Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 General theories are formulated about supposedly universal topics , for instance , about attribution of emotions , or friendship formation or schematic information-processing , etc .
2 And there is also the crucial issue of political financing which we 've heard about already this morning , and which is such a vexed question in French Spanish , and Italian politics now everybody wants to see more money coming from an expanded , er , political membership .
3 Love fell out of love with the four-ball format , saying : ‘ We 'd heard about how slow play was , but we did n't believe it .
4 Whatever secret he had been hoping to confide on that short walk to the House would remain for ever unspoken .
5 It would be the end of all her high ambitions , and though the world would not greatly suffer thereby — for by now she had lost all confidence that anything she might say would alter the course of things — that crisis which was privately her own would remain for ever unresolved .
6 This first-hand testimony , delivered with appropriate scholarly documentation , helped restore to the so called ‘ primitive ’ his full humanity and dignity ; it became intellectually inadmissible for tribesmen to be regarded as museum specimens who would remain for ever wayward children of nature and wards of paternalistic colonialism .
7 Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) .
8 and she 's travelled for about six months of every year since .
9 A great many human societies operate with " cognatic " systems of kinship , in which common ancestry is traced through both male and female links .
10 Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score .
11 Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually .
12 I had to wait for about ten minutes .
13 He had to wait for more congenial work until 1893 , when Mrs Rylands appointed him her librarian .
14 In the 1930's , at a time when many potteries closed down to wait for more favourable conditions to return , the fifth Josiah Wedgwood decided to build a new factory .
15 No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue .
16 New auction records for Malcolm Morley and Julian Schnabel compensate for generally low prices
17 In any branch of government , civil or military , promotion always came easier to a man who could add political interest to ability , and on occasion the active support of a great man could more than compensate for very limited abilities .
18 The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting .
19 Thus in 1786 , on the death of Sir Horace Mann , the British envoy to the grand duke of Tuscany , the post was filled for over six months by his nephew , who had no recognised diplomatic status at all .
20 Equity is important in that it fights for improvements and fairness in pay and working conditions , and with over 44,000 members competing for probably some 5–7,000 jobs in any given working week , it tries to ensure that the work goes to professionally accredited people , those with training or suitable professional experience .
21 No all , all that , all that was going to be done was to see about as far as I 'm aware , the feasibility of get getting one of the Education Officers and one of the
22 Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months .
23 The train stopped for about two minutes .
24 ( 5 ) If the partial offer could result in not less than 30 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained , the offer must state the precise number of shares offered for and may not be declared unconditional as to acceptances unless acceptances are received for not less than that number ( Rule 36.4 ) .
25 That 's probably why she got through so many women .
26 Albert remarks , a touch sniffily : ‘ An evening at the Crazy Horse Saloon will always make for more compulsive viewing than a day in the life of a Benedictine monastery . ’
27 I mean what I would ideally like is the society in which women could be both private and public people , and men too , so men would identify more with relationships in their families and so on and slightly less with work , and women less with the family and more with work , and I think that would make for much greater flexibility all round and I think children would benefit too .
28 The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger .
29 It has been estimated that the amount of fossil fuels that will be consumed between AD 2000 and AD 2050 will be over three times the amount consumed between AD 1 and AD 2000 .
30 He lives , still , in the same Chelsea fiat with its pink and white striped wallpaper , geranium-filled window-boxes , elegant chintzy furniture , and the myriad of expressive original paintings which Joyce and he shared for so many years .
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