Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's have a defence review so both the military and the industries are prepared for change when it comes . ’ |
| 2 | Heathland in southern England is perhaps the most threatened wildlife habitat in Britain , despite the fact that its international importance is well established — the Dartford warbler , nightjar , stonechat , sand lizard and smooth snake make up just a part of the splendid fauna . |
| 3 | Again , the law of the supermarket reveals that the rules of criminal law and of contract interrelate very closely . |
| 4 | Signed to a major label , The Wedding Present sit rather awkwardly on the edge of acceptance into mainstream pop . |
| 5 | First , the firm is eager to expand its data-transmission services , which at present make up just 5% of total sales ; by 2000 it hopes that will have risen to around 20% . |
| 6 | ‘ As the cockle-gatherers of Penclawdd , the seaside village a few miles from the Eisteddfod field realise only too well , the ebb never leaves empty-handed it leaves behind traces of new life . |
| 7 | She carried her haul up the hill to the cottage where she found the kitchen empty once again , although she could hear people talking in the living room . |
| 8 | One common source of distrust of hermeneutics in social science is that the idea of ‘ meaning ’ is so various and elusive , as the first few pages of this chapter make all too plain . |
| 9 | some bike ride is n't it … we 'll let you know how Jamie gets on in that race … we 're racing off to our action round up now and first stop for Mark Kiff is the British Horse Trials Championship at Gatcombe Park |
| 10 | So keep your fingers crossed … action round up now … and we 've two new champions to toast |
| 11 | Culturally and linguistically , Britain offers a nexus of increasingly plural possibilities , a promising ground for a postmodernism which may in the future develop more strongly in Britain than it has hitherto . |
| 12 | In other countries where readership is similarly very limited and where the high cost of imported newsprint and machinery and the paucity of advertising revenue combine in much the same way to exclude the private investor , the government has to become involved if a local press is to exist . |
| 13 | He shot her a suspicious glance , and continued his commentary : ‘ The molten metal is received into that holding furnace down there . |
| 14 | But looking at him still , she saw the corners of his mouth pick up slightly , and suddenly , so were the corners of her mouth , because , ‘ My friends call me Ven , ’ he advised her , and solemnly added , ‘ Fabia . ’ |
| 15 | There is no reason to believe that , should the demand for labour in industry pick up again , the exodus of young workers from agriculture will not be renewed . |
| 16 | Participants in the Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) make up the largest share of these , accounting for nearly nine per cent of all temporary workers , and participants in the Community Programme ( CP ) together with a small number in the Community Industry programme make up almost all the remainder , accounting for just over four per cent . |
| 17 | The Scottish club want considerably more . |
| 18 | Evaluating the remaining inverse transform where Finally , substituting for A 1 leads to or The second term here gives the decaying transient which is oscillatory if is real , that is , if , while the first term represents the steady-state response deduced way back in section 5.6 . |
| 19 | After adaptation , things that initially appeared to be off to one side appear directly ahead again . |
| 20 | It may be added , moreover , that this suspicion is deepened by the fact that the historians of Bursa , Baldirzade and Ismail Belig , locate Molla Yegan 's burial place quite precisely in Bursa , not Iznik ; and their evidence , if not , perhaps , of such a nature as to be decisive , is yet very telling . |
| 21 | Thereafter , and notably from the 1780s , the company had to make recourse to fresh stock issue not so much to raise fresh working capital but to release it from debt . |
| 22 | The AIDS toll so far is more than 450 dead in America among 1300-plus cases with severe secondary diseases . |
| 23 | There was a car dump there now . |
| 24 | Why does the capture of the ark cause quite so much consternation ? |
| 25 | For we have seen that the bad consequences of an action are supposed to consist not just in pain , but also in loss of pleasure , and the good consequences of an action consist not just in pleasure , but in pain prevented . |
| 26 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 27 | The differences between these two ways of approaching ethnic disadvantage show most clearly in the case of education . |
| 28 | The developments traced in this chapter demonstrate very clearly a significant shift in the control of the school curriculum both north and south of the border : whereas responsibility for the nature and structure of the curriculum once rested with local authorities and individual schools it will now rest with central government . |
| 29 | In between promise and entry lie not only the stories of Isaac and Jacob , but the long story of Joseph and the other sons of Jacob , a period of 430 years spent in Egypt by their descendants , most of it in slave labour , a dramatic escape from the Pharaoh and his army , and forty years of wandering or living in the wilderness of the Sinai peninsula . |
| 30 | In September 1982 , I published an original article which suggested the use of a subsidiary power amplifier to make the load seen by a low power main voltage amplifier seem very much greater than it was in reality . |