Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mere existence of national , sexual and racial oppression does not refute historical materialism , but rather constitutes its explanandum . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She sits at her dressing-table and vigorously brushes her hair , a mop of copper-coloured curls , natural curls , as tight and springy as coiled steel . |
| 5 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 6 | A smile rarely lights their face when they take your money and hand you the croissant . |
| 7 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 8 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 9 | But what most impresses you about this phenomenal piece of theatre is less its class affiliations than its national attributes : a drama of mutinous impulses crushed by an authoritarian social system is given consummate rendering by a cast who very triumphantly unite energy and discipline . |
| 10 | The only rigour in Hennigian cladistics is produced by the straitjacket of assumptions that Hennig has fastened on himself and his version of the subject , which effectively separates it from having anything to do with evolution . |
| 11 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 12 | After the mauling received from his dear colleagues , the designer eventually produces what he hopes will be a document which meets the internal criticisms . |
| 13 | The music by Dominic Muldowney is no more than pleasant , but it effectively fulfils its main purpose , which is to keep at bay recollections of Lerner and Loewe . |
| 14 | Opposite middle : This wild boar is what the factory pig instinctively thinks it still is . |
| 15 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 16 | Jane Austen rather prides herself on writing on things with a fairly restricted area of interest , whereas George Eliot , on the other hand , I think is interested to write about all sorts of things . |
| 17 | The NZRFU rather prides itself on its official-player liaison , of treating its players handsomely , and it rather hopes that they in turn would treat the NZRFU with courtesy , if not affection . |
| 18 | Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem . |
| 19 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
| 20 | However there are no signs of a foreign policy debate being forced at the moment and one rather doubts there will be unless something dramatic happens so one might say the assassin failed … ’ |
| 21 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 22 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 23 | No work shall be automatically excluded except where the law of the land expressly forbids its circulation . |
| 24 | In his treatise I Will Pray with the Spirit he describes that Church 's Book of Common Prayer as ‘ a mere human invention , which God is so far from owning it that He expressly forbids it , in His most Holy and Blessed Word ’ . |
| 25 | The book of Leviticus expressly forbids it . |
| 26 | DEC DULY LAUNCHES ITS ALPHA PC FOR WINDOWS NT |
| 27 | DEC DULY LAUNCHES ITS ALPHA PC … |
| 28 | ‘ And the man who eventually wins you will be the luckiest man in the world , I think , ’ said Carlo . |
| 29 | By tea-time I was aware of walking strangely , and dared not run for the little beeps my botty made . |
| 30 | Final pricing depends of course on how Sun eventually pitches its Tsunami offering , which is to be announced two days prior to HP 's roll-out . |