Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it can extend an individual life , continued grafting eventually brings death without issue ; and likewise sexual generation in unchanging conditions brings death , extinction of the species , without issue . |
| 2 | Medical opinion is still divided on whether alcoholism is a disease , possibly inherited , or whether an alcoholic only lacks will-power in order to stop drinking . |
| 3 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 4 | ‘ Melanie merely lost interest in marriage to a busy consultant . |
| 5 | The majority held that , whilst an honest but unreasonable mistake would negative liability , such a defence should be put to the jury only where the defendant expressly asserted belief in consent and where there was some evidence beyond his mere assertion . |
| 6 | The administration of vague rules and guidelines effectively removed control of pollution policy from the politicians who had framed the laws , and put a stop to any parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 7 | Like phonemes themselves , words only have significance in relation to other words and as part of a total system of classification . |
| 8 | If you 're thinking of getting into shape , take it easy and build up slowly — a frantic training programme greatly increases risk of over-use injury . |
| 9 | The study only found evidence of food reactions in 15 per cent of the patients , compared with 70 per cent in another major study . |
| 10 | Regan ( 1977 ) complains about the lack of statistics on their background but says there are still some subject areas where inspectors only have experience of grammar and independent schools . |
| 11 | While there is no way of knowing whether these rates of erosion are typical or atypical of Andean regions in general , the data nevertheless give cause for concern and emphasise the role of soil erosion as a major agent of environmental change . |
| 12 | Around the harbour , fishermen 's tavernas still jostle side by side with the newer cafés and bars which have sprung up to cater for the younger market , and the main daytime activity seems to be relaxing over a quiet glass of something while watching the boats chug in and out . |
| 13 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 14 | Perception gradually yields territory to fantasy and hallucination as the protagonist 's faculty for reality-testing breaks down and doubt increases . |
| 15 | Luke broke off without completing the shocked question , the appalled look in his eyes gradually giving way to contrition as he stared at her . |
| 16 | In terms of formal policy , a shift in recent years has seen equity ostensibly yield place to efficacy . |
| 17 | WHEN WAR broke out in 1939 , the UK Government Ministry of War Transport and the Admiralty quickly assumed control of shipping . |
| 18 | The driver of a second car also needed treatment for head injuries . |
| 19 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 20 | The legs also gave scope for embellishment ; they were turned into columns or bent into distinctive arch shapes with ball feet . |
| 21 | The programme also included information on choke and valve designs for the various types of pressure ranges used on production trees . |
| 22 | The inspectors also said teaching of religion in non-church primary schools was generally poor , and ‘ usually lacked rigour , clear purpose and explicit religious content . ’ |
| 23 | The tape also gives advice on diet , health , and beauty . |
| 24 | Dev Sol also claimed responsibility for bomb explosions in the grounds of the French consulate in Istanbul on Feb. 9 . |
| 25 | The structure of the complex also shows evidence for recognition by the repressor of sequence-dependent distortions or flexibility of the phosphodiester backbone , which could mediate sequence specificity where the base pairs themselves are inaccessible . |
| 26 | Ian Wright also had food for thought as he made a hasty exit from Arsenal 's demoralised dressing room . |
| 27 | Since the gentry had tended to buy and sell land without reference to the administrative cohesion of the parcels they exchanged , two or more communes often existed side by side in a single centre of rural population . |
| 28 | Ceauşescu knew that greed and gullibility often went hand in hand . |
| 29 | From Wolhusen the circular itinerary now continues south on road 10 which has come in on the left ( ie east from Luzern . |
| 30 | In life , she was discovering , gain and loss frequently went hand in hand . |