Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , no head is powerful enough to carry effectively the sort of responsibility that the management of the National Curriculum , in the context of the rest of the Act , will bring . |
| 2 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 3 | Seeing only the spray of Petion 's blood , Ace fired again and again , the shots punching continually into Richmann 's body and causing him to jerk like a marionette before toppling backwards into the steel door . |
| 4 | While he was doing a little more manipulation of the bones before the plaster set , she got ready an injection of antibiotic and he took it from her with a nod of approval . |
| 5 | 6 Bind together a group of cinnamon sticks with Christmas ribbon and secure with a pin . |
| 6 | I can not emphasize enough the amount of care needed in this process , so if you are in any doubt about the outcome , do not attempt it . |
| 7 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 8 | To that extent , modernization represents only a potential for development , not necessarily an actual development ; indeed , form itself , in its stability , may challenge the continuum of lived experience ( Arato 1974 : 158 ; compare Giddens on routinization 1984 : 61 ) . |
| 9 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 10 | Style offers only an illusion of democracy , an illusion , indeed , that in a capitalist society is a necessary part of the leisure process . |
| 11 | The farmworker receives only a pittance in pay-off — perhaps £2,000 in redundancy pay — whereas the owner of the land may receive thousands of pounds for several years . |
| 12 | Where the groups are of similar social and economic level with no particular dislike for each other , the supplanting of one group by another usually involves only a minimum of friction . |
| 13 | If the damage can be repaired or invisibly mended , using perhaps a piece of material from a part of the armchair which is not normally in view , then the cost of repair would be paid , less any policy excess applicable . |
| 14 | It demonstrates that more can be achieved by bringing together a mass of illustration than many a pedantic thesis . |
| 15 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 16 | Using only the gloss of BSL is therefore rather misleading . |
| 17 | With more and more people getting their pop information from our squalid popular press and with most modern magazines covering music using only the language of consumerism and gossip , it is increasingly difficult to feel optimistic about rock journalism 's values . |
| 18 | Democracy is not always taken to signify only a form of government , or of choosing a government : it may be a term applied to a whole society . |
| 19 | They bring together a range of information not otherwise collected . |
| 20 | Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition . |
| 21 | He cobbled together a brunch of cold remains from the fridge , with lemon tea . |
| 22 | In order to work successfully the notion of Partnership through Compact must involve all the personnel in the participating organisations including trade unions . |
| 23 | This , of course , illustrates powerfully the lack of choice facing rural dwellers , imposing the need to work within walking distance ( if there is any ) and enforcing car ownership , lift-sharing or migration . |
| 24 | She has rather a thing about patchwork . |
| 25 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 26 | This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened . |
| 27 | Like the cry of a banshee , the sounds of the Elder Gods re-awakening from their slumber bore only the prophecy of death . |
| 28 | As is so often the case , these gates have been made by someone who has obviously no experience of walking , because they are impossible to negotiate with a rucksack on , unless you climb onto the bottom bars of the fence around the gate to lift the sack above the top rail . |
| 29 | You will need only a smear of oil for the face ; if you drench the skin , oil is liable to seep into your partners eyes . |
| 30 | And to accept only the minimum of information necessary for you to complete the task ’ . |