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 . |