Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although fourteen answers to the fragmentation question concern housework , the housewife rarely thinks about the work she is actually doing . |
| 2 | Sorry , and it is this one that we just got an update on . |
| 3 | Germany thereby formally abandoned all claim to some 102,000 sq km ( the swathe of territory east of the Oder-Neisse , from eastern Pomerania southwards via eastern Brandenburg to Lower Silesia , plus the southern part of East Prussia ) . |
| 4 | The [ defendants ] whether by [ themselves , their ] servants or agents or otherwise howsoever be restrained until trial or further order from : ( a ) delivering up or disclosing to the grand jury in the County of New York empanelled in the matter of the People of the State of New York v. John Doe ( B Bank ) or , without the prior consent of the plaintiffs , delivering up or disclosing to any third party otherwise than in connection with and for the purposes of the business and trading of the plaintiffs or any of them , all documents and information contained therein held by [ these defendants ] at [ their ] branches in London or elsewhere within this jurisdiction concerning or relating to the plaintiffs ' accounts with the [ defendants ] or any of them or otherwise relating to the business of the plaintiffs or any of them ; ( b ) without the prior written consent of the plaintiffs ' solicitors herein , removing from the jurisdiction of this court any of the documents referred to in subclause ( a ) hereof or any copies thereof . |
| 5 | Times had changed ; there was a worldwide recession on , and in the meantime Steven had got married , become a father , and got divorced . |
| 6 | There 's a recession on . ’ |
| 7 | Surely not ; there 's a recession on . |
| 8 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
| 9 | Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not |
| 10 | Think she 's absolutely , recession on , so many people |
| 11 | ‘ With just three days until polling , it is becoming clear that the voters do not want either the Conservative or the Labour Party to win this election outright , ’ Mr Ashdown told his party 's campaign news conference in London . |
| 12 | Cos her sons had got married and she lived in a little bu flat , bungalow rather . |
| 13 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 14 | Though he has not released a record in five years , his success in the 1980s was astronomical : his three solo albums sold more than 75m copies altogether , his two home-videos 1m each . |
| 15 | you see them like from the front going beep beep beep right , this line goes down the middle |
| 16 | At pains to point out that ‘ O ’ Level Eng Lit. was the sole exam he had ever failed , Fordham 's continuing interest in these bizarre tutorials — in the face of ribald comment both from his colleagues and mine — was but one of the many facts which confirmed a certain singularity amongst cricketers . |
| 17 | The Quakers , for example , dispensed with a professional ministry altogether and held completely unstructured meetings , at which both male and female members of the congregation could testify as and when the spirit moved them ; they also developed their own simple marriage and burial services . |
| 18 | There is a swimming pool , tennis court , billiard room , occasional piano bar , and there is the possibility of arranging half or full board locally . |
| 19 | A good hash function will distribute values uniformly throughout a waiting array ( used for access ) called the hash table . |
| 20 | At this were his knights little pleased . |
| 21 | ‘ Who is it ? ’ would come a voice from the passageway within , as Granny called through the grating : ‘ Walk in , please … ’ . |
| 22 | It is also interesting to note that even though the fertility rate of female textile workers was low from the beginning of the period , this was not the case in Preston , probably because the women weavers tended to be married to general labourers rather than to fellow textile workers , again suggesting that it was the occupational status and attitudes of the husband that were more important . |
| 23 | The government 's plans effectively met the demands of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and other opposition groups for a transitional constitution to be devised by a constituent assembly chosen on a representative basis . |
| 24 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 25 | Family Groups consist of a network of small local groups mostly of mothers and young children , meeting regularly under the guidance of locally recruited group and play leaders . |
| 26 | Had Norman Cowans , Ricky Ellcock and Angus Fraser all been healthy , the script would surely have taken its expected course ; as it is , the Middlesex seam attack deserves that ‘ pop-gun ’ tag rather more than its national counterpart . |
| 27 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 28 | Managers commonly talk of ‘ strategies ’ that concern inputs rather than outputs . |
| 29 | ( d ) Control is primarily exercised on the budget inputs rather than its outputs . |
| 30 | It stresses inputs rather than outputs by providing data on what government consumes instead of data about what government does or the purposes for which money is spent . |