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 | Supply agreements with key customers which are due for renewal shortly after the intended completion date . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Such was the man who departed post-haste for Verdun shortly after midnight on the 24th/25th of February . |
| 5 | There was the usual extra food for Christmas and we allowed ourselves three slices of bread each for breakfast instead of two . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is enough light for photosynthesis only in the top 100 m or less ; the region known as the euphotic zone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So you 've got lots of stuff on equations all graduated and work through there some with brackets then with fractions . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We see this from Edmund both as subject and object . |
| 17 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , he was interested in mathematics only as a hobby , and so he did not bother to publish any of his work . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Hawking leaves the impression that he may be interested in God largely as a means of drawing an audience towards scientific ideas . |
| 24 | A 26-YEAR-OLD Keady man walked free from court yesterday after being cleared of fracturing a man 's skull in a pub brawl . |
| 25 | as his delegate , they are not exercisable in relation either to an authorised person who is a member of a self-regulating organisation or to certain appointed representatives : section 64(4) . |
| 26 | Shops were empty from panic-buying ahead of Czechoslovakia 's ‘ big bang ’ — which is turning out to be more like a big pop . |
| 27 | Dunning and his co-workers are undoubtedly justified in maintaining that football hooliganism was prevalent in society long before the post-war decline of community life ; and that it was common for young males to attend football matches without adult supervision before the 1960s . |
| 28 | The Brownings have no room in the Casa Guidi should they ever be willing to shelter him and in any case intend to follow the Storys for another winter in Rome ( entailing another in Florence alone for me ) . |
| 29 | The inhabitants were culturally indistinguishable from Serbs elsewhere in the Balkans . |
| 30 | Then we went to a lake with wooded and marshy shores where we saw several ‘ new ’ birds : a crane flew past , looking like a grey heron except that it carried its neck outstretched in flight instead of ‘ folded back ’ . |