Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any area distal to the point of maximum width contributes only drag , which is proportional to total tail area . |
| 2 | I wondered if it might be an admission of mortality , an agreement that as birth precedes so death must follow . |
| 3 | So keen are GKR not to be identified with the less ethical and aggressive end of the search market that it maintains it frequently turns down business ; from any other search firm , this statement might be questionable , but GKR 's standing in the market , and the obvious importance of its untarnished reputation in gaining that position , suggests that it is probably the truth . |
| 4 | Mother turns down offer |
| 5 | Labour turns down move towards electoral reform |
| 6 | It reduces the likelihood of split ends by 30–40% , slows down hair ageing , is a penetrating hair moisturizer , conditions without build up and reduces tangling . |
| 7 | This not only affects individuals , but also slows down service development to meet changing patterns of need . |
| 8 | The transmissions use those soliton waves we told you about way back in summer 1990 ( CI No 1,459 ) , which are electronically induced and never lose their shape as they whiz through optical glass fibre , so that signalling errors are all but non-existent , obviating the need for costly error-correction equipment , which also slows down transmission . |
| 9 | Silver plants usually have a thick coating of felty fur which slows down evaporation . |
| 10 | PHONEY TV SOAP GOES DOWN DRAIN |
| 11 | It comes off at North Cheams and goes down Church Hall Road , and up Priory Road , till it the end of Avenue |
| 12 | The sand eroded accumulates down wind from the dune , where , being fresh , it is recolonised by marram and stability is thus regained . |
| 13 | Russia plays down scale of Tomsk-7 blast |
| 14 | Stewart plays down crowd 's stone attack |
| 15 | Although the law imposes only base-line standards , therefore , it can nevertheless create conditions which increase the chances of high quality performances being achieved . |
| 16 | Even with such opportunities as the Bill presents to get cases into the Crown court , where the offence involves only damage to vehicles or property — the vast bulk of cases — it is the value of the damage to property , as set out in clause 2 , that is the criterion , not the extent of the nuisance and danger , although that is the real problem with which we need to get to grips . |
| 17 | Killer bug shuts down baby ward |
| 18 | In the aggregate , however , the community can not reduce its bond holdings and the attempt to do so only drives down bond prices and , therefore , leads to an increase in interest rates . |
| 19 | ‘ The main problem is that the illness makes her foodpipe so sore that she drinks only milk and rarely eats solids . |
| 20 | It is an expert er report prepared by a partner of the solicitors firms who has since qualifying been dealing primarily with commercial and residential conveyancing . |
| 21 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 22 | Setting a cost limit first , and then trying to tailor services to fit , causes only conflict and demoralisation . |
| 23 | Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne ANGELO ABELA ( father of Lucia , 2 ) Why Weeps the Brogan ? by Hugh Scott ( Walker Books , £7.95 ) A nuclear disaster leaves Saxon and Gilbert believing that a buried museum is their world and that beyond its great doors lies only dust and darkness . |
| 24 | has only colour and silence |
| 25 | But that is not so , for a bailee has only possession and not ownership ( which remains in the bailor ) , and yet the bailee can sue a third party for conversion . |
| 26 | And , instead of a sea of individual appellations , Alsace has only AC Alsace ; and AC Alsace Grand Cru for wines produced from both the best grapes and the best sites . |
| 27 | Clearly to have the combination of an off bore sight capability for a a missile such as A S R A A M , the er advance short range air to air missile , the combination of the agility of the weapon and the flat platform together has been shown to be really needed , you ca n't have one without the other and that somebody who has only agility in the aircraft or agility in the in the weapon , will lose against somebody who has it in both . |
| 28 | His address sparked an international campaign , aimed mainly at Japan ( South Korea has only observer status at the UN , Taiwan is not represented at all ) . |
| 29 | ‘ It all looks so brilliant-so — like everything 's deadened , in there . |
| 30 | It is a pity that this book contains only half ( 11 ) of the papers presented at the symposium , the rest having appeared in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , apparently for logistic rather than logical reasons . |