Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays mostly keyboards these days , so maybe one day . |
| 2 | MANY DESKTOP computers can generate high-quality digital sound , but apart from games and music programs , most software emits only beeps . |
| 3 | Caine turns down scripts if it means being away from home for too long |
| 4 | It induces euphoria , numbs concentration and generally slows down reactions , increasing the likelihood of a bumpy return to earth . |
| 5 | The folly of Moscow and Pretoria , both would have agreed , lies in their common determination to institutionalise differences where nature itself offers only subtleties and complexities . |
| 6 | The worker , in contrast , has only his labour to sell and receives only wages in return . |
| 7 | At the bottom S.W. receives only applications for combinations among his four fields , all others having been directed to tutors above him . |
| 8 | The company quietened the maddened horses , some of which had raking slashes along flanks or belly . |
| 9 | Another feature of the next few years may be that the stronger venture capital firms will get stronger as the industry levels off and greater competition for business drives down returns . |
| 10 | As experience of Landsat image processing accumulates so geographers will become more adept at extracting information from such images . |
| 11 | He lives only yards from the store and fears there may be more . |
| 12 | The device amplifies only signals above a certain intensity . |
| 13 | No suppliers need apply , CUE accepts only users and its aim in life is to form a united front of users against the tyranny of the industry : call Rob Briggs +44 273 481859 . |
| 14 | The enclosed questionnaire needs only ticks for Yes or No , but if you would like to add any further statistics or details we should be very grateful . |
| 15 | Easy enough , but how does Rainey prevent the slide translating into a crash when he has only milliseconds to react to the signals of impending doom ? |
| 16 | With the exception of one firm which has only males , they have been obliged to employ women on keyboards , because when they advertised for operators , no men came forward . |
| 17 | Stalin had made clear that the Soviet Government acknowledged no Prisoners of War — " Russia has only soldiers in her army , dead soldiers or traitors " . |
| 18 | In June 1959 , however , the last performance occurred at the Chiswick Empire which was then pulled down and the site redeveloped as a tower office block , originally named ‘ Empire House ’ , but later that name did not prove acceptable to some local government officials , who considered that the name smacked of imperialism , so the block now has only numbers in Chiswick High Road . |
| 19 | He has been told he has only months to live , but the case could take two years before the Court of Session in Edinburgh . |
| 20 | 2 months ago , doctors told her mother that Natalie has only months to live . |
| 21 | The former telecommunications installation worker is giving evidence in advance of a full court hearing up to two years away because he has only weeks to live . |
| 22 | An upper Hessenberg matrix has only zeros below its infradiagonal ; and it is possible to transform any matrix A to this form by a similar transformation . |
| 23 | But the system breaks down when a company has only branches in other countries , whose assets are often seized by the local authorities . |
| 24 | I was never the friend of this power — it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERs — but it trusted me as its representative and I have done it as much harm in these dealings as I have you . |
| 25 | If so , what was this creature , that had stood before him naked and singular , but concealed multitudes ? ; this power Chant had said possessed no friends ( it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERS , he 'd written ) and had been done as much harm in these dealings ( again , Chant 's words ) as Estabrook , to whom Chant had offered his contrition and his prayers ? |
| 26 | But the BSA counts only repayments more than six months in arrears , compared with one month in the United States . |
| 27 | Richard Dyer remarks , in relation to Babuscio , that the gay sensibility ‘ holds together qualities that are elsewhere felt as antithetical : theatricality and authenticity … intensity and irony , a fierce assertion of extreme feeling with a deprecating sense of its absurdity ’ ( Heavenly Bodies , 154 ) . |
| 28 | This brochure , published by the Borough Councils of Brighton and Hove , contains only establishments that have been inspected to ensure that they meet strict minimum standards . |
| 29 | Or a card which contains only notes from Monk 's book The Sublime : a Study of Critical Theories in Eighteenth-Century England . |
| 30 | The modern ceremony contains only vestiges of the original Latin in such phrases as in absentia , for candidates graduating in their absence and honoris causa , applied to honorary degrees . |