Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1960s the US balance on merchandise trade failed to grow , and then sank to virtually nothing in 1968 , while the amount US business was investing abroad was rising steadily . |
| 2 | Logging has intensified in recent years , mainly due to massive Japanese investment in woodchip production , which has grown from virtually nil in 1985 to 1.7 million tonnes in 1989 . |
| 3 | He earns a bonus of 1 per cent of the rise in the company 's value and Direct Line has grown from virtually nothing in 1985 to be worth around £800 million . |
| 4 | Reported typhoid cases in 1991 had risen from virtually none to 60-70 a day . |
| 5 | It is interesting to reflect on how we in this century tend to minimise or maximise the potency of death in shaping our social systems . |
| 6 | One source of hostility towards civilization , felt by probably everyone at some points in their lives , and by some most of the time , arises from the restrictions which moral codes place on sexual activities , confining it , in West European cultures , to heterosexual relations with one partner over the whole of a lifetime . |
| 7 | In Western cooking such a mixture can add zing to almost anything from scrambled eggs to vegetables , soups , stews and sauces and poached or baked fruits , with the grateful advantage that the result will not taste as though you have succumbed to panic and thrown in a spoonful of curry powder . |
| 8 | Now , the paper format has n't quite been decided with reference to whether it will be compulsory to do at least one from each section . |
| 9 | Noises in the head or ears are experienced by almost everybody to some extent . |
| 10 | From counting for virtually nothing in positivist criminology it now seemed to count for everything , as it had originally done in classical criminology . |
| 11 | Trading in sovereign loans grew from almost nothing to half a trillion dollars in less than five years . |
| 12 | Some of these theories concern a rather narrow aspect of the use of the mental lexicon ; others are broad in scope , and attempt to say at least something about all the linguistic activities which depend upon using the mental lexicon . |