Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , there seems at present less to complain about in most of our primary schools than in secondary or tertiary education . |
| 2 | Among the bogies foolishly trotted out for this purpose is the imaginary policeman … |
| 3 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 4 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 5 | ‘ And yet he wore a collar and tie , ’ put in Kathleen , tipping Madeira cake crumbs deftly from her plate into the little blue tin always brought in for that purpose with the tea trolley . |
| 6 | Whatever research still went on in that area remained the privilege of Tech-Green itself : unpublished and hidden . |
| 7 | Dr Hendron also hit out at some unionist politicians who , he claimed , condemned loyalist violence ‘ with a tongue in their cheek ’ . |
| 8 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |
| 9 | The Guidelines also spell out in some detail what anticompetitive effects the Department is concerned about . |
| 10 | Following the trend of many new industries , firms that make computers often spring up near each other . |
| 11 | And what Saturd , what 's the match on Saturday before squeezed in between that ? |
| 12 | And I 'd got the Know me God Personally cos the words really stand out on that little green book . |
| 13 | But would you envisage that the numbers er of aircraft actually kitted out with these things have been reduced or are you talking about having spares in case they get lost or damaged ? |
| 14 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |
| 15 | Not only are there competing social sciences , but everyone has to be something of a social scientist just to get by in this world . |
| 16 | All I have to do is push down , the man inside pushes up and the wardrobe slowly comes up like that . |
| 17 | Boulders constantly swept down on either side of them . |
| 18 | This large pathology institute regularly sends out to all doctors in Denmark special packs containing a transport medium into which samples from patients suspected of having gonorrhoea can be inoculated . |
| 19 | The dedication to ‘ a-ta-na po-ti-ni-ja ’ on the same tablet unfortunately breaks off after this momentous invocation . |
| 20 | Rampant Banbridge never looked back after this early let-off and second-half tries from scrum half Neil Thompson and flanker Derek Muirhead secured victory . |
| 21 | I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described ( except that it is cold , spacious , severe , pale and remote ) and then , as in the other examples , found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it . |
| 22 | His grandparents usually chip in at this point . |
| 23 | But the Journal also comes up with some curious contradictions : 36 per cent blame the microwave for poorer flavour , 20 per cent think it makes food soggy . |
| 24 | Can you imagine that , you know just using your imagination again to slip back to those er these things had n't been experienced . |
| 25 | A specialist in failure analysis in that unit is Tony Jones , whose involvement in AIB investigations also goes back over many years . |
| 26 | Lack of attention aside , his name still cropped up in many conversations but he was never in any real danger of being taken seriously within the circle of Manchester 's low art dwellers . |
| 27 | What is not in doubt is that in spite of huge emigration , steadily dropping natality and enormous wartime losses , the European population as a whole still went up throughout this period ( see also pp. 367–68 ) . |
| 28 | Very often the fossil bones may be broken in place by slight earth movements but with the pieces of bone still lined up with each other , only to fall apart during later transport or during excavation . |
| 29 | ‘ We were originally studying how this organism causes disease and the vaccine possibly came out of that research , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Some writers probably set off with that idea in the back of their minds , but up to now Hannah has disarmed them all . |