Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in snowy weather that owners of buildings roofed in this way most regret this form of construction because wind-blown powdery snow easily enters narrow chinks in the roof surface , and where there is no underslating felt ( as applies in most old constructions ) , the snow settles between the ceiling joists , later melting and saturating ceilings and other internal finishes . |
| 2 | For if you are not exercising aerobically using some form of whole body continuous movement ( brisk walking , jogging , cycling ) for 30 minutes at least three to four times a week , then by definition , you are sedentary . |
| 3 | Clovers helped remove the fallow stage from cultivation , effectively bringing more land into use — as in the ‘ Norfolk Four Course ’ ( wheat , turnips , barley , and clover ) advocated but not invented by Viscount Townshend of Raynham ( ‘ Turnip ’ Townshend , 1674–1738 ) . |
| 4 | My final point relates to the penalties that will be employed when North sea workers are eventually given some sort of legislative protection against victimisation . |
| 5 | Mills and Boon , however , rigorously deny any charge of producing ‘ formula fiction ’ ; their instructions to potential authors , as they insist , and as some critics have noted with surprise , add up to little more than an encouragement to ‘ freshness and originality of approach ’ . |
| 6 | It is not proposed to include such software in the current program , but rather to treat this instrument as an intelligent data gatherer and use mainframe facilities to assess the results . |
| 7 | This change of diet should not , of course , be attempted by diabetics except under medical supervision , and so far no juvenile diabetics have been treated successfully using this type of diet . |
| 8 | With 7,000 students spread across three campuses , King 's badly needs more space on its historic Strand site . |
| 9 | However , since the private person has chosen to deal in commercial goods , ( and presumably has some expertise in relation to the subject matter of the contract ) such exclusion is more likely to be reasonable than if consumer goods were the subject matter of the contract , and hence the transaction were a consumer transaction governed by s 6(2) . |
| 10 | As for the class of goods , where commercial goods are concerned the party acquiring them presumably has some expertise in relation to them which gives him the capability to assess their quality or to understand if he needs to call in an expert assessor , so that less protection should be required in this case . |
| 11 | A speechless ape presumably has some sort of feeling for the opposition " I " / " Other " , perhaps even for its expanded version " We " / " They " , but the still more grandiose " Natural " / " Supernatural " ( " Man " / " God " ) could only occur within a linguistic frame . |
| 12 | It can , however , have the additional effect of producing large parties that could then effectively win any encounter with males of an opposed community . |
| 13 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 14 | Nigel said ‘ Your place or mine ? ’ when they 'd both duly impressed each other with lies . |
| 15 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 16 | Thinly veiled portraits of actual people in fiction vastly outnumber this type of unlucky strike . |
| 17 | Norm referenced measures of learning , always a dominant , presently an overbearing , influence on the education scene , do little to encourage this approach to human development in both student and teacher populations . |
| 18 | Any wood block floor will eventually need some maintenance by being sanded down and resealed . |
| 19 | The King asked whether it would be approved , and Baldwin skilfully replied that it would not be acceptable to the country , thereby keeping any question of the Government 's own veto in the background . |
| 20 | Vegetable juice is even less desirable , and the resulting plant print rarely has any relevance to the text Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave us a gentle reminder in Aurora Leigh : |
| 21 | The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value . |
| 22 | Japan experienced a brief period of European contact in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , but in 1639 the government of Japan , the Tokugawa ( Edo ) Bakufu , effectively severed all contact with the West . |
| 23 | By contrast , the rational expectations hypothesis , when applied to the theory of inflation , appeared to indicate that money would be neutral in the short run also , thereby denying any role to policy activism . |
| 24 | UI expects a fully-converged ABI to result over time , which will eventually include some form of requirement for a common development environment . |
| 25 | An explanation needs to be made to these pupils as to the benefits of providing their own paints and thereby gaining more experience with a wider range of materials . |
| 26 | Over the longer period changes in population , income etc. shift this relationship in measurable ways . |
| 27 | Kubrick can posit only a mystical promise of future ( individual ) development because he fundamentally has little faith in human nature or society , unlike Clarke ( most sci-fi writers seem to have a deep-down streak of optimism , even when as downbeat as Philip K Dick or as ironic as Kurt Vonnegut ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Is n't it totally unsatisfactory that the Health Secretary has apparently given more weight to the wishes of the health authority than the parents of the children ? ’ |
| 29 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 30 | For that reason alone , the Communist party saw that it must either stop Mosley now or else perhaps lose all chance of a populist vote in its own support . |