Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the end of the nineteenth century , the Milanese anatomist Camillo Golgi had discovered almost by chance a stain , based on the use of silver salts , which has the capacity to select out , seemingly at random , a small proportion of the neurons in a section of tissue and stain each immaculately , revealing every last detail not just of its cell body but also the dendrites and even the myriad little spines which stud the dendrites ' surfaces . |
| 2 | The adverbs here and there are often thought of as simple contrasts on a proximal/distal dimension , stretching away from the speaker 's location , as in : ( 72 ) Bring that here and take this there But this is only sometimes so , for although there basically means " distal from speaker 's location at CT " , it can also be used to mean " proximal to addressee at RT " . |
| 3 | Bring that here . |
| 4 | My children eat that very quickly . " |
| 5 | I regret that now . ’ |
| 6 | There is ample evidence that those ties remain strong even as the character of networks changes in other ways and thus these basic family links continue to be the first line of defence , the more so because other forms of association may weaken . |
| 7 | Okay , what we can do , if we graphics we bind that alright ? |
| 8 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 9 | Rigby LJ : Seeing that you repeat that so often , why not ? |
| 10 | I dispute that really ; I dispute that enough . |
| 11 | I dispute that really ; I dispute that enough . |
| 12 | Will the folks in the tripe market at Clogtown , Lancs trust Labour again ? |
| 13 | We remain uninformed both about the now-extinct intermediates and the evolutionary processes that would have been responsible for the diversification of early multicellular animals into what we now perceive as distinct phyla , each with its own body plan . |
| 14 | Non-pelagic species , which do not normally come into direct contact with ice , appear to avoid freezing simply by supercooling ; their fluids remain ice-free even 1–2°C below freezing point . |
| 15 | If you buy privately you lose that right straight away . |
| 16 | I mean that just like . |
| 17 | I mean that quite literally . |
| 18 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 19 | ‘ Your penis would have broken right off inside her and I mean that quite literally . |
| 20 | True soils develop from these unpromising beginnings when fine materials , accumulated by water or wind , remain stable long enough to differentiate chemically into horizontal bands or horizons ( Campbell and Claridge , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most distinguishing features of psychological approaches to the study of human development are the assumption of underlying continuities between behaviours at different points in the lifespan , and the attempt to understand how interactions between the individual and the environment at one point in time make possible more elaborate interactions at some later point in time . |
| 22 | A further implication is that , although standards and routines provide a basis for self-reward in housework , they also make possible less happy outcomes . |
| 23 | Very few remain intact today , having been dispersed mainly between the wars . |
| 24 | The GATT talks make that abundantly clear . |
| 25 | I make that absolutely clear . |
| 26 | Make that very good joke , yes ? |
| 27 | The feelings of dementia sufferers remain acute long after cognitive and behavioural impairment is clearly marked ( Froggatt , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | People in developing African and Asian countries do not have all our modern advantages and some infective diseases , which have become part of history here , remain rampant there . |
| 29 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 30 | Many of the knobs and levers also display that rather nice handbuilt look . |