Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Pisan ordeal had shocked Pound into recovering a compassion and tenderness which we look for mostly in vain in the Pound of the years preceding . |
| 2 | Although the eclipse is only partial at the two highest frequencies , so that the pulses are observed throughout the orbit , strong pulses are seen for only about one-quarter of the time at 606MHz , close to phase 0.75 when the pulsar is nearest to the Earth . |
| 3 | Although wound discomfort is usually fairly short lived , nerve injury during the operation occurs after somewhere between 1 in 100 and 1 in 10 hernia operations and this can lead to more persistent or even permanent pain , discomfort or numbness over the groin , the base of the penis , and the upper part of the thigh . |
| 4 | By the following year , as a result of mortgage and foreclosures , the manifest favouritism shown to French squatters and the pressures of population , peasants in Tonkin were having to feed themselves on average from the product of just over one-third of an acre of padi per head : in some localities barely a fifth . |
| 5 | No attempt was made , therefore , to calculate the delivery times of individual items from the Annexe , since it is known that delivery times range from an minimum of just over three-quarters of an hour , for requests submitted immediately before the majority of the van 's departures from the Main Building , to a maximum of around sixty-six hours , for requests submitted immediately after the van 's final departure on Fridays ( and longer at holiday periods ) . |
| 6 | The Government has limited public sector pay rises to one point five per cent , although teachers will receive a rise of just above half of one per cent . |
| 7 | Last month , the Minister of Culture Alberto Ronchey simply decreed that , from a date as yet to be fixed , but in any case before the summer season , all State-run monuments , museums , galleries , gardens , villas , parks and archaeological sites are to be open from nine in the morning until seven in the evening instead of just from nine until two . |
| 8 | As Ashton has pointed out , to the extent that the London recipients discounted these from the balances of rural banks , capital was being moved from areas of oversupply to those of greater demand . |
| 9 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 10 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 11 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 12 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 13 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 14 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 15 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 16 | When you enter this option , the scrolled area will display a set of up to 16 of your oldest mail messages . |
| 17 | Also it will be possible in the case of a claim for the total loss of an outboard motor , either actual or constructive total loss , to apply a similar deduction of up to one-third from the replacement cost of a new engine . |
| 18 | ‘ The setting of an arbitrary limit of 2,000 prescriptions per month before payment of the new allowances will adversely affect and could even lead to closure of up to one in five pharmacists in Cheshire . |
| 19 | Woking manager Geoff Chapple said the club expected a gate of up to 3,000 for tomorrow 's home fixture with Kingstonian . |
| 20 | The United States decided this week to delay a planned withdrawal of up to 3,000 of the 18,000 US troops in Somalia . |
| 21 | Endodermal cells , which have been cultured alone , generally fail to proliferate and only survive short intervals of up to four to five days . |
| 22 | Pupils are seated in groups of up to four around a number of evenly spaced tables . |
| 23 | The average brood size noted ranged from 3.6 to 7.7 , with a mean of 5.2 , but the number finally reared was often much less ; the few figures available indicate a predation rate of up to 40 per cent. , sometimes more . |
| 24 | A pension at the rate of the officer 's pensionable pay is payable for note less than 91 days to the spouse of an officer who dies in service with less than 2 years qualifying service , his widow will receive an annual pension of up to one-half of what his/her pension would have been if he/she had been retired on ill health grounds on the date of his/her death . |
| 25 | The Scottish Commonwealth Games Council has set a £250,000 target to send a record team of up to 160 to Victoria , Canada , next year . |
| 26 | Crocodiles can lose water at a rate of up to half of that of amphibians ( which have a much more permeable skin , and would greatly suffer from desiccation on land were it not for the safety valve of a reduced urine flow , which passes much of its water content back into the body ) . |
| 27 | The screen is capable of 64 shades of grey , and resolutions of up to 640 by 480 pixels . |
| 28 | Since 1962 counts of up to 60 have been made in winter at Chichester gravel pits , and of up to 30 at Weir Wood Reservoir , with small numbers regular elsewhere . |
| 29 | Extending to the 6–16 years age range of Braybrook , we would predict a population of up to 150 from which the better speakers of his 22 were chosen ; Conrad 's figure excludes those placed in ordinary schools . |
| 30 | Due to the brevity of this period a neurone can send action potentials at a rate of up to 1000 per second . |