Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not sure how that fits in with costings like you know , but you know what I mean . |
| 2 | We do n't need that to go out to clients . |
| 3 | It was also over 50 per cent more than that laid down in codes for the relief of famine as a basic subsistence diet ( Kynch 1989 ) . |
| 4 | He is due to report back to police in March . |
| 5 | Make better use of your base cabinets by fixing slide-out towel racks to the doors , and by installing swivel storage shelves to do away with all that groping around for things at the back . |
| 6 | Because of the accident that , in the early days , a high proportion of the best anthropological field research wan carried out in societies which were made up of exogamous unilineal descent groups , many textbooks give the impression that unilineal descent is the normal pattern in primitive societies and hence that the distinction between kinship ( of common substance ) and affinity is normally clear-out and unambiguous . |
| 7 | Art that is too much tied to the field of power has little to worry about from avant-gardes . |
| 8 | This led on to contracts for shipping grain to Flanders . |
| 9 | The shock of the change of circumstances was sufficiently numbing to dampen any inclination to run riot , particularly after the painful build up of events which led to the final arrest . |
| 10 | Th the crime problem , as we 've already said is n't too , too great here but er nevertheless it 's important that we , we er keep our eyes open and try and keep crime out because some of these people that erm are living in the bigger cities that are criminals are now starting to discover that it 's easier to come out to places like Farnsfield and commit the crime , because we , we 're not experienced at it . |
| 11 | Still more are the public fed up with escapes which succeed , and they will be appalled to hear from my right hon. Friend that the cost of damage to our prisons last year exceeded £100 million . |
| 12 | All of this racketing around with has-beens and yet-to-bes , filming on rented sets in disused warehouses , ought to have been doomed to failure , even laughed off the screen . |
| 13 | Whether this added up in terms of cost per job was another matter . |
| 14 | This flowed through to earnings per share , up a half at 19.6p and shareholders receive a 25 per cent increase in the interim dividend to 2.7p . |
| 15 | If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months . |
| 16 | Can I just say from a practical point of view , primary classes are fairly static sort of places , you 've got the teacher in the class all day , and if they say well let's have a micro in our classroom today that can be done , whereas a secondary teacher tends to wander round the school with a load of books under one arm and a bag of equipment under the other arm , and they 've also got to carry a micro round or move a micro from one classroom to another — it 's physically difficult , so in practice the primary teachers seem to find it easier to fit in with micros . |
| 17 | Arguably this cuts down on women 's contact with other people . |
| 18 | There were long streaks of stickiness on the floor to which ash had stuck , glasses with remnants of drink , some with cigarette stubs disintegrating in them , some tipped over in puddles of booze , plates with remnants of food and cigarettes that had smouldered out among them . |
| 19 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 20 | The older person should be treated with respect and should feel free to keep up with friends and have them home . |
| 21 | erm I remember a few years ago when there was a great panicky shutting down of teachers ' training colleges . |
| 22 | This shoaling in like sizes is established at a very early age , and there is good reason for it . |
| 23 | While most people look forward to summer — for others it means an uncomfortable round of runny noses , sweaty itches and nasty rashes — some brought on by allergies . |
| 24 | Croatia and the JNA late on Aug. 27 agreed to a new ceasefire after talks in Brioni between Tudjman , Defence Minister Kadijevic and Chief of Staff Gen. Adzic but this broke down within hours as fighting resumed in Vukovar . |
| 25 | So do not be afraid to hold on to impressions that logically seem to cancel one another out . |
| 26 | This boiling down of groups into their respective ethnic essences is clearly congruent with the nationalist concerns of the right , but it is also sanctioned by the antiracist orthodoxy of the left and by many voices from within the black communities themselves which have needed no prompting to develop their own fascination with ethnic differences and thus reduce political definitions of ‘ race ’ to a narcissistic celebration of culture and Identity . |
| 27 | But anyway this went on for weeks and weeks , and I kept on it down the lift shaft . |
| 28 | And this went on for years this ? |
| 29 | This shuffling around of genes greatly complicates the analysis of evolution . |
| 30 | This squeezing in of lymphocytes and blood vessels is itself very destructive to the normal architecture of the tissues , and in rheumatoid arthritis even erodes the bone until the joint is completely destroyed , causing crippling deformities . |