Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History students who appear to be confused about why they are studying the subject do little to encourage others to study it as a full GCSE subject or at an advanced level . |
| 2 | During this time it travels only five times its own length , and the widely spaced propellers allow it to turn in its own length at low speed . |
| 3 | Many of the most highly regarded chefs choose their menus after seeing for themselves which the freshest foods are at the market ! |
| 4 | Long shuddering sobs shook her slight frame as she poured out her hurt and misery . |
| 5 | Now when you look down the microscope through the graticule what one sees is twenty five randomly spaced dots overlying your er section . |
| 6 | From the twentieth century point of view it can be appreciated that naturally occurring compounds contain what , from the point of view of theoretical chemistry , is an arbitrary and theoretically uninteresting mixture of isotopes so that , as F. Soddy remarked , the painstaking endeavour of the nineteenth century chemists ‘ appears as of as little interest and significance as the determination of the average weight of a collection of bottles , some of them full and some of them more or less empty ’ . |
| 7 | Just as enclosures divided the countryside with hedges , so toll gates divided its roads and a communal institution was replaced by a cash-based one . |
| 8 | How exactly might mutually resembling individuals find themselves clustered together , in local aggregations ? |
| 9 | In a host of well illustrated books and in the displays erected in the great museums , the fossil record was used to support a theory in which evolution worked through a series of progressive episodes , each sending out waves of new and more highly organized creatures to displace their now-stagnant predecessors . |
| 10 | ( The French , being Socialist , have to train girls to cook , but being chauvinists , only let males do it for real . |
| 11 | You 'd think people only bought newspapers to see what 's happened to the Feltons . |
| 12 | Then it was like an out-of-control lorry coming straight at you and knowing you 've only got seconds to make your peace . |
| 13 | Their behaviour must also be frequent or serious enough to justify attempts to alter it by deliberate management action . |
| 14 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |
| 15 | They were eminently suited to the work and knew their ship and its equipment well enough to keep things going which also suited the administration at Headquarters . |
| 16 | Shocked old-guard MPs , who had imagined they were in cushy seats for life , suddenly found Right-Ons dominating their constituency parties with a potent mixture of brow-beating and attrition . |
| 17 | The extending of the charges will only encourage cyclists to take their bikes by other means , thus losing revenue for the railways . |
| 18 | Since tandems etc are at present being carried , and there are no substantial proposed changes to the rolling stock , the ban can not be justified by space constraints.The extending of the charges will only encourage cyclists to take their bikes by other means , thus losing revenue for the railways . |
| 19 | What we 've , so what it means is we have to make it clear to those people who are authorised to sign off invoices that their signature not only authorises accounts to pay it but also signifies that the delivery has been checked and is erm , is adequate . |
| 20 | ‘ Clive ? ’ he asked , obviously awaiting orders to hurt someone . |
| 21 | The Penan of Sarawak , the Batak of the Philippines and the Kayapo of Amazonia have all resisted moves to take their lands , so that the they can hold onto their traditional and successful way of life . |
| 22 | In early days the judiciary greatly encouraged litigants to use it and the number of civil applications rose from 356 in 1981 to 1580 in 1989 , the House of Lords having ruled in 1983 that those seeking redress for an infringement of public law rights must proceed by way of this remedy only . |
| 23 | This well-styled jacket , incorporating Karrimor 's now familiar K2 logo , is at the pricey end of the market but has enough winning features to guarantee it 'll be popular . |
| 24 | Just as with a cash ratio , the authorities could impose a statutory liquidity ratio or they could merely allow banks to set their own prudent liquidity ratio . |
| 25 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 26 | Kramarae and Treichler quote Rebecca West 's witty remark , that she is n't sure what a feminist is , she only knows men call her that whenever she does or says anything that differentiates her from a doormat . |
| 27 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 28 | It is not the case that high degrees of party unity are displayed in the House of Commons because the whips ( those members of the government responsible for the passage of government legislation through both houses ) mercilessly compel members to betray their consciences and constituencies in the cause of party dogma . |
| 29 | Commonly , there are covariations of two or more measures , such as mean size and sorting , which Griffiths ( 1967 ) illustrated as being hydraulically controlled , so that in all environments the best sorted sediments had their mean sizes in the fine sand category . |
| 30 | Shareholders , however , own the firm and generally appoint managers to run it , and as residual claimants they will want to ensure that the value of the firm is maximized . |