Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruthven suddenly rose as if to suppress some excitement inside him . |
| 2 | However , the labels used in the United States also react with and influence the result which the court believes to be correct . |
| 3 | Darwin 's thinking both drew upon and transcended the conventional ideas of his time . |
| 4 | And it allows companies both to contribute to and benefit from election campaigns . |
| 5 | She nearly ran up again when the milling throngs of people in the hallway below turned as if drilled by some invisible sergeant and stared at her . |
| 6 | The voice we hear is , as usual for the period right up to 1910 , an external voice : women are a group more spoken about than speaking , if we are to believe the written records . |
| 7 | The rest of the group hardly moved as if absorbed in everything the coroner said or did . |
| 8 | But companies can also borrow from banks using a wholesale money market , in which the banks also borrow from and lend to each other . |
| 9 | It is not as much a matter of generating meanings out of a text as it is a matter of making connections between a particular verbal text and a larger cultural text , which is the matrix or master code that the literary text both depends upon and modifies . |
| 10 | ( a beating ) Though my whole inside felt as if clutched in an icy grip , I had gone too far to retreat . |
| 11 | In one of a series of flashy special effects that often intrude rather than enhance the action , Streep 's upper and nether regions instantaneously tighten as if bolted into an invisible vice . |
| 12 | Rachel asked the patient to sit in the small waiting area then turned as if to go and prepare herself to see to him . |
| 13 | As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers . |
| 14 | Leisure was something people never planned for or thought about . |
| 15 | Was Burgess more sinned against than sinning ? |
| 16 | She jerked her head round quickly towards where the Men usually came from and stared fixedly . |
| 17 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 18 | Historie can be seen as describing the past as past , and as fragmentarily reconstructed by the detached , scholarly and scientific method of the historian , ; Geschichte as describing a past which in some fashion also impinges upon and involves the present , a past which must be approached via subjective commitment rather than by a purely objective analysis of a more neutral kind . |
| 19 | About 10 foreigners were among the victims of political violence in 1989 , with the result that foreign aid workers , archaeologists and tourists increasingly withdrew from or avoided rural areas . |
| 20 | ‘ The objects of the present Convention are — ( a ) to secure the prompt return of children wrongfully removed to or retained in any contracting state ; and ( b ) to ensure that rights of custody and of access under the law of one contracting state are effectively respected in the other contracting states . |
| 21 | The matter therefore hinges on whether carving directly onto day in the negative is a skill easily acquired . |
| 22 | The PR element normally deployed to and operated from Wyton during exercises : a typical example being Exercise Tapdance in September 1959 — ‘ I was particularly pleased with the efforts of our PR Squadron during the detachment to Wyton . |
| 23 | The letter drew attention to particular aspects of all three reports previously referred to and stated that there was " a need for a specific managerial and professional initiative to improve the performance of this function " . |
| 24 | For example , it can be used : to predict whether or not a chemical reaction is likely to occur when two different substances are mixed ; to enable the amount of energy theoretically required by or released during reactions to be calculated ; to predict the extent to which a reaction will proceed before reaching a condition of equilibrium . |