Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [adv] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 So long as the world was politically , and militarily , if not economically , permeated with British influence , school geography could safely and fruitfully explore even the most unlikely regions .
2 Once ejaculation and orgasm have been achieved by the man his penis will more or less rapidly return to its former size .
3 However , if one tries to envelop the noun phrase and the adjective in a single question , then , on the one hand , the result will usually or always be grammatical , because the verbs occurring in this construction can of course stand as ordinary transitive verbs , but , on the other , the question form will naturally be taken as related to the ordinary transitive verb with a simple noun phrase object — with a corresponding alteration in the meaning expressed ; ( 23 ) is an attempt to put such a question : ( 23 ) his sister set the owl free what did his sister set ? to which suitable answers could include the mousetrap or the first four questions .
4 Because of the interrelationships between the language modes , in good classroom practice the programmes of study will necessarily and rightly be integrated .
5 The working memory representation in TRACE can quickly and effectively brings such information to bear .
6 Also , the Euboian cleruchy may actually and ironically have accelerated the revolt it was designed to prevent — because cleruchiea had a garrison function ; but if the cleruchy was installed as early as 450 it can not have been an immediate grievance .
7 It was therefore inevitable that the BDA would sooner or later enlist professional help to raise money .
8 The chronicler Hall emphasised the consternation produced by the government 's success in establishing a basis for swingeing taxation , and although wealth can seldom or never have been overstated for fiscal purposes , the Rutland muster book could perhaps be the exception that bears out his claim that ‘ some avaunced them selfes more than they were worth of pride , not remembryng [ realising/ suspecting ] what was coming ’ , naively succumbing to the blandishments of the commissioners , who ‘ did what they could to set the people to the vttermoste ’ .
9 But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy .
10 Similarly , David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan referred to using headhunters when he had an eye on a specific person within another company : a headhunter could discreetly and confidentially find out if that person might consider moving , before the name of the interested party , i.e. Grand Metropolitan , need be revealed .
11 Obviously our public opinion would bitterly and rightly resent any delay in getting our men home , or any infliction of unnecessary hardship on them , and if the choice is between hardship to our men and death to the Russians the choice is plain . "
12 Anyone with a desire for truth will unreflectingly and instinctively do this .
13 Prepayments and other assets will only be carried in the balance sheet to the extent that their recoverability in the business can reasonably and prudently foreseen .
14 As long as a band can physically and economically do it , I would want to take their music to the people wherever they are .
15 There must be evidence adduced from which a conclusion can properly and genuinely be drawn that a contract existed and that the place of performance was the country in which the action was brought .
16 Thus , the person may rapidly and unpredictably veer from one extreme of a symptom to the other .
17 It is also a requirement of health and safely legislation that no person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health , safety and welfare .
18 Article 9 places a duty on all persons , whether employers , employees , or self-employed , and states ‘ No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health , safety or welfare in pursuance of any of the relevant statutory provisions . ’
19 ‘ No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health , safety or welfare in pursuance of any of the relevant statutory provisions . ’
20 Moreover , any extrapolation from data as a basis for policy runs the high risk that the demonstration of a relationship will sooner or later cause a modification of the actions which determine it .
21 The teacher 's role may well and probably should be the major one with computer programs providing plenty of illustrations and challenges .
22 He concluded that there was neither a general rule of the common law nor a principle of natural justice that a public law authority should always or even usually give reasons for its decisions .
23 Monetarist theory argues that the two lines on the graph should more or less coincide over long periods , showing that any increase in the money stock in excess of that needed to finance real output growth will be dissipated in price rises .
24 For while it was happy for the advisory team to devise policies which went into considerable detail about aspects of classroom practice which are surely for schools and teachers to determine , it remained relatively aloof from one area of school life — home-school links-where policy might usefully and helpfully have stipulated not just goals and commitments but also a range of procedures from which schools could choose .
25 His father would now and again telephone me saying that David was down to his last few pounds and that he worried about money .
26 It was a private lair , and though they 'd often wished to have a fire they 'd never done so — not because they feared for the dry wood of the spinney but because they knew that rising smoke would sooner or later be investigated .
27 All of the findings we report are based on the assumption that this questionnaire can accurately and reproducibly detect a change in anxiety , even when the same questionnaire is administered twice with just one hour between each assessment .
28 The difficulty factors can operate as foci for teaching : pupils ' search strategies , their competence in interpretation and in calculation may separately or collectively need attention in order to improve performance .
29 Life and love must emphatically and resonantly go on : here , that 's what we 're all about .
30 In concrete terms , Miliband has argued that in a capitalist society , the interests of private capital will invariably and necessarily be taken into account in the development of public policy and so we should not expect to see business leaders standing on a soap box anymore than we should expect to see those who enjoy the ear of government organising on the streets .
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