Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] [vb base] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It was low-waisted , in deep chestnut georgette with touches of lace at the collar and cuffs — smart enough for evening wear but simple enough for the daytime , too .
2 Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy .
3 We got down to number tend and they were all one liners .
4 The argument is therefore not about police control or a utopia without controls , but to explore why some cultural behaviour has a history of police action and to discover where that behaviour fits into police ideology .
5 Thus I do not for example think that there could be a human person ( which Christians must proclaim ) who stood in a different relationship to God than do all other human beings .
6 There might be occasions when we feel that we 'd like MPs to take a particular line , in fact there are occasions when I 'd like to see MPs take a particular line , but we can only ask them , we can not in fact insist that they do take a particular line .
7 It does not in fact follow that a total whiteout will occur at longer exposures , because of non-uniformity in the sensitivity of the optical RAM .
8 ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 6 ) We will do better to consider the objection that science does not in fact involve or make use of a conception of causal and other nomic connection .
9 Although some of the Roman cattle of the time were indeed large , with long lyre-shaped horns , the archaeological evidence does not in fact suggest that larger stock were imported into Roman Britain , but rather that the increase in size was probably the result of improved management and breeding of the existing British cattle .
10 These alignment rules mean that such computers do not in fact operate as pure byte-oriented machines , and are a consequence of a way in which the architecture of the computers has been implemented .
11 In a similar sort of way , as Fillmore ( 1971b ) notes , the editorial we of , for example , the New Yorker takes plural verb agreement ( thus we are not we am ) , but in the reflexive the underlying singularity shows through in phrases like as for ourself .
12 The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud …
13 The first practice game for Brian Horton as manchester city manager was in the back garden of his woodstock home with twins matthew and lucy … some United fans are glad to see him go … sadly his passion for good football … his achievement of keeping a small club alfoat with little or no money has n't been given enough credit … he did the club proud …
14 I mean , you can get on with people like that that you 've never met before you co , to get on at college exactly the same .
15 Well if you can get on with people like that that you 've never met before you can , you 'd get on at college it 's just the same .
16 Mr Toghill has a degree in English Literature , and his career has been in PR and marketing , and latterly in careers work and the promotion of membership for the AAT .
17 The reports drifting out of Baghdad suggest that an accord of some sort is on the way .
18 Help is at hand , and the company to contact is Cree Research Inc , Durham , North Carolina , which has created a light-emitting diode out of Silicon Carbide that glows blue .
19 Crilly is contemptuous of Henry , but the latter sits beside us just the same , not buying a drink but sniffing and staring dully out of eyes deadish and glazed .
20 Most jobs out of branches require that at least six months has previously been spent as a branch general manager .
21 L lived some two miles from the burgled premises and during the morning of June 4 , police officers saw bin liners and a cardboard box being carried out of L's home and put into a car .
22 He was charged $65 for a call that never got through , and the Inter- Continental has since confirmed that ‘ for technical reasons , charges for all international calls out of Zaire commence as soon as the line rings , as opposed to when the party telephoned actually picks up the receiver ’ .
23 Travellers back from Japan say that profound things are happening over there and that despite the buffeting the Japanese companies are taking from the recession they continue to invest in their Unix operations .
24 And say back to Sarah confirm that she 's right but just use those words .
25 Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino .
26 The branch also had an excellent approach to producing RSA leads and enjoyed good branch inspection , particularly in advances control and advances records .
27 However , I am happy to concede that seeking public approval might well at times override and thus eliminate ‘ disinterestedness ’ .
28 I pad about with Ponds Extract and Lizzie sews dress preservers into everything . "
29 I 'm never sure what to When in Rome do as the Romans do okay for goodness sakes .
30 In the Windows environment there is currently little real competition apart from Windows Write although Samna 's Ami looks to be a strong challenger with its extended handling of fonts .
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