Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily he had fallen asleep again before he could find out who was responsible . |
| 2 | The adverbs here and there are often thought of as simple contrasts on a proximal/distal dimension , stretching away from the speaker 's location , as in : ( 72 ) Bring that here and take this there But this is only sometimes so , for although there basically means " distal from speaker 's location at CT " , it can also be used to mean " proximal to addressee at RT " . |
| 3 | There is ample evidence that those ties remain strong even as the character of networks changes in other ways and thus these basic family links continue to be the first line of defence , the more so because other forms of association may weaken . |
| 4 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 5 | The weather forecast for Nottinghamshire all parts will stay dry today and although there 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 6 | All parts will stay dry today and although they 'll still be a good deal of cloud for much of the time some bright or perhaps sunny intervals are possible . |
| 7 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 8 | Nor did the Socialists abandon political appointments ; indeed , the growing number of party activists occupying senior management posts in public enterprises ( see Diario 16 , 30 January 1985 ) illustrated the government 's belief that the introduction of its policies of commercialism was an operation demanding political rather than purely managerial skill . |
| 9 | involves hypothetical rather than real choices . |
| 10 | A report commissioned in March [ see p. 38822 ] published on July 2 described LMX underwriters as showing " seriously flawed " judgment in assessing the risks involved , while the repeated reinsurance risks of other Lloyd 's syndicates meant that risks became concentrated rather than spread across the market . |
| 11 | No , I would say I want the same school , you can do with me what you like , Paul I suggest you do n't throw that away before I loose my temper with you . |
| 12 | Would you like to see that again or do you think you could manage it now ? |
| 13 | We did cover that yesterday because obviously it 's an absolutely crucial point , and when we do a one-day course , we actually make people do one minute against the clock . |
| 14 | These represent times when the land rose , the seas drained away and the sea bed became dry so that the deposits that had accumulated on it were eroded away . |
| 15 | And I became pregnant again and they were falling over themselves to do an abortion for me . |
| 16 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 17 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 18 | About 10000 years ago , over 15 genera of Central American large herbivores became extinct so that the megafauna , previously comparable with that of Africa before the decimations caused by man , largely disappeared . |
| 19 | I realized that sooner or later the immense resources of the Reichmann family would be used to cover all traces of the past . |
| 20 | Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office . |
| 21 | These amount to rich pickings , given that more than 20m British households have a garden . |
| 22 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 23 | Although serfs became free only when they were recruited into the regular army , not when they enrolled in a militia , in the mid-1850s they chose to believe otherwise . |
| 24 | All the children were expected to learn an instrument as they became old enough and were taught by talented Salvationists free of charge . |
| 25 | When recounting this incident in his published memoirs Lehmann added , ‘ But in later years these demonstrations became painful rather than exhilarating to take part in . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ They also believe that … it should be dealt with speedily and its finding made public so that the confidence of the public in its health care will be restored . ’ |
| 27 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |
| 28 | The tapered frame of the original pattern was straightened and made broader so that it became rectangular in design . |
| 29 | Hence the owner also would find it worthwhile acceding to contract 2 rather than contract 1 . |
| 30 | Similarly — and we declare this honestly and proudly — we believe human males have a genetic thirst to flirt . |