Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the groups of invertebrates worst affected were those that prey on others , the grazers on plants such as algae , and the so-called detritus collectors . |
| 2 | What Stirling instinctively realized was that the German and Italian air forces posed a very real threat to an advance by the Eighth Army and that if those enemy aircraft could be neutralized on the ground , the offensive would stand a much greater chance of success . |
| 3 | At present , the reins of central control in management development have been slackened , and Health Authorities locally have been freer to decide for themselves . |
| 4 | His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased . |
| 5 | Stainless steel cleaners : Many products so described are polishes or include substances which may leave undesirable residues on food contact surfaces . |
| 6 | The kind of variation revealed by occasional spellings as primary evidence does not always fit comfortably into the standard historical linguistic mould , and so it has often seemed convenient to ignore it or explain it away , sometimes on the grounds that variability of the kind apparently attested is ‘ impossible ’ . |
| 7 | Ask a neighbour to collect your post , water your plants ( dead plants or plants that are regularly on windowsills suddenly removed are tell-tale signs ) and perhaps to draw your curtains every night . |
| 8 | The collocations so formed are therefore representative of such financial material and hence will be more specific than those from the general dictionary . |
| 9 | The value of this constant has been chosen so that the lists of collocations so produced are comparable in size with the definitions taken from machine-readable dictionaries . |
| 10 | The results after small bowel grafting alone have been encouraging . |
| 11 | the fact that Freud linked the two things together , the very title of the book shows the evil th that group psychology and ego psychology were intimately intimately connected with one another and er the central idea was that as Dean rightly says is that in a group the leader or the leading principal , and it does n't always have to be a person , although usually a person plays , kind of represents the , the er the leader in the way that the Pope represents Christ for example , you know Christ ca n't be here right now , he 's doing other things elsewhere I presume . |
| 12 | The kind of structure the authors mostly discuss is to do with how to move from one dramatic experience into another in a way that tightens the pupils ' grip on the central issue . |
| 13 | The various highways and public transport requirements can be covered by negative conditions i.e. no houses should be occupied until the specified roadworks etc. have been completed to the satisfaction of the Director of Highways . |
| 14 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 15 | In general practice the type of psychologist most used is the chartered clinical psychologist , many of whom have had specific training in psychotherapy . |
| 16 | As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services . |
| 17 | It occurred to her that in any other circumstances the only description for what she and Dr Neil constantly did was flirting . |
| 18 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 19 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 20 | The horse fair had been abandoned , the stalls cleared and the shops deserted . |
| 21 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 22 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 23 | Taylor , Walton and Young ( 1973 ) were highly critical of this example of behaviourist imperialism and claimed that the exclusion of all reference to subjective mental events which the take-over bid necessarily entailed was entirely alien to the whole spirit of differential association . |
| 24 | Crewe as a previous reply rightly said are running away with the 3rd division , so a 3–1 defeat is a good result considering the mauling some other Premiership clubs got from the likes of Peterborough and Stockport . |
| 25 | The revenue so generated is used to service the pipeline 's project debt . |
| 26 | Gastric secretion thus corrected is referred to as Vg and is measured in ml/h . |
| 27 | In a later case in which service had been attempted in Belgium , the Belgian Central Authority certified that service had proved impossible , the defendant not having been found at the address given . |
| 28 | The Jubilee Line is vital to Docklands construction firms as 40 per cent of the offices already built are still vacant . |
| 29 | Those animals not ransomed were usually sold cheaply to cultivators or butchers who knew full well the origins of the animal . |
| 30 | But the relationships thus expressed are multifaceted ; they stretch outward through the whole society , they are not simply domestic . |