Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you intend tackling long trips in remote places , searching for a special fuel or type of gas cartridge can be a fruitless exercise . |
| 2 | Mr Brady does not , in fact , give a fig for global perspective or , for that matter , the dollar 's value on the foreign exchanges ; he wants further cuts in American interest rates . |
| 3 | Archaism was the fashion of the day : the Asiatic Greek traveller Pausanias roamed Greece , noting the state of preservation of Archaic and Classical originals missed by Roman looters , including indiscriminately works in precious materials and venerated wooden idols . |
| 4 | Hell , Doc , your packagin' gets better and better , but what you put inside stinks to high heaven , you know . |
| 5 | To allege that a distinction between rulers and ruled always exists in large and complex societies does not really say very much beyond the fact ( which is not disputed , except by certain anarchists ) that such societies can not be run by everyone simultaneously . |
| 6 | With government borrowing having soared to £28 billion this year , and underlying concern that public finances are in a worse state than has been acknowledged , Mr Portillo 's priority will be to curb further increases in public expenditure . |
| 7 | The Petroleum sub-sector began the decade in the doldrums , having lost much of its traffic due to reduced demand and surrendered further flows to long-distance pipelines . |
| 8 | The lack of specificity of faecal occult blood testing also results in large numbers of unnecessary colonic evaluations , adding greatly to the cost of such programmes . |
| 9 | No , that policy you 've got there relates to used vehicles and what I 'm saying this that particular policy can be issued on vehicles above five years and sixty thousand miles . |
| 10 | MAGAZINE publishing is bristling with talk of ‘ shelf wars ’ , as companies haggle with newsagents over which titles get best positions on overcrowded racks . |
| 11 | Set aside times for positive listening practice . |
| 12 | The ways in which old working class identity is re-formed still relies on cultural forms . |
| 13 | Quality teaching often leads to striking conclusions that call for what might be best described as an ‘ intensification of activity ’ at crucial periods . |
| 14 | Each new financial futures exchange initially concentrates on local cash market instruments as a basis for its product range . |
| 15 | good , that ties in with , you know , what we know actually happens in real life . |
| 16 | Each of the six songs aired tonight moves through repetitive , bass-heavy passages , seductive segments in which Linda steers the band into more melodic territory and shocking moments when power chords suddenly cut through the mesmeric grooves and things take on an atmosphere of nervy unpredictability . |
| 17 | Costa and Costa1 argue that word processing programs on microcomputers " have a way of transforming even computerphobes into dedicated believers of the " how did I ever live without it " variety " and , such is the difference in quality of output between documents produced on a word processor and those handwritten or typed on a conventional typewriter , that school librarians , teachers and pupils quickly become convinced of the need for and extensive uses of such programs . |
| 18 | Pointless VII , 6 is a major Ben face route involving long runouts on thin ice with poor belays . |
| 19 | A TERRIBLE shock awaits many when they return to New York or London — their hard-won knowledge of Japanese business methods elicits only yawns in top-ranking Western firms . |
| 20 | This , in itself , ought to quieten speculation about a Loch Ness monster ; the water 's reputation for healing clearly belongs to ancient traditions , and when a place so powerfully atmospheric generates one legend , it is surely capable of throwing up several more . |
| 21 | Once in , the pain subsiding , they very deliberately move around so that the two lines are elsewhere — and what you are reading now looks like basic Sanskrit . |
| 22 | If it can be demonstrated beyond doubt that a ray of light passing close to the sun is deflected in a curved path , then it is not the case that light necessarily travels in straight lines . |
| 23 | Janis Kounellis is still to be seen at Lelong , showing early lithographs in small editions of twenty-one impressions . |
| 24 | Japan 's ruling and opposition parties have both put forward plans for political reform , which include a shift towards a first-past-the-post electoral system . |
| 25 | The rising at Abingdon in 1431 ( with offshoots in the Midlands and London ) , which contemporaries associated with Lollardy , although on somewhat tenuous grounds , was undoubtedly anti-clerical , and some rebels seem to have put forward plans for ecclesiastical disestablishment . |
| 26 | There was virtually no support in Sussex for the French Revolution when it broke out in 1789 , and the wars which followed produced a widespread patriotic fervour which was matched by an equal growth in exploitation and popular desperation as the twenty years of conflict had deeper affects on local economic life . |
| 27 | Branding also occurs in certain consumer services , such as transport — Blue Riband , Economy , Four Star , Ambassador are all titles that are , or have been , used to differentiate between levels of service . |
| 28 | Each piece quoted here ends with new material , in each case giving added force and brilliance to the ending of operatic arias : |
| 29 | Title to the shares specified then passes by manual delivery of the warrant , which is a negotiable instrument . |
| 30 | It would be wrong , however , to dismiss completely advances in productivity-enhancing research which can be applied to steep-sloped and marginal areas . |