Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 If a government , using its majority in Parliament , passes appropriate laws empowering it to do specified acts , are its activities thereby rendered legitimate because they are done in accordance with the law , regardless of how oppressive or repugnant those laws might be ?
2 ‘ McIniff was blackguard enough to do that but you 'd think that at least he 'd be ashamed to tell it . ’
3 But it is the cinema which has blended all these different forms together to create potent and resonant imagery , a visual and aural imagery of powerful locomotives , billowing smoke , clattering rails , and melancholy train whistles , allied to the ideal dramatic potential of a mixed group of passengers thrown together by circumstance for the duration of the journey .
4 Next , Joan Oliphant-Fraser the Dame of Champagne and author of the book The Champagne Diet will discuss the benefits of drinking champagne daily to stay happy and healthy .
5 HERE ARE two compilations whose existence obviously means more than a desperate milking of the public udders .
6 In practice , of course , a large number of these relationships rarely involve more than a few people .
7 Consequently as T decreases ΔG M eventually becomes positive and phase separation takes place .
8 The government and its supporters eventually accepted this but then insisted on a 75 per cent majority applying to regional issues , including the country 's future status as a unitary or a federal state .
9 The end of this breakwater only becomes clear when fairly close , but otherwise the approaches to the main port are simple .
10 Work out exact dimensions and design before you start construction : steps only become difficult if you start building them , then try to work out step sizes as you go .
11 You may find that you sleep better than before ( and can throw away any sleeping pills you may have been taking ) , that you have got rid of that nagging headache or that the muscles in your neck and shoulders suddenly feel warm and relaxed .
12 Sessions just got better and better .
13 Spires , corner towers , belfries , even unusually shaped domes soon adorned all but the smaller frame stations .
14 But the seal just looked puzzled and kind , then smiled like the sun rising .
15 Other people can be motivated into activity year-in-year-out just to acquire more and more money .
16 The predators considered in this chapter generally consume most or all of the bodies of their prey .
17 It was also at this stage of increasing daily use and possibly injecting that family relationships generally became strained and in many cases reached breaking point .
18 But in May 1981 the contradictions finally became irreconcilable when Elliott insisted on his right to hire prestigious journalists at ‘ appropriate salaries ’ .
19 Any normal man would find it a pleasure just to sit still and look at her , drinking her in .
20 Fewer than one in ten of LEAs in England and Wales have conducted thorough language surveys , which means that we can assume that most schools still have less than adequate knowledge about the languages and dialects known to their pupils .
21 But the subsection tantalizingly offers more than it gives .
22 Flat braid usually looks better if hand-sewn as lines of machine sewing may spoil the finished effect .
23 The future still looks brighter than it would have done without the new plans .
24 Crerand bitterly resents Docherty who dismissed him as Manchester United 's assistant manager and according to the ex-Celtic halfback , the late Jock Stein once described Docherty as ‘ nothing but a Glasgow corner boy . ’
25 The movie progresses in nine yearly stages from 1981 through to 1989 , with AIDS gradually looming larger and larger until it finally seems to dominate everything else .
26 A poorly-run gasifier rapidly becomes unusable and may destroy the engine to which it is attached .
27 Jargon words usually sound ugly and unintelligible to outsiders .
28 name name dropping the supporters I mean for to those Tories telling them that the that the association for county councils for example is a backer probably counts more than telling them that that is a backer .
29 The department also offers first- and second-level courses as appropriate outside subjects for many other honours degrees .
30 The department also has extensive and state of the art facilities for modern investigations and diagnostic veterinary pathology .
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