region known as the euphotic zone .
10 I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home .
11 Very few of those who write the terrible tabloids , let alone those who read them , are likely to have heard of these ‘ internationally famous ’ sportsmen , so I doubt if they 'd make half of £1,500 even for such tales as Flanker Star Ate My Goolie During Scrum , by England 's Ugliest Prop ; or Sexy Secrets in the Showers , by Welsh Tea Lady .
12 Very few of those who write the terrible tabloids , let alone those who read them , are likely to have heard of these ‘ internationally famous ’ sportsmen , so I doubt if they 'd make half of £1,500 even for such tales as Flanker Star Ate My Goolie During Scrum , by England 's Ugliest Prop ; or Sexy Secrets in the Showers , by Welsh Tea Lady .
13 It is paid free of tax up to a maximum of £8000 over the full period of the allowance ( see Appendix 1 ) .
14 If you have any queries regarding this PEP offer simply call the PEP Helpline free of charge on during office hours .
15 Cover for deterioration of goods in deep freeze due to breakdown is now included free of charge up to a limit of £500 .
16 What a prank to capture some upstart tech gang member , or some undercity riff-raff , and throw him into the heat sink itself to slide or tumble or simply fall free , down , down , tens of kilometres down into the inferno .
17 Turkish forces mounted a large-scale security operation in the south-eastern Cudi mountain region from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4 , after 500 PKK guerrillas attacked a border post on Aug. 30 near Semdinli close to the Turkish borders with Iran and Iraq .
18 With diatonic triads , in root position and first and second inversions , we have a choice of twenty-one different chords ( Example 31 ) : If to these triads we add the possible inversions of added sixth and seventh chords , we have a choice of seventy different chords ( not seventy-seven , as one would suppose , for some are duplicates ) : Add to this the fact that the notes in each chord can be varied in register ( that chords can be ‘ close ’ or ‘ open ’ ) , and we have a very wide range of possibilities — and this with chords only in the key of C major .
19 So you 've got lots of stuff on equations all graduated and work through there some with brackets then with fractions .
20 Through the open door he could see the computer personnel ; some with hands still over their ears , others looking around at the walls and ceiling .
21 Streamline Graded Readers are based on the same clear and well-controlled syllabus which has made the Streamline coursebooks popular with teachers all over the world .
22 We see this from Edmund both as subject and object .
23 Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 .
24 Distinguished from Skylark chiefly by longer crest being always erect and conspicuous , and buff instead of white outer feathers in shorter tail ; also in flight by orange-buff patch on underwing .
25 Much larger than the other black-necked geese , and distinguished from Barnacle especially by longer neck , generally brownish plumage and much smaller extent of white on face .
26 The few in existence up to 1706 had their administrative authority vested , as in the continuing case of the public parish roads , in the justices of the peace at quarter sessions , but from that date , beginning with acts relating to two stretches of the road to Holyhead , in Bedfordshire and in Worcestershire , independent trustees took over the administration of the tolls and the responsibility for road maintenance .
27 The next mill downstream is Cheshers Mill , later referred to as The Old Mill , one of the few in Blockley never to be used for silk .
28 Unfortunately , he was interested in mathematics only as a hobby , and so he did not bother to publish any of his work .
29 ( 1 ) A licensing board may , on an application in that behalf made to the board by any person interested in premises about to be constructed or in course of construction for use as licensed premises , make a provisional grant of a licence in respect of those premises if the board is satisfied ( a ) that the premises will be fit and convenient for their purpose , and that , if the premises had been completed in accordance with the plan thereof lodged with the board in pursuance of section 10 of this Act , the board would on application have granted such a licence in respect thereof .
30 Those who are interested in doubt only from a practical standpoint may want to pass from this definition of doubt as doublemindedness directly to an examination of the categories of doubt in part two .
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