Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This startling discovery has supported the idea that cancer develops when a cell contains too much of a perfectly normal cellular protein . |
| 2 | Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later . |
| 3 | Their anger or fear antedates even that of the young infant who is in the process of integrating its pre-verbal behaviour with ill-formed vocal utterances ( although we might well wish to stretch a point and allow the inclusion of the Ameslan apes , particularly Lucy , up to , but not beyond , this point ) . |
| 4 | The floating action has as much to with the stiffness of the tail as the flexibility of the tip . |
| 5 | Unlike classical performers , the education of a jazz or rock musician has very little of the formal teaching situation about it ; these players learn ‘ on the job ’ , through the act of performance itself . |
| 6 | The actual formation of gangs depends as much on the splits and alliances made by the gang leaders as on the gangs ' internal dynamics . |
| 7 | Delegation depends as much upon the personality of the delegator as upon the abilities of the person to whom power is given . |
| 8 | Your drawing shows that much of the enamel is still intact . |
| 9 | Being able to machine knit gives no indication of the personality of the worker , in the same way that being able to drive a car shows very little about the actual driver . |
| 10 | That reasoning applies as much to several debtors each liable for the same debt as to debtors jointly and severally liable for such a debt . |
| 11 | The function of these forceful propulsive waves seems chiefly that of shifting a relatively large quantity of intraluminal content aborally for long distances within the colonic lumen , thereby determining a right-to-left gradient important for the initiation of defecation . |
| 12 | Football asks too much of too few of its most able sons . |
| 13 | This interview means so much to her , ’ she explained in a hurry . |
| 14 | We are level on points and the result means so much to both sides . |
| 15 | The Queen in other words expects too much of them ! |
| 16 | Penny means so much to her . |
| 17 | His assurance that the police used no undue force echoes exactly that of Mayor Daley in Chicago last month . |
| 18 | The role of the hypocrite becomes too much for him : he is , in the end , ‘ o'er-parted ’ . |
| 19 | Objective setting does just this in relation to the project in which leader and follower share responsibility . |
| 20 | I 'm not so sure this applicant knows very much about what 's going on here anyway your worship ! |
| 21 | Well I 'm not so sure this applicant knows very much about what 's going on here anyway Your Worships . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope I do n't upset Glentoran fans too much by joining their biggest rivals . |
| 23 | Coherence is thus associated with complexity ; the meaning of the text is the product of the interaction of its parts , but this interaction depends as much on their difference from one another as on their similarity . |
| 24 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 25 | The new Ludwig museum in Koblenz adds yet another to the many showcases for the Ludwig Collection that dot the map of Europe . |
| 26 | Which is more than can be said for the album sleeve of the new ACR album , which has caused unheard-of dissent at the offices of British Coal who claim that the artwork looks too much for comfort like the British Rail Freight logo and are threatening legal action . |
| 27 | The album contains all the hallmarks of Lindsey 's distinctive electric guitar style , although he 's quick to point out that his playing owes as much to the acoustic as to the electric guitar . |
| 28 | The self-avowed falsificationist Popper says as much in the passage quoted on p.44 , where the italics are his . |
| 29 | Chief constable says too many of the guilty get off . |
| 30 | As you become interested in film acting it is likely that you will also become interested in film making , for the actor 's work depends so much on the technical decisions of the director and editor . |