Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These BOB specialists are , however , quite often the principal firms involved in an internal trade route rarely discussed in polite company in Champagne . |
| 2 | In about half of all cases hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is familial , the remaining cases presumably arising from sporadic mutation . |
| 3 | Finally , Portes suggests that in the struggle , the groups rarely come into direct confrontation with the dominant class , but usually with members of the bureaucratic-technical class who staff the agencies of the state ( Portes 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Percentages are based on a total of 46,652 solicitors altogether working in private practice . |
| 5 | When is a building sufficiently furnished for full habitation ? |
| 6 | Where was that traditional British reserve only abandoned for cloying camaraderie under the influence of injuriously vast quantities of alcohol ? |
| 7 | A roe deer came down into reeds opposite to munch at green stuff . |
| 8 | That 's to say , she had firm features and smartly cut , possibly dyed hair obviously kept under regular control , and she behaved as if she had known a time when she turned every head and expected you to be aware of this too . |
| 9 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 10 | One of the techniques to be tried out in the study is the value of using grid square mapping of the attractions in the urban areas , a technique hitherto applied to extensive resource assessment . |
| 11 | Chancery Division so held in Prudential Assurance Company Ltd v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 925 . |
| 12 | In Committee , the Lord Chancellor , Gardiner , a prominent campaigner against capital punishment , tried unsuccessfully to lessen the impact of the Commons amendment by proposing that the five year experimental period should expire on 31 July , only if Parliament so determined by affirmative resolution of both Houses . |
| 13 | Recently , for instance , the GHI Taste Panel tucked in to ready-made Christmas cakes ( see page 107 ) , while two more GHI researchers literally went into cold storage ( -18°C ) to test out the thermal properties of the vests featured on page 105 . |
| 14 | Triadic harmony , which may have originated in oral practice ( improvised parallel singing ) , was for good reasons highly developed in notated music but remains fundamental to most recorded music . |
| 15 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 16 | Now , you , for instance , " she said , her vague look suddenly sharpening into pinpointed attention , " you , I should think , do . |
| 17 | The ornaments recovered from Neolithic cemeteries in the Rhine and Danube basins show that the shells most favoured for personal adornment were those of the mussel Spondylus gaederopus from which were fashioned necklaces , pendants and bracelets . |
| 18 | Perhaps the greatest achievement of this approach was the prediction by Young and by Helmholtz ( in Mollon 1982 ) , in the nineteenth century , of the existence of three classes of colour-sensitive receptor in the retina , each sensitive to a different wavelength of light , a prediction only confirmed by direct measurement in the last thirty years ( Mollon 1982 ) . |
| 19 | He raised his hands in the air in mock surrender , backing away , grey eyes suddenly dancing with genuine enjoyment . |
| 20 | They traversed sooty halls so crammed with long-dead machinery as to be mazes in themselves . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ I had wondered whether a piece so drenched in Anglican chant ( running from Gilbert and Sullivan to Morning Prayer and back ) could rise and sail . ’ |
| 22 | Similarly , The Prelude constantly alludes to classical epic and in particular to Paradise Lost , though how conscious an intention of the poet this was is debatable . |
| 23 | The under-21s were without John Stannard , their number one short corner specialist , whose car broke down en route , but they managed comfortable wins in the regional qualifiers with goals all scored from open play . |
| 24 | Neither should it be thought that informal methods necessarily lead to untidy work presented in a poor hand . |
| 25 | Rather than stick to these ‘ origination ’ strengths , however , BZW has tried to build the kind of corporate-finance department long boasted by old-established merchant banks that advise on mergers and acquisitions . |
| 26 | In Germany notably , where the government was a good deal less influenced by domestic opinion than in France and Britain , there was marked official sensitivity to the comments of foreign newspapers and an anxiety to present the best possible face to the outside world . |
| 27 | This is the most spectacular section of the Dee , its steep confining walls fringed by dense woodlands and its rocky bed much too rough for the passage of walkers not addicted to hard labour and who have respect for their clothes . |
| 28 | Certain duets thus feel like tortuous workshop explorations , with manoeuvres hard to do and awkward to watch , and it is these moments where Page seems to come adrift from the music . |
| 29 | And why indeed should gamesmanship not exist in disabled sport when it is rife everywhere else ? |
| 30 | a balance sheet for all funds not included in consolidated balance sheet ; |