Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way . |
| 2 | He was subsequently appointed director , Reprocessing Engineering Division , and became technical director and also a main board member in 1984 . |
| 3 | The ‘ misery line ’ as it is called-stations from Kennington to Morden dim and cheerless dungeons , trains cancelled with appalling regularity ( there 's a shortage of drivers on the Northern Line , because it is the last to embrace OPO-one person operation-and so the pay is lower than on other lines ) . |
| 4 | I believe the C E C are accepting this motion and therefore the principle that 's contained therein . |
| 5 | It is not necessary , however , to see this change as predominantly the result of changes in the organisation of their manufacture . |
| 6 | Councillor Sandra Plummer from Camden and the Socialist Lesbian Group , speaking in one of the plenary sessions , argued that socialists have got to stop seeing lesbian liberation as just a civil liberties issue . |
| 7 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 8 | In year 5 , demand levels off at 3,500 units — the firm , though , already has the thirty-five machines necessary to meet this demand and so no new investment is necessary . . |
| 9 | The resulting proliferation of lympho-reticular cells around each dead larva causes bronchiolar obstruction and ultimately the formation of a macroscopically visible greyish-green , lymphoid nodule about 5.0 mm in diameter ( Fig. 25 ) . |
| 10 | About four in 10 companies provide rented accommodation but only a fifth provide a housing allowance . |
| 11 | Thigh : The schoolboy trick of giving someone a ‘ dead leg ’ — i.e. kneeing them in the side of the thigh — is very effective and causes great pain but usually no lasting injury . |
| 12 | The reports have attracted considerable publicity although only a tiny proportion of the reports have been debated in the House . |
| 13 | This work was not merely a move towards understanding molecular bonding but also the material for an entire branch of chemistry . |
| 14 | He , as a rag doll , contorted , controlled by invisible strings , jerked one way and then the other and the sewer filled up high , not a half-foot from the top of the walls , so that his tumble , when he fell into the swamp , it was more a plop than a splash . |
| 15 | Fortunately in my confusion I had sometimes visualized one lung and sometimes the other . |
| 16 | Organic meat needs experienced butchery and not a quick swipe with the band saw before being instantly packaged — so go to a butcher who buys his meat on the hoof from a farmer who is n't into organics just for the sake of profit . |
| 17 | The first principal component has most information and hence the greatest contrast and least noise . |
| 18 | She brought a pile of cards that the children had made , using brightly-coloured paper and even the glitter tubes rationed out at Christmas . |
| 19 | The war prevented this flight and instead the Stratoliner was to become his executive run-about and was fitted with a sumptuous interior . |
| 20 | Kilpatrick stopped bidding but still the bids increased until , eventually , to the amazement of all present , the stranger was successful with a final bid of £9,500 . |
| 21 | The campaign provoked great interest and virtually no adverse comment . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , what I 'd failed to notice was a small plastic shard on the lip of the container on which I nicked myself , causing severe pain and not a little bleeding . ’ |
| 23 | Done one side and not the other ! |
| 24 | If there was not much coherent intellectual opposition to the left 's proposals , this by no means signified tacit support but rather a belief that the pressure of ‘ realities ’ in government would soon dispel the fancies of opposition . |
| 25 | These make happier reading and please the powerful . |
| 26 | FISH THE ISLANDS AND BACKWATERS , FISH THOSE INACCESSIBLE SPOTS , ENJOY THAT MOBILITY THAT ONLY A CRUISER AND DINGHIES CAN GIVE YOU . |
| 27 | My idea — I admit that I came up with it only this morning — is that the entire transaction involving the definition of the terms of reference for the study for the consultants should then become public property and not an enclosed relationship with the promoters . |
| 28 | And er they have got it now to a state of what I would imagine almost perfection , and that is that every man , woman and child of the population of those two countries er has got adequate protection and even a woman er who wishes to go out and do shopping in the contaminated er environment has the possibility of , of suiting up and putting a special er cover on the pram of her child and actually pushing this child with a special ventilator out . |
| 29 | Finally , we consider cost-benefit analysis because often the costs and benefits of many public sector projects are not directly quantifiable in monetary terms . |
| 30 | The peasant might be at the bottom of the pile , but he still had rights to own or work common land and thus the certainty of providing some food for the survival of himself and his family . |