Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 2 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 3 | Her hair was drawn back , skilfully arranged to fall in loose waves from a gold clasp . |
| 4 | It is such a cohesive , well-oiled unit that the band rarely has to call for outside assistance . |
| 5 | Although a backbencher he is currently the politician the voters most want to see as prime minister . |
| 6 | Slight and in his mid-twenties , he moved with energetic nervousness , his sharp eyes darting in all directions , as if on constant guard against a knife in the back — a worrying habit which I have since come to associate with compulsive back-stabbers . |
| 7 | ‘ There was no need to think she 'd noticed anything , and whoever he was , he was n't mad enough to go looking for extra murders . |
| 8 | ‘ British industry is far more productive , far more competitive , better managed and with better industrial relations , in a better tax climate than at the beginning of the 1980s , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ so it is better placed to benefit from economic recovery . ’ |
| 9 | Here again there is a question of balance : if society has democratically determined that taxes shall be collected and revenues so received spent in certain ways , non-payment of taxes is punishable even if the defaulter is objecting on conscientious grounds to aspects of staff spending — on arms , for example . |
| 10 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 11 | As an adult garment printed at actual size will cover many sheets of A4 paper , you will probably only want to print at actual size if the print is to be used in conjunction with a charting device or if you design intarsia . |
| 12 | In many service businesses there is a growing number of people who do not necessarily want to progress in traditional career terms . |
| 13 | Directors will only act according to professional standards of behaviour and the range of decisions available to them will be indicated by their own expertise . |
| 14 | A church setting would undoubtedly have been more atmospheric than the shocking pink of the BBC Concert Hall , but then listeners to the broadcast will only need to worry about aural aesthetics . |
| 15 | Any software claiming to be pan-European obviously needs to comply with major accounting standards such as the 4th and 7th EC directives , for example , and would benefit from links to online databases providing up-to-date information on legislation across the EC . |
| 16 | He climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid only to find inscribed in black letters " a certain Buffard , 79 Rue Saint-Martin , wallpaper manufacturer . " |
| 17 | If the driver suddenly needs to call for extra revs , he can overrule the settings at any time by pushing the foot pedal . |
| 18 | She obviously wants to graduate to serious emotional drama , but all she does is turn interesting subjects ( in this case the buried feminist history of women 's baseball ) into mush . |
| 19 | Auntie Nellie only came to visit on special occasions so I expect Dad must have written to invite her to the wedding . |
| 20 | Fourthly that each child on that action plan would have outlined where they would hope to go and following that have found out what the requirements are , the possible pathway through and if they are n't sure , I was gon , what I was gon na ask was , if I could have a careers teacher in to talk to form about possible pathway through , i in the general terms so they 've got these four outcomes there . |
| 21 | SPEED Only threatened to blossom after indifferent start . |
| 22 | Within a specific environment problems may be solved or they may only minimised depending upon external constraints imposed . |
| 23 | I think we 've all grown used to small loasses of fruit and vegetables but not on this scale . |
| 24 | At the time of manufacture the foil would obviously become mixed with other materials . |
| 25 | If men naturally enjoy mathematical stimuli more than social stimuli then I would have thought they were at least equally well equipped to deal with the socially isolating position of working at home — and possibly better equipped to deal with everyday geometrical shapes such as vegetables , kitchen sinks and washing machines . |
| 26 | You know , you 've only got to go to Eastern Europe and China , you know , these places have been completely erm , insulated from any world trade . |
| 27 | well you , you 've only got to get to subsid science |
| 28 | Individual property owners in cities have long had to conform to legal controls , but planning as a more widespread activity dates only from the mid-twentieth century ( Hall 1982 ) . |
| 29 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 30 | Restoration here has not only led to the repair of townscape , it has also created jobs for skilled craftsmen ( conservation creates more employment per pound than new build ) , and led to much needed housing for homeless and disadvantaged people . |