Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 2 | However , at the end of the film , the car driven by Mark ( Sean Connery ) drives right down to the end of the road , and instead of falling into the ( non-existent ) harbour , turns right into a previously unsuspected street or quay along its edge and disappears from view . |
| 3 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 4 | The Business Development Division of GDA will continue to seek to stimulate and develop business performance and looks forward to an increasingly close and productive relationship with the city 's business community . |
| 5 | Homoeopathy fits comfortably into a more natural , ecological view of the individual and the society in which he lives . |
| 6 | The analogy is with instinctive mystery — an arcane communing which erupts suddenly at a mutually understood signal , like an entire species of bird becoming aware that it is time to mate . |
| 7 | Since the infra-red reflectance is strongly linked to the presence of water it was thought possible that unfiltered readings might not show the same decline — since to the eye at least the area does not decline until the onset of withering , which occurs only at a much later stage . |
| 8 | This type of heather also grows better in a much drier habitat . |
| 9 | It acts merely as an easily identified and meaningful reference to the version of the package which is to be issued . |
| 10 | It acts merely as an easily identified and meaningful reference to the version of the product package which is to be issued . |
| 11 | The greater focus on labour process also leads away from a primarily sectoral basis of analysis . |
| 12 | And it grows best within a very precise temperature range of 30–31°C . |
| 13 | They are much more risky , tending to be highly volatile — rising quickly but often falling faster , indeed sometimes trading is suspended for a few days so you are locked in until trading resumes usually at a much lower level . |
| 14 | This more complex approach to long waves leads also to a more complex view of uneven development . |
| 15 | Second , he introduced a further equation — a price equation — and found that , as the rational expectations theory predicts , an anticipated rise in monetary growth , of say per cent , leads to an immediate per cent rise in the price level , whereas a similar unpredictable rise in monetary growth leads initially to a less than per cent rise in the price level . |
| 16 | i would have preferred to have seen different brands compared in the main text , which concentrates instead on a very personal and traditionalist viewpoint . |
| 17 | The only minor disappointment is the rather short chapter on the personal social services which suffers somewhat from a rather overambitious attempt to cover too much ground ( i.e. the role of the statutory sector as well as the contribution of both the informal and voluntary sectors ) . |
| 18 | From this caricature ( for that is all there is time for here ) , it can be seen that in its empirical tradition , sociology ( and to a considerable extent social psychology also ) deals primarily with western industrial society , which it examines descriptively in a somewhat piecemeal fashion . |
| 19 | From what seems now like an almost total lack of concern when the news of the virus first reached the organization , there is currently a major emphasis within the organization and a constant campaign of re-education of both callers and volunteers . |
| 20 | The demand fur such a common culture rests either on an altogether over-optimistic belief in the educability of the majority that is certainly not justified by experience or on a willingness to surrender the highest standards of taste and judgement to the incessant demands of mediocrity . |
| 21 | It limps forward at an agonisingly slow pace and then proceeds to heap an unrelenting catalogue of death and disaster upon the audience and the leading characters . |
| 22 | Axelrod comments that this apology ‘ goes well beyond a merely instrumental effort to prevent retaliation . |
| 23 | That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . |
| 24 | The book also moves close to a highly critical analysis of science and yet never becomes anti-science , only anti-scientific : Jones 's own delight in physics enthusiastically drawing the sting out of his own criticism . |
| 25 | This does not mean that the timetable disappears , although in the smaller primary schools operating the integrated day it does so to a very great extent , leaving only such activities as physical education and music needing some organized attention . |
| 26 | He does so in a very subtle manner . |
| 27 | It operates however on a very limited basis in the course of nineteen ninety four it 's likely that there will only be eight half day meetings of the full European parliament in Brussels . |
| 28 | Basically , it fiddles around with the ‘ Twin Peaks ’ /Moby strings and then slides gently into a totally infectious organ and horns track that should put an uplifting smile on many a clubber . |
| 29 | Included are regular guided walks , one of which leaves early after a very serious breakfast ! |
| 30 | Jeremiah comes across as a very sensitive man , who did n't like taking a message which was being ignored . |