Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 2 | Catering & Allied came up with a novel solution : copy the stock file on to one of the two 128k data packs which fit into the back of a Psion Organiser , update that file ‘ on the hoof ’ ; and copy the updated file back to the desktop computer . |
| 3 | But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past . |
| 4 | They were nice , or all right , kind or likeable or easy to get on with . |
| 5 | To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out . |
| 6 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 7 | Says Jim Whiston , ‘ This time next year we 'll have double the number of accreditations and by 1990 the vast majority of businesses in C&P , ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials will have attained BS standards or those laid down by manufacturers . ’ |
| 8 | He explained that there were a limited number of places , with sixteen or seventeen taken up for September already ( I wondered whether this meant Balbinder might be unlucky , but did not like to ask ) . |
| 9 | Neil Miller , the dealing manager , was critical of this manoeuvre , saying of the dealer : " He could be doing four or five deals back in the office . |
| 10 | You get the same piece of pizza whether it 's two shared out between six , four shared out between twelve or one shared out between three or twenty four shared out between a lot of people . |
| 11 | S. Kettering was either a particularly serious-minded chap or anxious to show off to his tenants . |
| 12 | Inside the ground , flares were fired into the England sheep pens after both goals by some Dutch klootzak , and coins and a chair or two flung back by some English dickheads . |
| 13 | In her first year , it took her a day or two to settle down to London , but in her last year she was there the moment she stepped on the train . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got an hour or two to fill in before my train . |
| 15 | And there would be always a beast or two cut up for to be given to the village . |
| 16 | Another is that they do n't shove the gear up on their dining-room walls ; you ca n't have a cop or two show up at some billionaire 's apartment in Sutton Place and demand to go through the strongroom . |
| 17 | One or two went down without taking examinations . |
| 18 | And he seemed to be concentrating on his driving as a minute or two ticked by in silence . |
| 19 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 20 | I 'll squeeze a minute or two to come back at lunchtime , and I 'll bring some things for your throat then . |
| 21 | ‘ I most certainly take exception to one or two hints around at the moment that our biggest problem is keeping our cool . |
| 22 | After the debate , a number of bishops hastened to assure the mass media that they would not knowingly employ gay clergy , although one or two spoke out against homophobia . |
| 23 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 24 | Erm there there were quite a few interesting debates that that came up about policing after the riots , I mean initially it was the fact that you did n't see any policemen in the flats at all . |
| 25 | Bids for f various funding , there are three issues on that that came up at C S M T. |
| 26 | There are sort of costs in that respect that that come out of this erm business report er and on the late sides erm we would actually support the motion that 's been moved by er Charles and Jane but there is a policy of response and that does n't mean to say that they will accept all of it but there may be some good elements er er within it but we need to actually refer it . |
| 27 | What do , in terms of erm , terms of prostitution , is that act , is that , does that bother you or are you not bo bothered really about the fact that that goes on in the area ? |
| 28 | And can I also add that that follows on with the pictures if you like on the bottl on the label in the bottle . |
| 29 | There is some evidence that the sexually transmitted form of hepatitis is more likely to lead to liver damage than that passed on by means of blood products . |
| 30 | It was also over 50 per cent more than that laid down in codes for the relief of famine as a basic subsistence diet ( Kynch 1989 ) . |