Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally reared animals grow more slowly than those reared under intensive farming conditions — they are therefore more mature and are hung for two or three weeks to bring out the flavour . |
| 2 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 3 | It will be revealed that there is the potential for both publicly owned and publicly regulated concerns to perform less efficiently than public liability companies in the absence of external constraints . |
| 4 | It is fairly clear from the discussion above that there is a potential for both publicly owned and publicly regulated concerns to perform less efficiently than public liability companies . |
| 5 | The matron of Sunningdale was an easy-going woman who let visitors come pretty well when they pleased , this entailing no great inconvenience as few did please . |
| 6 | You could n't picture orgies going on there because it was so sedate and respectable . |
| 7 | Hence the social positions of the university 's new class that Bourdieu describes in Homo Academicus are ‘ ill defined ’ and have their ‘ future surrounded with an aura of indeterminacy and vagueness ’ which ‘ allows students to perpetuate as long as possible … an indeterminacy of social identity ’ . |
| 8 | The phrase ‘ rehabilitation ’ denotes no more than the practice of helping individuals to function as well as they can in all areas of their daily life or , more simply , to be happier and more fulfilled people . |
| 9 | The upshot is that incumbent governments tend to remain incumbent even when they have not got things arranged as conveniently as they would like . |
| 10 | The National Council of Churches of Kenya ( NCCK ) has launched a programme of ‘ Education for Participatory Democracy ’ to help Kenyans participate as fully as possible in the country 's transition to democratic rule . |
| 11 | Teachers felt that it was m appropriate to help pupils move as quickly as possible from purposes to information , with emphasis on reading and note making skill that stage . |
| 12 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going up to London tomorrow , Letty , ’ she said quickly , it was best she got things moving as soon as possible . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the jagged beams and stepped curves print out exactly as they appear on screen . |
| 15 | This argument is reinforced by observations that IBS patients consult more often than others after a stressful or threatening life event . |
| 16 | Laura found other themes in Victorian novels to bolster what she already believed ; for example the home was viewed as a haven isolated from the trials and tribulations of the ‘ real ’ world and women presiding over the home were to make it as attractive as possible to persuade men to stay there rather than , for example , drinking in a pub all evening . |
| 17 | Arrived at the station , the daily travellers , dressed to a man in dark suits , white , stiff-collared shirts , and bowler or trilby hats , with their tightly furled umbrellas held as elegantly as they were able , would quickly assemble in their respective and habitual positions along the platform , for they knew exactly where ‘ their ’ compartment would come to rest . |
| 18 | For example , there may be an occasion where the company requires supplies delivered more quickly than normal — the supplier may not be very accommodating because of the previous delays in payments . |
| 19 | Some may have plans to return later rather than sooner . |
| 20 | In fact , the biggest section of people involved in the social security system are ordinary working people — the 20 million or so people who contribute every week to the national insurance fund , those mugs who pay in every week in the mistaken belief that at the end of their working days , or if a crisis should arise , they will have benefits to fall back on when times get tough . |
| 21 | But if widowhood is such a double shock for many women , why do widows survive much longer than widowers ? |
| 22 | If this is followed , it should let bands progress as far as their creativity will allow . |
| 23 | Management and councillors are anxious to get things moving as soon as possible . |
| 24 | The other five were well aware of the fragility of the Fourth Republic , especially after the 1956 French election , and fearing that the EEC might not happen with a different government in power in Paris , were keen to get things moving as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | But for once it was the taking part that counted most and when you 've slept in the ruins of a fifties French post office , seen the New Year in with champers in the middle of a sand dune , coped with Idi Amin look-alike policemen and paid backstreet prices to backstreet petrol dealers , you 're going to have memories to last as long as the event . |
| 26 | Branch secretary Jack Amos explained : ‘ We are writing to all clubs in the branch to see if there is sufficient interest in such a competition and if there is we will get things moving as soon as possible . ’ |
| 27 | They 'd served their purpose , as a handwritten note pushed through the door on the Saturday afternoon had shown ; Mr Sampson — Appreciate your haste and will get things moving as quickly as I can for you . |
| 28 | He had frequently encouraged others to doss down simply because , as he admitted , he could not bear what he thought about at night . |
| 29 | Evidence of extent of planning programmes varied as widely as did descriptions of training undertaken . |
| 30 | LUXURY TOUCH : Mr Mellor instructed electricians to carry out more than £1,500 of extra re-wiring so he could listen to his beloved Elgar on compact disc in the breakfast room . |