Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [adv] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Oh yes , and a strike force that never quite manages to strike properly .
2 Thus , the red tape that so often seems to characterize bureaucracies need not be a manifestation of bureaucrats ' love for due process .
3 Well , pardon me for belching , but what we 're talking about here is a virtually unparalleled ( in this musical medium , at least ) honesty and open-ness that so far has hampered the Kitchens ' career like a rucksack full of rocks .
4 This view of the body as a machine and little more has led to the increasing use of pharmaceutical drugs to counteract symptoms and to increasingly sophisticated surgical techniques to remove and replace diseased tissues and organs .
5 Andy can juggle fire clubs and no longer gets burnt .
6 Having flown away from the nest , the bird flutters to the ground and then pathetically tries to run away , limping and dragging one outstretched wing along the ground .
7 The National Agricultural Centre Housing Association is an example of an organization that more specifically intends to provide rural housing .
8 The same bank that no longer wishes to speak to us . ’
9 It is as if Pynchon uses his earlier narrative as a pretext for setting up comic or futuristic episodes and then actually begins to deconstruct his text towards the end by separating out frozen images for comment .
10 Convocation supports the Library through its continuing Library Appeal Fund and so far has raised £3000 .
11 So the snake makes its deft , rapid lunge and then immediately withdraws to await results .
12 ‘ The Turning Point ’ is also one of the label 's strongest releases for some time and it 's the ever popular Terrace front of Stefan Robbers that once again leads Djax out into new regions .
13 As Cross ( 1988 ) reports , there are thirty-six countries producing tropical timber and thirty-three market countries which are party to this agreement that not only aims to regulate the tropical timber trade but to promote sustainable use and conservation of tropical forests .
14 Some constant changes , particularly affecting checkConsistency and diagnostics elsewhere , can result in conditions becoming difficult or impossible to satisfy , so that the program either can not complete the set-up operation or delivers too many diagnostics and perhaps even fails to deliver measurements .
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