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

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1 Pledges to check expenditure were not kept ; indeed , it continued to rise , as did the district rate , a fact that was conveniently blamed on the unfortunate legacy of labour 's investment programme , but was due rather to the desire of the Alliance to extend municipal enterprise and trading , particularly in tram-ways and electricity .
2 Do you come alive slowly in the mornings or do you leap out of bed searching for a pencil to capture your best thoughts ?
3 The problem is in fact that 's exa in fact I did that right at the start , right ?
4 People were saying the union can do something we can fight back and we need to translate that right across the country .
5 Erm so I think we 've got ta look at that right across the board though , we 've got ta know that in actual fact we 're covering it temporarily , erm or are n't we covering it temporarily .
6 This is of course why we , we are proposing the trial in which would er give us an end performance grass cutting contract but we do n't want to do that right across the county because of the projected cost , until we know whether it would work .
7 Coupled with the Phantom 's one-piece maple neck , with the same radius as the Teardrop and a low action with wide string spacing , the feel is comfortable and friendly right up the neck , and barre chords above the twelfth fret are no trouble at all .
8 ‘ So you remained friendly right through the war , did you ? ’
9 And I think that somewhere along the line , erm , even if it 's only a moderate sum , we should make definite erm , approaches to start the ball rolling in this preventative effect , because I think we 're going , every , every budget head in the whole of the county or anythi or anybody else who 's got a budget , is going to pay the penalty , so I would like that to see if there 's any movement , any way we can address that particular problem , er , during our , our discussions .
10 She did not doubt but that somewhere amongst the records and corporate memory of the Society would be someone who knew Hereward Marr very well indeed .
11 that somewhere in the world it is coming to pass :
12 In the woods between Lāmri and U hu where the path drops steeply down , the stream had frozen solid right across the path and we had to pick our way for half a mile , across the ice .
13 Not forgetting in that most of the mines then , at that particular time , were nearly all privately owned .
14 But it does n't work out like that most of the time
15 In fact the incidence of giving an answer such as 5.882 etc. in the stamps question was low ; probably because many pupils in the sample did not use a calculator to do the question .
16 Look at that properly in a minute .
17 A striking feature of these statistics is the high proportion of youth unemployment , due mostly to the decline in job opportunities for young people during the recession .
18 The project will comprise a review of pertinent research findings--notably from the study of small businesses , urban geography and regional economics--together with an investigation of specific practical initiatives in the area of local business development .
19 was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids .
20 The Act provides that there is no liability under this head for damage which is due wholly to the fault of the person suffering it and that contributory negligence is a partial defence .
21 The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass .
22 Eight somewhere down the back , ’ said the auctioneer .
23 If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life .
24 He crossed the corridor in two strides and sat in a small room that was used for counselling or small case conferences , leaving the door open and flipping impatiently through the file .
25 Keeping in touch with this flow , as well as the hundred-odd pages of daily transcript , was a job practicable only for the zealots like Brian Rome or the massed ranks of the CEGB staff .
26 The fire effects were awful , very embarrassing , and due entirely to a lack of money . ’
27 Because there is no ozone radiative feedback in either simulation , the dynamical evolutions are identical , and therefore differences are due entirely to the changes in chemistry .
28 If you know that distance , you can work out what the red shift would be if it were due entirely to the expansion of the universe .
29 The structure of the Pacific — its enormous , landless centre , its contorted and congested peripheries — is due entirely to the plates of which it is constructed and the manner in which they have moved in relation to each other .
30 Erm , would the er spokesman not agree that there is a crisis in secure accommodation in Leicestershire at the moment due entirely to the stance of the Labour and Liberal parties on this authority .
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