Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right turns from Bondgate into Skinnergate will be banned completely . |
| 2 | Right turns from Bondgate into Skinnergate are banned completely . |
| 3 | And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool , dark attic , which the writer nervously visits from time to time ; and yes , oh dear , while he 's been hard at work downstairs , up in the attic there are puckering skins , warning spots , a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes . |
| 4 | The bandicoots and the wombats are both diggers , excavating long burrows in search of their food . |
| 5 | This basically refers to success in spreading genes to later populations ; even if this means damage to an individual organism 's success . |
| 6 | The inhabitants of these shells extend long threads through pores with which they trap particles of food . |
| 7 | In this environment , the true scientist 's heart naturally turns to thoughts of revenge . |
| 8 | Since it is a non-democracy , dislike of the incumbent swiftly turns into rejection of the state itself . |
| 9 | In a niche above was a depiction of God the Father toward which Christ below turns with angels on either side . |
| 10 | It is precisely because of this view that we discover the highest purpose of PATTERN PRACTICE : TO REDUCE TO HABIT WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO HABIT IN THE NEW LANGUAGE , so that the mind and personality may be freed to dwell in their proper realm , that is on the meaning of the communication rather than the mechanics of grammar . |
| 11 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 12 | It is clear that an element of contrast is intended , with a meaning something like " in writing Othello , Shakespeare becomes an exception , and so stands in contrast to other writers ' . |
| 13 | If the pond level only drops during periods of hot weather it is safe to assume that evaporation is the cause . |
| 14 | Every year the Indian newspapers chart Siberian crane sightings with the devotion and enthusiasm the British press usually only musters at times of royal births . |
| 15 | In winter , the aphid lays its eggs only on the spindle bush in hedgerows in the UK ; so counts of eggs on these bushes enables Professor Michael Way at Imperial College to predict how prevalent the aphids will be in the summer . |
| 16 | Much depends of course upon what is meant by ‘ success ’ as well as by ‘ policy ’ and ‘ planning ’ . |
| 17 | The Mother of Us All shows more continuity , but again much depends upon production in what is still a largely non-narrative opera . |
| 18 | As the person through whom all orders for purchases from project grants must pass , this is clearly a key position in the project 's structure . |
| 19 | The attempt to do so leads to abstraction in which societies , or systems , seem to behave without any reference to actual people . |
| 20 | This should make life a little easier for the prosecutor , but let's not forget that the prosecutor only deals in terms of the crimes , with violence that has occurred , and the violence that has occurred is of course something which has gone wrong in society . |
| 21 | Wilkinson illustrates his conclusion by suggesting that a comparison of the optical company and the plating company displays the folly of the notion that de-skilling and increased management control over production processes necessarily leads to increases in efficiency . |
| 22 | His role only exists in terms of the other roles in the game . |
| 23 | Section 3 only protects against actions of defamation in that it gives qualified privilege to extracts from any reports protected by sections I and 2 . |
| 24 | The degree to which ‘ internal ’ factors — as opposed to external pressures — lead to the emergence of a separate nationality obviously varies in emphasis between cases , and the first were possibly of greater significance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the emergence of the first national groups in Europe . |
| 25 | In this perspective , it was industrialization and urbanization which triggered those processes and which led ultimately to a weakening of family ties , and especially ties with kin outside the so-called ‘ conjugal family ’ composed of a couple and their immature children ( Morgan , 1975 , ch. 2 ; Harris , 1983 , chs. 6–8 ) . |
| 26 | The actual number of Greater London boroughs controlled by each party naturally varies from election to election and is strongly affected by the national political climate . |
| 27 | The larger eddies , which do play a role in the generation of the Reynolds stress , must be more characteristic of the particular flow , since the Reynolds stress distribution necessarily varies from flow to flow . |
| 28 | Where rejuvenation intervenes before the river has had sufficient time for lateral erosion to form a flat valley floor , there will not be river terraces at the side of the stream but merely breaks of slope in the valley sides ( Fig. 9.6 ) . |
| 29 | However , all businesses must always bear in mind that in Community law , privilege only attaches to communications with independent legal advisers and not with in-house Counsel . |
| 30 | He is encouraged to go on with the process of living ( line 60 ) and perhaps hints at compensation for suffering in an after-life . |