Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Let us now turn to one of the definitions most favoured in the literature , albeit mostly in an implicit form . |
| 4 | Even now , however , good-quality large-scale canvases rarely fetch more than $4 million ; and there have been problems with forgeries . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | By measuring the energy spectrum of the positron , the researchers effectively measure the spectrum of the antineutrinos arriving at the detector . |
| 7 | In some ways employers effectively connived with the unions in sustaining costly work practices . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I hope to go in with songs we are all happy with , the arrangements agreed and the musicians properly prepared . |
| 15 | Riders rarely brake with more than two fingers ( often with only one ) and that allows the other fingers to concentrate on holding on . |
| 16 | Researchers rarely conduct research with a finished model of the causal process they want to test in mind . |
| 17 | Above : Unidentified regular infantry unit in field dress ; the fact that some enlisted men wear the crossed rifles on the left side of their slouch hats presumably dates the photograph after July 1899 , when the badge was authorized ( though for wear on the front ) . |
| 18 | With brute strength ( it took at least ten horses to shift even one medium field gun ) , the Germans eventually moved their guns forward but the delays involved meant that many of the deadly 21Os , so essential a part of the German offensive technique , were hors de combat over long periods of the battle during its most critical phase . |
| 19 | The Belgians abruptly rebuffed a request for free stores ; the Dutch and the Germans eventually agreed , but on sale-or-return terms . |
| 20 | Two cultures rarely understand each other , especially when one is waxing dominant . |
| 21 | On the following day the Senate was compelled to " freeze " the legislation after opposition deputies successfully appealed to the Supreme Court to block Senate ratification of the law until a ruling had been made on the constitutional legality of the AP 's parliamentary conduct during the lower house vote . |
| 22 | Allocation of resources — Resourcing was a matter of concern , both the resources devoted to care programming and the way in which care programmes effectively allocate resources . |
| 23 | The EC is spending large sums on projects expressly designed to support cattle farmers : building refrigerated abattoirs in Burkina Faso , improving cattle breeds in Mali and fattening cattle in northern Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana . |
| 24 | The uncertainty of such stop-go policies arguably reduced business confidence and discouraged investment . |
| 25 | Two cyclists eventually stopped and went off to raise the alarm . |
| 26 | Later the system was stabilised and the present continents slowly built up and extended by plutonism . |
| 27 | For decades during the twentieth century it was heresy to give any credit to the ideas of Alfred Wegener ( 1880–1930 ) , and others before him , that the continents slowly moved in different directions over the surface of the globe . |
| 28 | The mine roads eventually went out several kms under the sea and in the 1920's , the 1,000 employees produced over 250,000 tons a year . |
| 29 | It might finally be observed that in its short life , Article 100A , which derogates from Article 100 by allowing the Council to act by qualified majority in co-operation with the European Parliament in order to complete the internal market , has already been used to anticipate new competences expressly recognized in the Maastricht amendments : two of these relate to the encouragement of ‘ trans-European networks ’ and measures in the sphere of energy , yet Article 100A had already been used to enact Council Directive 90/547 on the transit of electricity through transmission grids and Council Directive 91/287 on the transit of natural gas through grids . |
| 30 | If they sell , they acknowledge a loss which may exceed the discount that secured creditors eventually have to accept . |