Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercifully , these days , it 's easier to avoid costly mistakes by splashing out on a large bottle of something which is transformed into ‘ Eau de Old Socks ’ by your skin 's individual chemistry : if you ask politely in department stores , many perfume houses gladly hand out miniature sample vials of their wares , enabling you to make up your mind away from the high-pressure squirtings of over-zealous tester-bottle-wielders . |
| 2 | But in fashioning his movement , Baden-Powell skilfully wove together any number of the political questions that preoccupied his contemporaries , and the movement 's spectacular growth drew on deep funds of social anxiety — anxieties which invariably settled around the excessive liberty allowed to young people and the attendant demoralisation which was , in turn , linked to a newly perceived upsurge in crime and violence among the young . |
| 3 | Its self-adjusting actions means that hair only absorbs as much lotion as it needs . |
| 4 | er Parents predicament is understandable , there have been many tragedies in the past where local authorities perhaps took too much notice of the parents and too little of the children . |
| 5 | Although advertising is picking up after the recession , most in the industry only expect fairly modest growth . |
| 6 | Big Ears just lies around all day ‘ tuning in ’ . |
| 7 | The reason that an extremely lenient criterion was adopted was simply that subjects generally gave very little detail about the situations they actually recalled correctly . |
| 8 | ( d ) The contractor has the possible opportunity to tender , with the approval of the architect , for work which is subject to a prime cost sum , provided the contractor directly carries out such work in the ordinary course of his business . |
| 9 | THE head of French cosmetics giant L'Oreal yesterday ruled out any bid for control of the company by shareholder Nestle before 1994 . |
| 10 | Patients with Barrett 's oesophagus also had significantly lower median lower oesophageal sphincter pressures ( 9.5 v 17 mm Hg ; p=0.014 ) but there was no difference in any of the other manometric parameters . |
| 11 | A sub-sample of six schools also provided more detailed information . |
| 12 | At first Stuart had been excited by the sight of an occasional fish rising out of the sluggish water , but later he 'd grown bored because he was too small to row successfully , and trailing his hands over the side apparently disturbed the fish ; baling out with the old saucepan also made too much noise . |
| 13 | Averaged out , the trainers clearly gave much greater weight in selecting future teachers to oral proficiency and experience of the country whose language would be taught , and much less to written proficiency , knowledge of literature or linguistics , the referee 's report , or experience with children ’ ( Gold , 1985 : 11 ) |
| 14 | Worries also exist over mutual recognition of testing and certification procedures , as there is concern that some member states may not have adequate facilities and experience to ensure that these procedures are carried out with appropriate attention to important details . |
| 15 | The number of people out of work in the North-East also rose slightly last month adding an extra 700 to the region 's dole queue . |
| 16 | At the confirmation stage the agent really has very little function because the necessary steps are taken by the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | Comfort , structure and relationships now warrant as much attention as the high-achievement goals of recognition , power , autonomy , creativity and growth . |
| 18 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
| 19 | Whereas on Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? the first-time director had been constricted by the wishes of the starry couple and the confines of the Albee play , Nichols now had far more power to exercise . |
| 20 | Night Goblins often take over abandoned Dwarf strongholds to live in , and much of the ancient Dwarf Empire is now infested with these creatures . |
| 21 | In action , the field artillery particularly had even less cover than the infantry ; often reduced still further by officers of the old school of that notably proud French arm , ‘ La Reine des Batailles ’ , who believed ( and there were still many like them ) that to take cover under fire was almost cowardice . |
| 22 | Working people and shoppers here have as much right to sit in the sunshine at lunchtime for a few minutes as their counterparts elsewhere in the country . |
| 23 | It is a place of confluence , quite noisily so I imagine in winter or during the melting season , for rivers splash down into Arreau from east , west and south , at least four of them , with the Neste d'Aure here taking on more water for the journey north . |
| 24 | The defeat virtually rules out any chance of the Sunday League title , with just one win from their first five matches . |
| 25 | She had already been removed to the Intensive Care Unit at the JR2 , but in the bedroom there seemed quite sufficient evidence that she had planned a deliberate departure . |
| 26 | Lennox-Boyd then laid down that independence would only be granted if wanted by ‘ a substantial majority of the people ’ ; if Bourne 's proposals were accepted by NLM as well as CPP then they could go ahead : ‘ If he failed then there appeared to be no alternative but to call a general election ’ ( p.245 ) . |
| 27 | It does not need a lawyer either to draw up any document or to advise you although you may wish to consult a professional adviser if a particularly large sum is involved or if there are complicated conditions surrounding the gift . |
| 28 | In contrast to existing local authority plans , LDDC explicitly encouraged mainly private housing to diversify the existing housing stock which was 80 per cent council housing . |
| 29 | These include the recent introduction of Advanced Coating Technology ACTTM which extends the application of Platinum group metals into areas where cost considerations currently rule out large scale use of the metals and new manufacturing technologies such as knitted gauze . |
| 30 | For the rest of the decade the reserves never fell below third place , and were champions a further five times . |