Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are unemployed or retired tend misleadingly to give their former occupation . |
| 2 | The rich eat too much meat and suffer from chronic constipation , diseases of the bowel , gout , and bladder stones . |
| 3 | It 's estimated we each eat over 100lbs of sugar a year — that 's not-so-sweet calories ! |
| 4 | Withdrawal from the Coalition Government was critical if the process was to go any further : how could Labour make genuinely independent peace overtures to the German socialists while retaining its direct involvement in the Lloyd George Government ? |
| 5 | That 's right sit there . |
| 6 | DIR created by CREATE/DIRECTORY DCL command since , when these are later read from LIFESPAN , it is unlikely that any of the files originally contained in these directories will still be on the system . |
| 7 | What that say again ? |
| 8 | As far as I can see , it is the only policy that will appear in Labour 's manifesto , in that Labour want fully elected police authorities . |
| 9 | If he says no to three fifty say well , just keep it ! |
| 10 | Hardbacks : Some sell well |
| 11 | Some communicate better than others . |
| 12 | Though civilization crumbles , let those who are civilized remain so to the end ! |
| 13 | Few remain however with standing walls and buildings and Rockingham is the only one to have survived in regular use as a family home . |
| 14 | How many seconds will it be before 6 and 12 flash again at the same time ? |
| 15 | But I do n't want you to make the same mistakes the French make here . |
| 16 | Along the path of academic and ecclesiastical preferment , Nathaniel Crewe had served as Rector of Lincoln College from 1668–1672 , and afterwards maintained some influence there . |
| 17 | He had thought she needed a holiday while he was working to get some scratch together , although he had studying to do as well . |
| 18 | The famous dances which make up the Divertissement of Act 2 bring nicely turned , even vivid orchestral playing of great finesse , but again that extra touch of individuality is missing . |
| 19 | There may be some terms however which are obviously conditions , for example , if the contract is for the delivery of a particular make of computer , and the seller attempts to deliver a different make altogether , this would clearly be a breach of condition . |
| 20 | Of the 300,000 women estimated to be doing home-work in Britain today 72 per cent receive less than the legal minimum hourly wage , three quarters of those get 1 ( $1.60 ) or less and some make as little as 20p ( 30 cents ) an hour . |
| 21 | Today we British eat almost twice the recommended daily amount of protein-rich food — our intake is 100–110g , instead of the safer 56g . |
| 22 | Interestingly , most people 's attitudes towards this appear quite accepting ; often , the anticipation of dying seems to be less traumatic than dealing with the problems associated with ageing itself . |
| 23 | Details of this appear below in Chapter 13 . |
| 24 | Graphs 1 and 2 suggest that much lower rates than projected could be likely on past performance . |
| 25 | Some say straight to where most countries in the Third World stand today , with their dog-eat-dog labour relations and ever-widening divide between rich and poor . |
| 26 | I have even heard of some who have helicopters , some say even tanks . ’ |
| 27 | All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling . |
| 28 | Some say diffidently that the ERM has been assaulted by an extraordinary and unrepeatable event ( German unification ) ; or that the underlying imbalances which caused last September 's breakdown ( the pound and some other currencies were over-valued against the D-mark ) have now been sorted out . |
| 29 | He 's probably shacked up with some bint somewhere . |
| 30 | In Britain this shift most obviously took the form of the sale of ( shares in ) state-owned industries and the sale of council houses ; but other manifestations of the shift included provision for the ‘ contracting out ’ by local authorities of various functions to private contractors and moves towards the ‘ privatization ’ of certain types of prison facilities . |