Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restoration here has not only led to the repair of townscape , it has also created jobs for skilled craftsmen ( conservation creates more employment per pound than new build ) , and led to much needed housing for homeless and disadvantaged people . |
| 2 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 3 | Formal studies of code switching thus tend to deal with idealised or edited data , to which syntactic theories are applied : e.g. Phrase Structure Grammar ( Joshi 1985 ) ; Government and Binding ( Di Sciullo et al. |
| 4 | God has gone ahead of us to provide , in the suffering and death of his Son , all the special grace we may individually need to cope with evil and the abuse of love . |
| 5 | While women were increasingly associated with weakness and emotion , by 1860 men no longer dared embrace in public or shed tears . |
| 6 | The clinics operated for short office hours on only one or two days a week and were not staffed to cope with disturbed and upset people who required help in a crisis . |
| 7 | People are already beginning to think of pre- and post-AIDS periods just as we in the seventies grew accustomed to thinking of pre- and post-gay liberation periods . |
| 8 | By 1974 the people of the occupied territories clearly did not wish to return to Jordanian or Egyptian control and wanted self-determination , something which 242 did not propose , as the PLO began to complain . |
| 9 | On the other matter , however , inciting unrest in the city which had already led to trouble between Moslem and Copt and might still lead to massacre , Andrus was , if not the prime mover , then definitely a prime mover , and for that he must be made to pay . |
| 10 | To the end of his life Picasso himself did not bother to distinguish between African and Oceanic art , although he must have been aware of distinctions between the two during his contacts with the Surrealists in the 1920s , for they tended to prefer and extol the ‘ marvellous ’ properties of the latter . |
| 11 | Had not wanted to know for good and certain . |
| 12 | It begins with Banking and Finance , Advertising and the Promotion Industry and Marketing , and booksellers no longer have to apologise for ancient and/or American ESP special English titles . |
| 13 | During the summer of 1985 there was evidence of increasing tension , and a prominent member of the Hornsey Police Federation was quoted as saying that rank and file officers ‘ desperately wanted to go in hard and sort out the criminals ’ . |
| 14 | This would suggest that the study of politics and the mass media needs to take account of the relationships between the media and those in positions of power ; it also needs to focus on specific and recognizable instances of ‘ impact ’ and ‘ effects ’ as well as the deeper level of perceptions of politics and of the political system . |
| 15 | Differences were also reported centring on Soviet and Chinese fears that an immediate arms reduction plan for the Middle East would imply a freeze of Israeli weapons superiority over Arab states . |
| 16 | The constraints from diverse knowledge sources are also needed to recover from underspecified or errorful input . |
| 17 | Dealers may also wish to consider including appropriate and reasonable exemption clauses in their supply contracts with respect to advice-giving computer systems . |
| 18 | Most patients will also require counselling for social and personal difficulties . |
| 19 | Sixteen standing commissions were also created to advise on domestic and foreign affairs . |
| 20 | If I had n't found a way out we 'd both eventually have died of cold or drowning , or both . |
| 21 | Though half the £300,000 spent on the project so far has come from central and local government and charities , the other half has been provided by industry . |
| 22 | Scott ( 1985 ) argues that the criticisms of TNCs in food processing export industries in the Third World often fail to distinguish between national and personal food security . |
| 23 | In the former , women who are housewives and mothers often have to struggle with inadequate and unsupervisable playspace for their children , bleak and frequently vandalised communal facilities , and the unlit terrors of urban pathways at night . |
| 24 | They now have to resort to narrow and exposed ledges , and the shoulders of the mountain , where the continuous high winds prevent a thick cover of snow from settling . |
| 25 | These mammals often need to hunt in deep or murky water , where little light penetrates . |
| 26 | Because MRI is particularly well developed to differentiate between lipid and water , with further development , it may be possible to simultaneously measure transit and absorption of different nutrients in the gut , an area of measurement at present not possible with existing methods . |
| 27 | No , television advertising of beer should be stopped because the regulations surrounding it ( do n't show excessive drinking , do n't associate drinking with social or sexual success , do n't even hint that people might enjoy the sensation of being just a little bit , no , do n't even say the word , drunk ) have led to a series of creative executions that wander around aimlessly avoiding the subject of beer altogether , until the very end when they name it , or maybe not . |
| 28 | Do n't keep painting over chipped or worn polish . |
| 29 | They frequently have to deal with awkward and unpleasant problems which may or may not be of their own making . |
| 30 | English does not have a grammatical category of gender as such ; English nouns are not regularly inflected to distinguish between feminine and masculine . |