Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 One might , however , still argue that this work , and novels like it , merely ape social science conventions : that , whereas sociologists actually have research designs , cite data and distinguish between warranted and more tentative conclusions , novels are simply works of fiction , mere simulacra of the real thing .
2 Sometimes volunteers alternate between normal and long sleeps ( lasting 16 rather than 8 hours , for example ) or even appear to adopt a sleep/wake cycle that lasts about 50 rather than 25 hours .
3 The revival of cask ale has created a growing need for traditional English hop varieties and , thanks to a good summer — wet at first and then hot and sunny — there will be a bumper harvest this year .
4 By contrast , hunters in packs are usually small relative to their prey and collaborate in diverse and very complex ways in hunting , in transport of food to dens , and in feeding and care of the young .
5 Children react in different and sometimes unexpected ways .
6 Sometimes pupils react to insensitive or even boorish and bullying behaviour on the part of some teachers , but this has to be accepted by the child .
7 In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power .
8 The it comes straight from the coa from the er mines and it 's it 's sent through chutes on these merry-go-round railways that go slow and they stop over this and then it 's all pulverized with heavy steel balls into powder and coal and into the furnaces it 's just blown in .
9 Depend on transmissible and sometimes hereditable agents
10 Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school
11 Tam David-West , Petroleum Resources Minister in 1984-86 and subsequently Mines , Power and Steel Minister until 1988 , was granted bail on Sept. 17 after being charged with " corruptly enriching " in 1986 a United States-based oil company .
12 Word lengths vary from 12 or less to 64 or more bits , typical lengths being 16 and 32 bits .
13 Not sorted out , decided and convinced but curious and open in strange and often wondrous times .
14 finish until late and then I had
15 He had a peculiar way of dismounting — instead of putting his right leg over the saddle in the usual fashion , he used to put his left leg on a step protruding from the rear spindle , stand on this and gently place his right leg to the ground .
16 Yet , some obituaries extend to twenty or more orthographic paragraphs ‘ about ’ the one person , and whole chapters of novels , containing over a hundred lengthy orthographic paragraphs , may be ‘ about ’ the same individual .
17 , look at that and then and then you can straight onto it .
18 It 's it 's been dealt with in Whitemoor , you know about that but also in another pit .
19 The synfuel contribution in the US is likely to increase from about 6 million tonnes of oil equivalent ( MTOE ) in 1983 to 20 MTOE in 1990 and perhaps 40 MTOE in 2000 .
20 So , if you can converse in Czechoslovakian , dabble in Danish or even get by in Greek , then Jenny and Christine would like to hear from you on .
21 Do social security systems provided by the state draw on all or only some of these and how does the mix differ between countries and with what effect ?
22 There are occasional exceptions to this such as ‘ Office boy ’ , but in the main the roles specifying the female gender refer to low and often subservient roles .
23 It is the hunters from the city who talk about that and also those who sell those hunters guns , ammunition and fancy uniforms .
24 At 5 Woolley Street live Richard and Pamela Nadin who deal in unusual and rather strong pieces , often with a touch of the Gothicks .
25 It is not , then , surprising that Spartan indecision , so manifest in 446 and again in 440 over Samos ( p. 46 ) should persist through the 430s .
26 The report points out that the sector is highly diversified : worldwide , the 10 largest companies only account for one third of production , while in Europe a large number of small and medium sized firms operate alongside 15 or so multinationals .
27 We believe in smaller but better , which means a choice between the numbers of people and the quality of the equipment that they can enjoy .
28 Erm the Aldershot method works or appears to work very well with structured thoughts the two merge together very well and erm again that 's the putting down on paper I did n't believe that had actually talk at all and yet it works and as you read it things come into the brain and when you combined all that with the coaching and you can see what you 're doing wrong the rest of it .
29 So if we just go through these and then you can find them in the word search if you like .
30 that 's erm , that 's a slip road what you , and then , your next lane you stay in that lane , only use a right and then if you want to overtake you go into right and then back into right
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