Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 2 | Assertiveness training has rarely featured much in religious traditions . |
| 3 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 4 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 5 | FRANK BRUNO has astonishingly leapt ahead of British rival Lennox Lewis in the race to get first crack at the world heavyweight championship . |
| 6 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |
| 7 | The hardest hit Americans included Ed Ruscha , Donald Sultan and Frank Stella though Anthony Grant at Sotheby 's stresses that demand has already bounced back for top works by Julian Schnabel and others badly mauled in 1991 . |
| 8 | Why was it that his sympathy and understanding always went out to other women ? |
| 9 | Getting this ingredient off the drawing boards and into bricks and mortar — not to mention details such as Donald Duck doorknobs — was indeed the stuff of dreams for Stern , who has always stood up for emotional content : ‘ In my view , whether you are engaged in a theme park , a hospital , or a court house , the building should elicit some excitement . ’ |
| 10 | In so far as fairness is used within the traditional adjudicative framework the balancing involved therein may be different in degree but not in kind to that which has always gone on within natural justice itself . |
| 11 | The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival . |
| 12 | Yet somehow the message has still to get through to British Rail that the communication of travel information is no longer a luxury , to be fed in titbits to grateful passengers . |
| 13 | The corridor by the gymnasium was barely able to accommodate it ; it forced those walking past to do so in single file . |
| 14 | Third , the gap between the gross earnings of manual and non-manual workers has also narrowed slightly during recent years . |
| 15 | The value of early photographs has also risen sharply in recent years , especially those of topographical significance . |
| 16 | It has , for example , become the principal breed in subarctic Finland and the Finnish Ayrshire is now widespread in several northern countries , including the USSR , but the Scottish cow has also adapted well to hot climates and is found in Kenya and South Africa in particular . |
| 17 | The Homeowners account has also responded positively to remedial action and produced a profit at the half year of $16.8m ( 1992 : $4.2m loss ) following a profit of $14.7m in the second quarter ( 1992 : $4.1m profit ) . |
| 18 | The Indonesian market has also opened up to foreign investment allowing up to 49 per cent of any listed company or new issue to be bought by foreigners compared with only 11 companies being open to foreign investment previously . |
| 19 | he has now gone back to Little , Brown lock , stock and backlist , and LB is mighty pleased . |
| 20 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 21 | Castells has now moved on to new areas of research , one of these being new forms of communications technology and the threats and opportunities represented by such developments.3 Meanwhile , however , his emphasis on consumption set the tone for a very thriving area of urban sociology by later writers in this tradition . |
| 22 | The 12-year-old has now moved on to Branksome School , but still keeps in close contact with Philip , who lives next door . |
| 23 | After having to take development and marketing of its VX and MVX Intel Corp 80860-based graphics accelerator boards back under its wing after the collapse of its partner in that area , Fremont , California-based Vicom Systems Inc ( UX No 381 ) , Sun Microsystems Inc is hoping for more success with its SunVision graphics software environment which it has now turned over to Advanced Visual Systems Inc . |
| 24 | The 20th century may have been slow to arrive in Langtoft , but it is all the better for that , and whilst the village has now caught up with modern times , it remains a haven of peace from the mad pace of town and city life . |
| 25 | LIEUTENANT-Colonel Bob Stewart , who commanded the British peace-keeping force in Bosnia until earlier this month , has reportedly returned home to marital difficulties . |
| 26 | He has even gone back to old techniques . |
| 27 | Such tissue bound IgG might predominantely be IgG1 because this subclass has recently shown together with terminal complement complex on the luminal face of the epithelium in ulcerative colitis . |
| 28 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 29 | All investigations into the perpetuation of evil point ultimately to the conclusion that the human race has never placed anywhere near sufficient emphasis on the importance of training its members for parenthood . |
| 30 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |