Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the superfield of Applied Science should adequately represent all the subfields listed above , but within the text so far obtained this superfield contains 6 computing texts , 3 engineering texts , 1 energy text , 1 transport text , and none on technology or communications . |
| 2 | One vulture sighting carrion below unintentionally informs all others of its availability by swooping downwards , and thus dozens of vultures arrive at the scene of an animal kill in a very short space of time . |
| 3 | Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about . |
| 4 | There was a time when Ministers in the Department of Trade and Industry not only discussed these matters with the industries but directed them . |
| 5 | The desirability of and necessity for continuing education throughout the lifespan is now widely accepted in principle , although in practice there still exist many barriers , not least of cost , which limit adult participation in education and training . |
| 6 | The ‘ mature ’ writer not only survives those renunciations , they help constitute his art , an art which will always finally take priority over the plight of the other even if , as was the case with Gide , it also succeeds in mitigating it . |
| 7 | He was n't at all old , but he had been in poetry long enough to take these things coolly . |
| 8 | The areas of the world tilted away from the sun not only receive fewer hours of daylight but also less heat during those hours . |
| 9 | Having examined the marble buildings of Rome and Athens , it was refreshing to see white marble outdoors still bearing some resemblance to its original seventeenth-century appearance . |
| 10 | The scene of Essex 's rebellion , in which the Earl never appears , has been judged unfavourably , especially the running commentary provided by the blind ballad-singer.I wonder how widely praised this scene would be if it had issued from the hands of Brecht or one of his collaborators . |
| 11 | Money and intelligence pretty soon had little connection . |
| 12 | Measuring 30 centimetres or so across , it is many times bigger than the largest known trilobite and its armour no longer shows any signs of segmentation . |
| 13 | Edinburgh District Council very nearly cancelled all evening classes in schools , but have reprieved them on condition that the fee per person rises to £30 , and the income from each class per term is the equivalent of the total fees from eleven full-paying participants . |
| 14 | The actual strength of each type very rarely reflected this establishment — at one stage no less than forty B.2s were in use ! |
| 15 | Given this premise , we should not be surprised to find the police are in the forefront of support for proposals such as the introduction of identity cards ; it was not surprising to find the 1988 Superintendents ' Association conference not only supporting this motion , but arguing for the creation of twenty-four hour armed patrols throughout the country and making a plea for a national motorway squad . |
| 16 | The oilbird not only hears each pulse as a distinct sound , but can also interpret its echo . |
| 17 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 18 | Whilst this edition still primarily addresses that situation it also deals with the conveyance of the matrimonial home in other situations , for instance the insolvency of the husband ( see Chapter 10 ) and , following his death , a claim by the wife against his estate . |
| 19 | you absolutely get them going off but sometimes you actually want to use all 's fair in love and war also actually use those sort of tactics . |
| 20 | That smile and that gesture had charm and elegance , while the face and the body no longer had any charm . |
| 21 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 22 | I promise , but not at the moment cos it needs a lot of setting up , I 'll get myself to set my computer up specially to make those disks |
| 23 | These findings suggest that platelet activating factor may be involved in the progression of acute pancreatitis caused by infusion of caerulein but there is no experimental evidence so far to support this notion . |
| 24 | A good school should educate the whole person not just develop each child 's true potential at GCSE and A level , he said . |
| 25 | Such behaviour not only cleaned any dirt off the food but also coated it in salt which may have added to its flavour . |
| 26 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 27 | Driven away from conciliation by an obscure masonic conspiracy in 1816 , it would appear that , on the verge of the revolution of 1820 , the king once again contemplated some form of concession . |
| 28 | I think that the hon. Gentleman and I know each other well enough to understand these matters . |
| 29 | when I came in the other day , I might have a look now actually get some Chewitts for the kids go on looking something for myself |
| 30 | And then they was eating their supper so just want another piece of bread , and they 'd nearly finished the tape . |