Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This is to be distinguished from bribing , where the treat is offered up-front or mixed with the meal as a lure to entice the dog to eat .
2 Physical activities can also sometimes cause difficulties since restricted visual fields can make it difficult for a child to catch a ball , wield a bat effectively or aim at a goal .
3 Expenditure is permitted only where authorized by a candidate , a candidate 's election agent , or a person authorized in writing by the agent .
4 Nothing is worse than feeling screwed up inside or suffering from a sense of utter emptiness and loss of interest or emotion .
5 Now , if she were seated in her old place , wedged between the window and Penini , with his mother opposite encircled in her husband 's arms , or , if the men rode alongside or travelled on the outside of the carriage , sitting with her mistress while Pen and Flush lay on the other seat — now she would feel stifled , trapped , longing to get out .
6 In control conditions children worked alone , either seeing one view only or walking round the table with the experimenter to see both .
7 When comparing fractions some pupils may compare numerators only or select as the largest fraction the one which has the largest numerator and largest denominator .
8 You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting .
9 In a broader sense it includes all relatives living together or accepted as a family , including adopted persons .
10 Relevant statutory provisions may be grouped together or scattered through the judgment .
11 In this new , commercial market a major sales point is the energy saving that is possible with central control of heating and lighting , either manually or according to a timed program .
12 Multiple regression analysis showed no increase in the correlation when the villous height/crypt depth ratio and intraepithelial lymphocyte count together where compared with the cellobiose/ mannitol % ( multiple r=0.50 ) .
13 In both processes , and especially that relating to the budget , immense power lies with the Senators and the Representatives on the relevant committees and subcommittees .
14 For the pulsing of the walls was slow and vegetal and the pillars soared and rose in a tracery of veins and she was in a hollow in some living thing with no way out above or below nor escape to the sides .
15 ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead .
16 For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect !
17 So whatever level of runner you are you ca n't do better than get into the Mizuno powerhouse .
18 To understand the importance of these procedural developments , we can hardly do better than conclude with a comparison : Blackstone 's graphic and dismaying picture of the damage being done in England by entails .
19 Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] .
20 As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone .
21 All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral .
22 I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are .
23 Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic .
24 Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her .
25 I can do no better than to quote from the trust application document .
26 She knew better than to walk around the front of the house .
27 It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday .
28 Zooming is carried out by repeating pixel values , so that zooming by a factor of four implies that each pixel value in the memory bank or banks is repeated four times , and each line of the image is also repeated four times .
29 Er er well the engine which should have pulled , the post train , broke down so that went to the works and the engine which took its replacement
30 So that viewed from the purl side it 's the opposite way round to the mylar sheet , while on the knit side it 's the same way round as the mylar sheet of course .
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