Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is most demanding in terms of irrelevant information — the information I think is irrelevant , all the extras — bits and pieces … |
| 2 | The political historian , raised from the cradle to insist on the importance of chronology and context , would rather think in terms of intellectual biography . |
| 3 | Retailing employment has been a traditional refuge for those workers most exposed to redundancy in other sectors , and as such higher consumer prices ‘ provides a form of social security for the retired and unemployed ’ ( Hills 1983 p.65 ) . |
| 4 | ( The chords shown in Example 83 are limited only to those with the root on C , and are mostly given with notes in close formation . |
| 5 | As between themselves the authority of individual partners to bind the firm can be properly circumscribed by agreement in effective variation of the basic principle set out in this section . |
| 6 | Despite the labour shortage , employers have skilfully staved off demands for big wage increases , helped by sensational talk in the media of an ‘ economic crisis ’ . |
| 7 | Egyptian jewellery adorned the statue of Victory long since looted from Tarentum in southern Italy and displayed in the Curia Julia , named after the Julii , Octavian 's family . |
| 8 | Indeed , conventional hospital wards are rarely designed with people with mental disorder in mind and , even when they are purpose-built , they do not provide a suitable environment for at least three groups of people listed below . |
| 9 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 10 | Among the more conspicuous were Yolande Pompey , who challenged unsuccessfully for Archie Moore 's world light-heavyweight title in London in 1956 , and Hogan ‘ Kid ’ Bassey , a Nigerian who moved to Liverpool in 1952 , three years later won the Commonwealth featherweight title and , in 1957 , won the world featherweight title , before eventually returning to Nigeria as national boxing coach . |
| 11 | In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet . |
| 12 | This basically refers to success in spreading genes to later populations ; even if this means damage to an individual organism 's success . |
| 13 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 14 | There is , however , powerful ethnographic evidence to challenge this explanation and to suggest that the ‘ institutionalised greater respect ’ for written language in England can be better explained in terms of political and ideological practices in the real history of that country . |
| 15 | In that case should they perhaps think of variations in human culture as expressions of permutations in the working of the human mind ? |
| 16 | But health , education and social security together account for 61% of public spending . |
| 17 | However , copying is not necessarily limited to duplication of substantial parts and it is possible to copy a computer program in a wider sense . |
| 18 | In the cutical-chitin chains are apparently joined to proteins by covalent linkages involving aspartic acid and histidine ( Rudall , 1963 ) . |
| 19 | The logic of cross-national comparative study suggests the value of carrying out research within a single industry , a strategy long recognized by students of industrial relations . |
| 20 | To this extent the wheel has turned full circle and the NHS is back where it was when Mrs Thatcher was so irritated by stories of bad news about health services that she announced her review of the NHS . |
| 21 | Under the treaty the role of Japanese troops is almost entirely limited to defence of Japanese territory and sea approaches , but the stationing of US troops on Japanese soil could embroil Japan in any conflict in East Asia . |
| 22 | The focus on the pattern of births among the very poor , a feature of the American concept of the underclass , one which prioritizes ‘ single-parent female headed households ’ as major issues ( blaming the mothers ) , appeared explicitly in Joseph 's 1974 Birmingham speech when he maintained that , because an excess of births was apparently occurring in mothers of social class V , ‘ the balance of our population , our human stock , is threatened ’ . |
| 23 | It is clear that an element of contrast is intended , with a meaning something like " in writing Othello , Shakespeare becomes an exception , and so stands in contrast to other writers ' . |
| 24 | If the pond level only drops during periods of hot weather it is safe to assume that evaporation is the cause . |
| 25 | Moreover we never look hard for what we do n't particularly want to find , and governments ’ revenues and manpower were so highly committed towards programmes of quantitative expansion ( particularly at secondary level ) and subsequently towards keeping the machine they had created running , that few people were prepared to question advice which suggested that a certain new activity could be safely ( and , hopefully , inexpensively ) tucked away at a centre or institute . |
| 26 | Every year the Indian newspapers chart Siberian crane sightings with the devotion and enthusiasm the British press usually only musters at times of royal births . |
| 27 | Duodenal H pylori was only seen in patients with gastric metaplasia ( 10 ( 50% ) receiving NSAIDs , and 34 ( 89% ) not receiving NSAID ) . |
| 28 | I sent up the accent and made the audience laugh by suddenly relapsing into cockney at odd times . |
| 29 | The material therefore only hinted at differences in social life between them . |
| 30 | These life-sustaining ingredients can be applied directly to the vine by man , indeed are so applied by man in commercial viticulture , yet according to Mike Woodhead , the owner of ‘ Le Bonheur ’ in South Africa , it is possible to effect a permanently natural and desirable nutrient cycle in soils considered inferior by some . |