Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 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 . |
| 4 | The Craven family of Ashdown Park eventually bought Compton Beauchamp in the middle of the nineteenth century , but never lived there . |
| 5 | This division eventually led to the departure of some of the laboratory 's senior staff , a loss that became the universities ' gain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Seeing their own children in their teens may bring their own adolescence forcibly to mind , along with its unfinished business . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Paintwork badly needing done , |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These BOB specialists are , however , quite often the principal firms involved in an internal trade route rarely discussed in polite company in Champagne . |
| 15 | Lacuna slowly shook her great head . |
| 16 | They gave a spurious reassurance : so friendly , so warm , so protective ( ‘ … but God is round about me , and shall I be afraid ? ’ the computer within suggested doubtfully , but I rejected the idea at once . |
| 17 | The route most trodden by tourists , from St Mark 's Square to the church of the Frari , is to be given an audio-guide circuit . |
| 18 | The Australian Board eventually withdrew the stigma of ‘ unsportsmanlike ’ and the tour continued . |
| 19 | The ‘ drift into a law and order society ’ which Hall identifies did not by any means begin with the accession to power of the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher in 1979 , and its effects have hardly disappeared with her resignation in 1990 , but the ideology made its presence most felt in her heyday in the early to mid-1990s ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 20 | The narrator makes his presence most felt by a series of moralistic or sacrilegious apostrophes : comments on events within the text . |
| 21 | Physically , it can cause hangovers , disturbed sleep , vitamin deficiencies and inflammation of the gastro intestinal tract and , more seriously , severe liver damage eventually resulting in death . |
| 22 | She sat in front of her turfed teepee like a re-located squaw — the mass of brown hair loosely braided and heaped on her head like a parcel carelessly tied with twine , her forget-me-not blue eyes looking at Mary only when she thought she was unobserved , at all other times intent on the middle distance , her small , slight , quick body quivering as she enjoyed the rare comfort of proper sat-down company and felt the physical , close interest of another human being . |
| 23 | He looked covertly across the table at her , at the vital face , the dark eyes , the generous , amused mouth , the blue-black hair loosely knotted on to the crown of her head , so that curls and tendrils clung around the perfect oval of her face . |
| 24 | Last year 's British election duly wreaked it . |
| 25 | The election duly won , he got the job he wanted . |
| 26 | Politicians know full well that a good decision badly made can be disastrous . |
| 27 | Even psychoanalysis , the field most criticized by other areas of psychology for its methodological irregularities , claims scientific credibility from its set rules of data collection and interpretation , and its large body of clinical material . |
| 28 | Equally , sterling held up well as dealers ruled out an early cut in interest rates , or at least until the Bundesbank eventually shows its hand with some cuts of its own . |
| 29 | In 1984 , 35 Squadron regretfully retired its Shackletons , as spares became impossible through the bite of sanctions . |
| 30 | Indeed , over the next forty-five years , Philip Miller repaid his patron through a diligence rarely equalled . |