Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap . |
| 2 | The mere existence of national , sexual and racial oppression does not refute historical materialism , but rather constitutes its explanandum . |
| 3 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 4 | The terms of this order are to govern any contract between the Buyer and Seller and shall prevail over any terms put forward by the Seller , unless the Buyer expressly agrees to them in writing . |
| 5 | The drafter may try to protect his/her client in the battle of the forms by including an appropriate provision in the terms such as : The terms of this order are to govern any contract between the Buyer and Seller and shall prevail over any terms put forward by the Seller , unless the Buyer expressly agrees to them in writing . |
| 6 | The ‘ spiritual sense ’ view of faith has given rise to a form of spiritual elitism in which the believer welcomes a position in which he or she has no common ground with the unbeliever , and thereby turns the sort of dismissive ‘ religious language is nonsense ’ approach of Ayer into a welcome acceptance of the divide between men and women of reason on the one hand , and those with faith on the other . |
| 7 | It was like all that ego-building which eventually turns into a monster . |
| 8 | The forward movement of the boat eventually turns the flies ; and it is generally just as the flies begin to turn that a fish will take . |
| 9 | The foliage emerges purple but eventually turns green . |
| 10 | For the new system to be introduced properly involves a change of constitution and a further vote . |
| 11 | It is the debate about the forces which determine this equilibrium which fundamentally separates the various schools of thought in macroeconomics . |
| 12 | It works at a warm temperature and vigorously turns the sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide , producing at the same time ripe fruity aromas that add to the pleasure of ale drinking . |
| 13 | The putting on involves ‘ speaking truthfully ’ . |
| 14 | A principal character in Neville Shute 's epic tale A Town Like Alice somewhere remarks , apropos the outback , that artists cam up from the south to try and paint it . |
| 15 | Everyday experience is generally highly predictable and so rarely offers such surprises . |
| 16 | erm The social man , Proust says , rarely offers a key to the creative personality , and he 's anxious to keep a distinction between these two things , and I shall try to do something the same . |
| 17 | Onward goes the pilgrim band … ’ |
| 18 | Because it was the last one left and we did n't want to get another bearded collie because it would when our old bearded collie eventually goes we did n't want it to remind us too much so we said we 'd go completely different . |
| 19 | He rarely veers away from the subject of relationships ( ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ , |
| 20 | The unmotive you have vaguely hit on turns out to be that the fellow was obsessively jealous of his wife who was , as would be evident to everybody else , so obsessively faithful to him that no question of jealousy could arise . |
| 21 | The black population , thus , effectively constitutes an underclass , placed in a structurally different location from the white working class . |
| 22 | Not the least of the memorable impressions of the evening is Robert Stephens 's fascinating Falstaff , a guiltily grinning fellow who brings to bear those wonderfully lugubrious vowels of his , swigging sack , emitting little laughs and sly asides . |
| 23 | I kept doing these funny little laughs all the way home and while I was developing and printing the film . |
| 24 | There is no crew as such because the Doom Diver effectively launches himself , although it is assumed that there are a number of Doom Divers ready and willing to step forward and be catapulted into the air . |
| 25 | Patients presenting with metastasis of unknown origin have a mean life expectancy of only four months so most diagnostic methods occupy a large proportion of the patient 's remaining life and identification of the primary site only rarely influences the choice of treatment . |
| 26 | The written press provides back-up , analysis and in-depth knowledge but rarely encourages or inspires people . |
| 27 | And slowly goes on growing up . |
| 28 | A MODEL housewife slowly goes to pieces as one disaster follows another in Carol and Company : Diary Of A Really , Really Mad Housewife ( BBC1 , 11.05pm ) , a one-act comedy starring Carol Burnett . |
| 29 | Carol A MODEL housewife slowly goes to pieces as one disaster follows another in Carol and Company : Diary Of A Really , Really Mad Housewife ( BBC1 , 11.05pm ) , a one-act comedy starring Carol Burnett . |
| 30 | L 178 , p. 5 ) , which , subject to some limited and temporary derogations , provides for the total abolition of ‘ restrictions on movements of capital taking place between persons resident in member states ’ ( article 1 ) , including ‘ direct investments on national territory by non-residents ’ and ‘ acquisition by non-residents of domestic securities not dealt in on a stock exchange ’ ( see points I.A. and III.A. 3 of Annex I to the Directive ) , which are the operations to which the Commission expressly refers . |