Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter deals mainly with optical ( or visual ) effects that involve construction in three dimensions , a stage beyond matte painting , and therefore a step nearer to physical , or mechanical , effects , which mostly tend to involve live action shooting on set or location . |
| 2 | Some leaves have buds growing by their divided lobes , and these eventually grow to become new plants . |
| 3 | If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions . |
| 4 | Both processes constantly tend to become perfunctory , routinized and burdensome . |
| 5 | He has refused all real negotiation at any stage , since negotiations necessarily mean dropping preliminary conditions like the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait . |
| 6 | The analysis was inconclusive , but there are indications that change ( especially change involving non-manual workers ) was associated more with firms operating below capacity rather than at full capacity . |
| 7 | Variegated plants will start to make more chlorophyll in their leaves in response to restricted sunlight , and so tend to turn green in the shade . |
| 8 | Neither would a sovereign state 's government necessarily want to oppose transnational corporations , for the former often find themselves in the unenviable position of needing the latter more than the latter need them . |
| 9 | ‘ We only want to get engaged . |
| 10 | Families who 'll be watching to see what changes are made say they only want to make sure further tragedies are avoided . |
| 11 | I only want to make clear that the problem is far more complex than it is represented . |
| 12 | ‘ It would n't be worth it … people only want to hear new issues not scratchy old ones … ’ and so on . |
| 13 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 14 | However , the public rightly expect to have particular assurance about standards of safety in the nuclear industry ’ . |
| 15 | She says I could put hers down , you says I could put yours so stop telling big whoppers again . |
| 16 | So stop playing innocent and answer my questions , please . |
| 17 | It already enjoys enough clout to attract considerable television coverage , a senator and the cream of the French gastronomic press . |
| 18 | Italians only find skiing interesting when they 're shouting epithets or carving each other up , which makes for severe anxiety neurosis among less passionate mortals . |
| 19 | But the real villains are the Luxembourgers and Italians who stubbornly continue to buy leaded petrol , even though many of their petrol stations offer the cleaner alternative . |
| 20 | That last requirement could best be met by establishing a large enough market to warrant actual manufacture in the Far East . |
| 21 | There she would stay , he told her , without food or water , until she had spun enough thread to weave new hangings for their marriage bed . ’ |
| 22 | Evidently it is not much use replacing existential propositions with their properly quantified " canonical " paraphrases , if the concept of existential quantification itself gives rise to obscurities and can not be made sufficiently precise . |
| 23 | You will write more rapidly If you join as many letters as possible , so try using looped tails on your letters even If this is something you do not always do when writing . |
| 24 | So try to maintain normal meals at normal mealtimes , and normal sleeping patterns as far as possible . |
| 25 | Frequent sugary snacks do more damage to teeth than the same amount of sugar all in one go , so try to limit sugary foods to mealtimes . |
| 26 | This Is for those people who think they are n't properly dressed unless they 've got the right badge on — and are guilty about their middle class backgrounds and so dress to look poor . |
| 27 | ‘ I think some people at 75 perhaps do feel old . |
| 28 | The role of the lecturer was to act as a channel of communication between company and college , to explain each to the other , to organise and perhaps deliver bespoke short courses , and to contribute his or her skills to the company . |
| 29 | So do make sure that at least one of the contacts listed at the foot of the release is around to answer questions . |
| 30 | So do make sure that whatever cleanser you 're using , make sure it all comes off . |