Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Franco himself was head of government , this effectively made Carrero his Private Secretary . |
| 2 | Polanski used the club as his base and as an access point to its abounding supply of beautiful women ; just as Hefner 's Playboy mansion in Los Angeles was a magnet for the bright young things of Hollywood , so Lownes established a social whirl that attracted the cream and the elite of off-beat London society , plus some very famous names , eventually to include Nicholson himself . |
| 3 | As you slowly lose weight you can programme little rewards for yourself , like a visit to the hairdresser for a restyle , new make-up , new glasses , a tour of the clothes shops to try out new styles , and so on . |
| 4 | Visualizing your opponent as he really is , without his fearsome trappings , is not easy ; and concentrating the mind , to allow you to visualize , is also an acquired skill ; but both concentration and visualization are widely taught techniques which can be mastered with practice . |
| 5 | Indeed , no major studies of evacuation due to hazards have been undertaken in recent times and this is a widely recognized deficiency which no research funding body seems willing to rectify . |
| 6 | DRDOS seems to have drivers only for 286 and upwards machines but I eventually got EMM.SYS which was also to be found locked away in my ROM and got the machine to recognise the expanded memory . |
| 7 | It decided to do this through the dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary which was incorporated on 24 March 1982 . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , local authorities have power not only to prevent developments which would clash with amenity ( for example , the siting of a repair garage in a residential area ) but also to reject badly designed developments which are not intrinsically harmful . |
| 9 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 10 | If we had such highly centralised decision-making it would not matter who won elections or who was Chancellor of the Exchequer , because such issues would be decided elsewhere . |
| 11 | But is it still true you only recruit people who are born British ? ’ |
| 12 | In complex and highly differentiated societies there is such an abundance of different sorts of skills and knowledge which one might learn that a reliance on informal means for their successful acquisition would be useless . |
| 13 | The proportion of highly placed advisers who had nothing to lose if serfs were emancipated would accordingly diminish . |
| 14 | I suppose that as Leeds ( hopefully ) only sell players they do n't want . |
| 15 | Although only using watercolour it appears that Green imitates the technique of painting boulders . |
| 16 | ‘ Get off this boat , ’ I told him , but my anger only amused Sweetman who unfolded his long thin legs from the cushioned thwart . |
| 17 | Other publishing houses in other countries will naturally prefer artists who are already internationally well known . |
| 18 | In Germany , both the Minister for Internal Affairs and the Ministers of Culture in the Lander can take independent decisions , while the Russian part of the commission is a consultative body and can only make recommendations which are subsequently ratified at State level . |
| 19 | Not necessarily using time which are a lot more something where they 're completed . |
| 20 | On the seasonally adjusted basis there were 2,546,000 unemployed claimants in December 1991 . |
| 21 | Only eat meat which has been cooked thoroughly right through i.e. brown with no trace of blood or pinkness . |
| 22 | For example , if a program calls for divergent responses to open questions and the teacher only accepts responses which he deems to be ‘ correct ’ , then the potential of the program to stimulate divergent thinking will be at least partly thwarted . |
| 23 | It creates a compulsion to refuse treatment or only to accept treatment which is likely to be ineffective . |
| 24 | And I wish to argue further that in using drama to promote the individual 's growth we have inadvertently distorted drama itself on two counts . |
| 25 | There are also many joint degrees available where departments work together to train graduates who will be well equipped to face a rapidly changing job market . |
| 26 | Success at the level of macro-institutional policies does not automatically produce a knock-on effect at the level of everyday social interaction , and local ‘ grass roots ’ initiatives do not necessarily yield models which are applicable to strategies of structural transformation . |
| 27 | The old system — by which banks only reported accounts which received more than £500 per annum interest — was scrapped in return for the abolition of composite rate tax , enabling gross interest payments for savers on low incomes . |
| 28 | There are few naturally occurring organisms which have the ability to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere and those that can are prokaryotes ( organisms with no membrane separating the DNA-containing organelles from the rest of the cell ) . |
| 29 | There must be a naturally occurring substance which acts on the receptors , and , if so , it was likely that it was made and , when appropriate , let loose close to the opiate receptors , especially in the brain . |
| 30 | The roots of the reeds contain naturally occurring bacteria which transform toxic elements contained in factory effluent , into benign substances . |