Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although fourteen answers to the fragmentation question concern housework , the housewife rarely thinks about the work she is actually doing . |
| 2 | He was also commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war ; he was the first photographer successfully to photograph a war . |
| 3 | The government 's plans effectively met the demands of the African National Congress ( ANC ) and other opposition groups for a transitional constitution to be devised by a constituent assembly chosen on a representative basis . |
| 4 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 5 | Since the contributors to the literature on the new classical macroeconomics rarely take the trouble to furnish a fully articulated theory of the firm in which cost shocks are given equal prominence with demand shocks , one is entitled to take what they have to say on short-run supply responses with a large fistful of salt . |
| 6 | The Craven family of Ashdown Park eventually bought Compton Beauchamp in the middle of the nineteenth century , but never lived there . |
| 7 | Dickson duly complied with their wishes with an appalling 1–4 record on the first day . |
| 8 | At the time of the June 1983 general election , with Geoffrey Howe widely believed to be destined for transfer to the Foreign Office , the financial strategy unveiled in his first budget of June 1979 was being quietly buried . |
| 9 | Wigan and Huddersfield should be officially crowned champions of the First and Third divisions respectively , with Leigh and Sheffield effectively clinching promotion to the First . |
| 10 | Let us now turn to one of the definitions most favoured in the literature , albeit mostly in an implicit form . |
| 11 | Even now , however , good-quality large-scale canvases rarely fetch more than $4 million ; and there have been problems with forgeries . |
| 12 | ‘ No regular job , but does n't draw social security or benefits from the unemployment office — ’ I knew that was a con for a start , as the cops rarely liaised with the Social Security people , let alone with the income tax ferrets , thank God' — and yet no known criminal source of income . |
| 13 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 14 | The illicit drug in commonest use is cannabis and the majority of low or moderate users of this drug rarely experience adverse effects on their health although they may , of course , find themselves at odds with the law . |
| 15 | Seeing their own children in their teens may bring their own adolescence forcibly to mind , along with its unfinished business . |
| 16 | It is the hall mark of a contract of sale of goods that the parties enter into a mutual commitment that the buyer thereby acquires or shall acquire ownership of the goods . |
| 17 | Paintwork badly needing done , |
| 18 | By measuring the energy spectrum of the positron , the researchers effectively measure the spectrum of the antineutrinos arriving at the detector . |
| 19 | He said that this could lead to ‘ a non-statutory monopoly ’ and trigger a free-for-all among farmers with the housewife eventually footing the bill . |
| 20 | The 1929 Parliament was hardly the most glorious in our history , but it was still one in which it was possible to face a major issue on its merits , and to debate with one 's own party without producing mindless noise or mockery from the other side , and by so doing to create an impact upon the general body of the House which improved — and in this instance strikingly improved — the position of the speaker with his own party . |
| 21 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
| 22 | All of this creates genuine difficulties for schools , not lessened by the fact that curriculum and timetable changes ( and all the other changes that the Act demands ) have to be resourced within the limitations of a formula-funded school budget and an LEA budget effectively determined ( because of the way the community tax will work ) by central government . |
| 23 | For example , in those areas where golden eagles fed extensively on carrion sheep which had been dipped in dieldrin , the proportion of pairs successfully rearing young fell from 72 per cent to 29 per cent during the late 1950s . |
| 24 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 25 | For example , when he was invited to visit Bridgnorth ( Shropshire ) in early July , rival crowds made alternative bonfires , " where about one they drank Dr Sacheverell 's health and the other his confusion " , with the inevitable result that the two groups eventually fell to blows . |
| 26 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 27 | Her stained fingers deftly fold betel nut and spices into a betel leaf to hand the paan or a packet of cigarettes to customers who come to her . |
| 28 | A good slo-cooker will come with a recipe book , but there are many recipe books that deal with slo-cooking , such as Slow Cooking Properly Explained by Dianne Page , or Marks and Spencer 's One Pot Cooking . |
| 29 | Three Burgundians therefore met three Scots in a tournament at Stirling presided over by James II , which began with all the appropriate pomp and ceremony , and then acquired all the merits of a punch-up , which the Burgundians duly won three-nil . |
| 30 | These BOB specialists are , however , quite often the principal firms involved in an internal trade route rarely discussed in polite company in Champagne . |