Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards . |
| 2 | Whilst our schools and colleges are offering some of these courses , traditionally the bulk of such courses are to be found in the county Colleges of F.E. They can be of one year duration or provide a route either to higher education or more advanced professional qualifications . |
| 3 | It can be a route away from unemployment or dead-end jobs . ’ |
| 4 | Even in these situations , however , first generation Caribbeans are more likely to use a variety close to the local Standard English of their birthplace than the Creole , while the second generation are much more likely to use London English than a form of Creole . |
| 5 | During the whole of this offensive , many thousands of prisoners were taken ; the 101st established a base well inside Iraq and armour raced on to join them . |
| 6 | The two major volcanoes , Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea , have attained elevations of over 4000m above sea level , but they rise more than 9000 m from the floor of the Pacific Ocean from a base well in excess of 200 km across ( Fig. 5.12 ) . |
| 7 | Bond came later , from a base initially in real estate and classic Australian beer and mining companies . |
| 8 | The report spells out a series of options , and leans towards a plan which would put men on the Moon in 2001 to build a base there as a springboard for the Martian expedition 10 years later . |
| 9 | Sociology has come very late to the university , compared with the other social sciences , and although it has found a base there in a way which the arts or journalism have not , even they have increasingly strong academic connections . |
| 10 | It would be a provision both outside the erm Greater York area and because of the erm statutory definition of the greenbelt being about six miles erm from from York City Centre , it would also be outside the greenbelt . |
| 11 | The district judge can order a trial instead of arbitration , if satisfied that a difficult question of law or exceptionally difficult questions of fact are involved , that fraud is alleged , that both parties agree to trial , or that it would be unreasonable to order arbitration in the particular case having regard to the subject matter , the size of any counterclaim , the circumstances of the parties or the interests of other persons likely to be affected by the claim . |
| 12 | latest on Ronny Johnsen is that he is at — Spurs — for a trial together with fellow norwegian international Oyvind Leonhardsen of Rosenborg , Trondheim ( where halvard live ) . |
| 13 | They all bathed in the reflected glory of having a sister barely into her twenties who was going to travel to the other side of the world . |
| 14 | And meant only for summer and early autumn ; no heating apparatus except the open fires , and a kitchen rather on a par for mod cons with my cottage at Otters ' Bay . |
| 15 | For Freud , this lure of the group is a regression away from the tensions of living in civilized society , with its high development of ego ideal , or conscience , among its members . |
| 16 | Since goodness is a matter of degree , the extent to which one has promoted the good is a function both of the number of good things produced or things made good and of the degree of goodness to which they are raised . |
| 17 | The question of where to entertain is a function both of your budget and the inclination of your guest . |
| 18 | It was therefore concluded that gaze direction is a function both of an individual 's consistent tendency to rely on a particular half of the brain and of differential hemispheric arousal in response to specific experimental situations . |
| 19 | Thus the poverty of older women is a function both of lifelong comparatively low access to resources ( including the non-participation of some in the resource-generating potential of joint households via marriage ) ; and of the restricted access to resources which is imposed by retirement and the assumptions about the level of state pensions which are allied to it . |
| 20 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 21 | That problem is not a function only of Government or their housing policy — it is much more deep-seated and complex than that . |
| 22 | ‘ The best defence for our colonies , as well as for our coasts , ’ he had argued the previous year , ‘ is to have a squadron always to the westward … [ which ] may in all probability either keep the French in port , or give them battle with advantage if they come out . ’ |
| 23 | One reason might be that androgyny typically envisages a unity ostensibly beyond sexual difference , but in fact inseparable from it ; androgyny especially has too often been a genderless transcendent which leaves sexual difference in place . |
| 24 | There the emphasis in late medieval times was on the transcendental unity of the whole body of Christ embracing both the living and the dead , a unity constantly in creation through the energy of love . |
| 25 | More modern valves contain a diaphragm instead of a washer , and are generally far more reliable . |
| 26 | As far as the Bank of England is concerned , the adjustment consists this time of a rearrangement solely of its liabilities . |
| 27 | Analyzing his changed playing surroundings he said : ‘ Going back to North was not a case simply of transferring allegiance from Ballymena , it was more an acceptance that my involvement in serious rugby would be limited . |
| 28 | On that occasion he had made a case both for a tutor-organiser to increase provision for trade unionist students and also for one to develop work in the New Towns of Harlow , Stevenage , Hemel Hempstead and Hatfield . |
| 29 | There was a case now for adding short-range nuclear weapons to the agenda , he said . |
| 30 | I 've got the phone number er it 's just a case now of er getting on and getting it advertised and marketing it but it 's all been signed |