Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The linesman called it wide — Australian umpire Wayne Mckewan , who had been forced to demand ‘ Silence , s'il vous plaît ’ , almost as often as he had needed to call the score , agreed — and Forget not only lost this point but the next two as well to be 15–40 . |
| 2 | ‘ The Prime Minister has shown herself completely unfit not only to attend any conference on human rights anywhere , but even to utter the very words . ’ |
| 3 | These privileged pejoratives show how firmly entrenched most rockcrit is within the tradition of Anglo-American literary criticism , with its values of proportion , symmetry , restraint , economy . |
| 4 | Tess no longer attached any importance to Clare 's interest in her . |
| 5 | Lucker and myself lie together idly exploring each other 's bodies with the curiosity of two baby elephants who are too young to take advantage of what they have found . |
| 6 | The metal I pick up usually has some shape to it . |
| 7 | We hear so much talk these days about green issues . |
| 8 | We launched this draw not only to encourage more people to enjoy ‘ old York ’ , but also to give them the opportunity to experience the excitement of New York . ’ |
| 9 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 10 | I do n't quite know what 's , what happened , because I remember very well amending these details the last time it came to policy and resources , and that was agreed , because the changes you have made use the working , wording of the Thamesdown scheme , it seems to me far better , erm , as you have moved it , because er , very many people who are elderly , who are sixty-nine years or more or less do n't need any supervision at all . |
| 11 | Nobody wants to admit , that the society we live in actually has these vipers in its bosom . |
| 12 | In this instance , I do not particularly welcome this debate , because I regret having to make these points tonight in this way . |
| 13 | Many do not successfully complete this journey as anemones are often a limited resource on the reef and most of the fry are eaten by predators before they can reach protection . |
| 14 | Senior political figures do not even acknowledge that torture exists , let alone accept that it is a widespread and routine event . |
| 15 | Such an approach brings into consideration a number of issues which do not generally receive much attention in the formal linguist 's description of sentential syntax and semantics . |
| 16 | Although we have now developed good links between business and secondary schools where companies try to interest pupils , we do not yet have enough tie-ups between primary schools and local businesses . |
| 17 | We do not yet have any way of knowing . |
| 18 | They do not however use this data to temper their judgements , with the result that a school may be praised because of the intake characteristics of the pupils rather than because of anything it has done . |
| 19 | However , patency data on heparin as sole adjunctive therapy to thrombolysis do not clearly support this view . |
| 20 | The results — see Table 4.3 — are not conclusive but they certainly do not clearly support any suggestion that action clients were more problematic . |
| 21 | Living systems , on the other hand , do not normally show this tendency . |
| 22 | These are not a direct source of constitutional law in the sense that they do not normally involve any change in domestic law ( see , however The Parlement Belge ( H.C. , 1879 ) ) . |
| 23 | It may sometimes be necessary or desirable in certain contexts to specify plurality or duality in languages which do not normally specify such information because they do not have a category of number or a dual form . |
| 24 | Short sentences , a varied array of conjunctions , and absence of the typical conjunctions ( mainly wa , fa , and a few other particles ) are associated with translated Arabic texts — original Arabic texts do not normally display these features . |
| 25 | However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas . |
| 26 | Even other intimate bodily functions , such as bathing , do not necessarily raise such feeling . |
| 27 | Thus performance statistics alone are not very useful for comparing different systems , since they do not necessarily provide any indication of the superiority of one system over another , nor any insight into the strengths and weaknesses of the various components . |
| 28 | But psychological research seems to indicate that they do not necessarily cancel each other out . |
| 29 | They do not necessarily find such changes easy , and periods of considerable intra- and interparty uncertainty and upheaval may follow periods of relative stability in the party system . |
| 30 | The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process . |