Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many countries would also need to borrow heavily to pay for oil imports . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 3 | Mr. Livsey : Will the Secretary of State note that British Coal Opencast has decided again to try for permission to work the Bryn Henllys site in my constituency , after an inspector turned down that application about a year ago ? |
| 4 | In France the Directive has not been implemented in order to further nature conservation — that it has done so results by default rather than by design . |
| 5 | A mass of evidence follows , most of it from sound medical sources , that the medical profession has become hopelessly hooked on prescription drugs ; that the drugs are neither so effective nor so safe as our doctors would have us believe ; and that the public and the profession is being remorselessly taken for a ride by the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 6 | For Westerners the sense of shame and embarrassment has become strongly associated with nakedness and the proprieties of dress and attitudes towards nudity ( especially among conventional Protestants ) . |
| 7 | Baudrillard goes even further than this by suggesting that the whole of contemporary life is dedicated to consumption and communication in a way which has become wholly disconnected from meaning and content . |
| 8 | It is this cause and effect relationship that has become quite lost in respect of ionic strength , precisely because the correlation at low concentration is so seductively good . |
| 9 | The ancient Dwarf hold of Karak Ungor has become so infested with Night Goblins that it is now known as Red Eye Mountain . |
| 10 | Kassin , Ellsworth and Smith ( 1989 ) found that 70% of a sample of 63 experts felt that this phenomenon is reliable enough for psychologists to present in court-room testimony — the experts in this study generally had a PhD in psychology and over half of them reported having actually testified about eyewitness testimony . |
| 11 | Investigative journalism usually implies intensive and detailed study revealing the ‘ dark under-belly ’ of a subject already in the public domain or dragging a subject which has remained conveniently hidden from view into the public domain . |
| 12 | Certainly , but I should hate you to forget that he has scored more runs in Test cricket than any other Englishman . |
| 13 | The Department of Transport confirmed last night that Mr Reid had made no input into BR 's new corporate plan which sets the blueprint and financial structure of the railways for the next three years , which is expected to show further cuts in government support . |
| 14 | Such references to property purchase are also highly evident in the entry in the general dictionary ( e.g. ’ house ’ , ’ money ’ , ’ build ’ , etc. ) : buy[ house house money money build afford afford afford small save save vote vote people make able store store sell rent part need cheap cheap car book want ton ton stamp society run provide price paper large income improve home farm expense cost buy bin bin white told start rich public process politic pack operate library instance firm encourage conservative colour activity wise win tool style site secret sand risk remember purchase proportion property proper potato market luxury likely invest hotel holding heavy finish feed favour export equip enter enlarge dress distribute distinct department dear client client clean charge champagne champagne cent cement cement business box bird big appeal aerial advantage accuse ] |
| 15 | Learning diaries are being used increasingly by such bodies as the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) and by professional bodies such as HCIMA who are seeking to credit prior learning in support of such matters as |
| 16 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 17 | The perceptions a research community develops will be influenced by a whole set of factors , none more potent than the ideas and practices that have been used previously , as well as those which are seen to yield further advances in understanding . |
| 18 | Los Angeles plans to stop slowly choking to death : John Lichfield , in Los Angeles , finds out how California 's biggest city intends to reverse 20 years of lax pollution control with an assault on its ‘ drive-in ’ lifestyle |
| 19 | Cambridge poised to take early lead in Boat Race but may not be able to stay there |
| 20 | It was bad enough in normal circumstances , but when you had n't slept a wink , when you 'd lain there suffering from shock and disgust , it was more than any normal person could bear . |
| 21 | He wrote her a brief note merely saying he had had to go home owing to illness and had found , on his return , that he was to report forthwith to the War Office . |
| 22 | And the finger 's stood there and she 's had to stand there shaking from head to foot |
| 23 | ‘ My hands and face get completely covered in grease and dirt , ’ laughs Lesley . |
| 24 | The site has been shown to have regularly put at risk the health , and often the lives , of those who work or live in its shadow . |
| 25 | Watching people you hardly know getting progressively drunk in front of your eyes while you soberly and precisely monitor the way they change is unexpectedly disturbing . |
| 26 | When members of Congress returned to Washington , not only did the Senate Republicans stand firm a third time , but conservative and moderate Democrats were emboldened to seek further cuts in spending , together with modifications to Mr Clinton 's energy tax . |
| 27 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 28 | Alternatively , the public may simply have become more sensitised to crime , through media and press reports or the Government 's crime prevention publicity , and so believing crime to be on the increase they are more likely to report offences leading to a rise in recorded crime which will lead to further media attention and so on in a ‘ deviancy amplification spiral ’ . |
| 29 | It was in a sense paradoxical that a regime for which the social repercussions accompanying industrial development in the West were anathema should have become actively committed to industrialization . |
| 30 | NAM Chairman Roger Bryan felt it was very important to remember every effort made at fund-raising , while at the time the work might have seemed far removed from aviation preservation , this work was incremental in the success of the overall project . |