Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ soft ’ tradition is , apparently , concerned to ‘ treat people as people , and [ is ] concerned less with law-making and more with speculative exploration ’ . |
| 2 | They read them and yes they send away to several and then you have to score , you have to have something better than somebody else . |
| 3 | Grout is usually white , but you can buy coloured grout if you want to make a feature of the grout lines ( an effect that looks best with plain or fairly neutral patterned tiles ) . |
| 4 | I know that we 're meeting with the company next week , but whether or not anything 's come forward on that and also erm in reference to the pensions section , erm , just correct your deliberate mistake and part timers ca n't enter the Securicor Pension Scheme . |
| 5 | Aristotle criticized Democritus ( c.460–390 BC ) for believing only in efficient and not in final causes , that is , in strict determinism rather than in teleology . |
| 6 | Children benefit also from more than usually grammatical speech from adults who address them in the early stages in a fashion tailored to their learning needs . |
| 7 | Charles baulked slightly at that and then he realized that Bernard actually thought himself Noel Coward . |
| 8 | When the crisis broke out in 1294 considerable arrears had accumulated on all these clerical levies : from the lay subsidies of 1275 and 1290 on their temporalities ; from the direct clerical subsidies of 1279–80 and 1290 ; and from papal tenths granted both in 1274 and especially in 1291 . |
| 9 | In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder . |
| 10 | Er and do you remember living there at all or well . |
| 11 | The move towards this more complex kind of painting reaches a climax in the still lifes that Braque painted late in 1909 and early in the following year , for example Violon et Cruche and Violin and Palette . |
| 12 | Looking neither to left nor right where the |
| 13 | The car purred on , the driver looking neither to left nor right , the picture of inscrutability . |
| 14 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 15 | An Ur-freezer , it goes directly to zero and beyond without narrative deviation . |
| 16 | ‘ I keep the subject constantly before me , and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light . ’ |
| 17 | Repentance includes turning away from social as well as personal sins . |
| 18 | History for New Historicism still meaningfully links past with present and even future while at the same time recognising that ‘ little histories ’ ( accounts which emphasise the particularity of specific historical acts within a localised context ) must be closely explicated . |
| 19 | Reports from Tehran on 22 September told of an attack that day on the city 's Mehrabad airport , which , like a number of others around the world , was used partly for civil and partly for military purposes . |
| 20 | In practice , unless you have a 486DX — it does not work quite like that because whenever the program is converting it makes such demands on the whole system that everything else is slowed up . |
| 21 | That team deals principally with that and then there 's the Community Development Team headed by John who worked with particular groups in the town . |
| 22 | Sir Alec Cairncross , a former Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury , heaps praise on the Attlee governments at the end of his highly regarded study Years of Recovery : ‘ Whether one tries to look forward from 1945 or backwards from forty years later , those years appear in retrospect , and rightly so , as years when the government knew where it wanted to go and led the country with an understanding of what was at stake . |
| 23 | The cupboard smelled slightly of damp and even on a warm summer evening Ginny felt the prickle of goose pimples rising on her bare arms . |
| 24 | Ah , you probably know more about this than just about anybody outside government . |
| 25 | This problem stems partly from unresolved and sometimes unarticulated contradictions within the movement itself . |
| 26 | Another method reverses the direction of flow , with the water moving upwards through coarse and then fine material . |
| 27 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 28 | It becomes more ‘ leaky ’ which allows other food molecules through and the body may then react adversely to these as well . |
| 29 | At eighteen , he was physically much more mature than most English ballet students , because at that time they left school and began dancing professionally at sixteen or even younger . |
| 30 | The stories of Tristan and Iseult and of King Arthur and his knights are inextricably linked together in muddled and often contradictory legend . |