Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxine , the receptionist , runs a small shop and tries to keep the sand at bay as our sailors trudge it into the bar in exchange for that badly needed cool drink . |
| 2 | Within that slowly changing real total , major changes of pattern will , as I have already said , take place under the pressure of changes in medical practice and changes in medical fashion , as well as more subtle social and environmental changes . |
| 3 | Gradually the business community as a whole will accept that such service industries , in spite of the constant winning and losing of clients , are here to stay and probably are a permanent part of that constantly expanding commercial sector , communications . |
| 4 | We have separate custodians , the Bank of Scotland are doing this and er I think er having a separate organisation outside is er an important first step , but you 've then got to tie up who gives them instructions and that obviously needs careful thought , needs to be done through the trustees . |
| 5 | have n't just to literally lie back there and the man says what happens , when it happens , and they 're to do as they 're told sort of thing because that obviously develops sexual abuse , women being raped , and attitudes that lead towards these things . |
| 6 | He really was brought up in his tracks , and said , when he brought her home , well if that only made one person think , it 's been worth it . |
| 7 | But that only posed another question : Why so frightened ? |
| 8 | Some weeks ago , I went to a most exciting block of modern flats called Waterside Point , near Battersea Bridge , that only opened last year . |
| 9 | He owes his staff , fellow trustees , and the public an unambiguous answer as to whether he or the government was responsible for that disastrously mistaken museological policy . |
| 10 | There 's this little bent old man with a shopping trolley thing and he bashes it into the back of my legs . |
| 11 | The more I thought about it , the more I looked forward to seeing this little known mountainous region , and I had every intention of penetrating at least as far as the Webi Shebeli river . |
| 12 | I do help if I can , but I also point out to them that the help is to members of the ( and I send them details and a membership application form — but this rarely has any effect ; I do n't even get an acknowledgment as a rule ) . |
| 13 | The first objective was to develop a Pinot Noir clone which could resist the frosts in the Marne valley and thus enable vineyards in this predominantly Pinot Meunier area to be replanted with a more noble variety . |
| 14 | In addition , there are some industrially based transnational union organizations , for example the International Metalworkers Federation , and the International Union of Food and Allied Workers ' Associations , and these have been involved in genuine transnational labour struggles , and have gained some short term victories . |
| 15 | This effectively disallows any subject being discussed at an Apex conference . |
| 16 | This effectively allows any presentation graphics program on the Macintosh to talk to the professional film recorders such as the QCR and beyond by converting the PICT files generated on the Macintosh into the native language of the film recorder . |
| 17 | This effectively destroyed any chance of progress at a crucial stage in the negotiations , it meant the collapse of the so-called ‘ Finlandisation ’ option . |
| 18 | Markets have been buoyant following a thirteen percent gain on the Niki Index , it 's the largest ever one day gain , though this merely reversed last week 's dramatic falls . |
| 19 | Admittedly , the lowest levels of the overlying limestone date back to the Eocene , but this merely proves long-continued subsidence : horizons of land fauna indicate interruption by periods of emergence . |
| 20 | As regards the police , should the publication of racist statements like the unofficial communique be made a disciplinary offence , or would this merely strengthen rank-and-file resistance to the implementation of antiracist policies within the force ? |
| 21 | This apparently had little impact on the extent of these intra- and extra-mural zones , though it may have encouraged the enhanced development of the central area in the third and fourth centuries . |
| 22 | This apparently clearcut technical job is in reality far more complicated because wastes vary so widely , may change their nature ( and risks ) during their existence , are handled by many different people and firms ; and often ‘ wastes ’ contain valuable goods that may be recovered . |
| 23 | Eighteen percent of their mines have this so called deep cut system , but has more than fifty percent of all the fatal accidents in those eighteen percent of the mines . |
| 24 | The Bank publishes the total amount of this so called late assistance , although not the terms on which it has been granted . |
| 25 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 26 | He was so moved by the sufferings of the wounded at the battle of Solferino ( the Lombard village where the French and Sardinians defeated the Austrians in June 1859 ) that he published a book urging the formation of permanent voluntary aid societies to succour the wounded in time of war , and this so caught international imagination that in 1863 , sixteen European nations met at a conference in Geneva to launch the plan . |
| 27 | The Rheidol trains are smart and well cared for while the mix of locomotive liveries has brought some much needed added interest . |
| 28 | This all has great relevance to the regular runner as you will soon see . |
| 29 | But while some obviously see social support as something easily recognisable , emphasising that the supporter must actually be present or accessible during stressful episodes ( e.g. Cassel , 1976 ) , others , like Cobb , conceive of support in less down-to-earth terms . |
| 30 | This only reached statistical significance for stearic acid ( C18:0 ) and long chain n6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in ulcerative colitis and for arachidonic acid ( C20:4n6 ) in Crohn 's disease . |