Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reception under conditions of distraction is taken to its extreme in television , which is half watched in the course of pursuing other activities and in which very often , especially among children , entire programmes are not viewed at all ; instead , fingers rarely leave the remote control device as there is a constant change of channels ( Ellis 1982 , p. 137 ) . |
| 2 | The peace-keepers successfully tame the roaring lion . |
| 3 | The peace-keepers successfully tame the roaring lion . |
| 4 | In a public or university library which does not have subject specialists on its staff — or even in those that do — this places an intolerably heavy burden of responsibility on the individual 's judgement , and it is unlikely that any one person called upon to make weeding decisions over a spectrum of subject fields will on the basis of judgement alone achieve a consistent rate of ‘ correct ’ decision making . |
| 5 | Fry deliberately wrote the next part of his essay in a railway refreshment room ( ‘ One must remember that public places of this kind merely reflect the average citizen 's soul , as expressed in his home ’ ) . |
| 6 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |
| 7 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 8 | ‘ This is particularly true of offices , although properties like warehouses and night clubs obviously have a higher-risk record . ’ |
| 9 | Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies . |
| 10 | Attendance at the careers convention once each year is not enough and will in any case only reach a small proportion of the school children who may be contemplating their future . |
| 11 | The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness . |
| 12 | Because these relationships rarely form a coherent totality , political cultures themselves , including labourism , are replete with internal contradictions and inconsistencies . |
| 13 | Overworked officials in finance ministries rarely reject a whole list of potential projects ; they are much more likely to identify a few priorities at random , and pass on the donor to the line ministry , hoping for the best if and when the project is financed . |
| 14 | Feminist co-options of ‘ alternative ’ humanist or ethogenic methods rarely question the implicit concern with scientificity which survives in these methods , either . |
| 15 | The director also seems to be trying to satirise the fashionable filmmaking of the day by having Cleavon Little play a French-speaking director with a hand-held camera . |
| 16 | It is traditional to praise those who have died , and there are times when it is hard to recognise the person from the fine words , but in this case the words merely reflect a small insight into the very big man and loyal friend called David Pym . |
| 17 | Unlike the blue-tailed lizards , these snakes only have the bright colour on the underside of the tail-tip . |
| 18 | For example , almost all sources of silver naturally contain a little gold , and ancient silver artefacts typically have gold contents in the range of 0.1 to 1.0 per cent . |
| 19 | Had labour suddenly become a local authority , or did the S S A simply fail as an accurate way of assessing our spending needs ? |
| 20 | The mosaics of the fifth and sixth centuries especially have a glowing richness of colour and a vividness of draughtmanship which complements their hierarchical treatment of figures and compositions . |
| 21 | That photographic plates stored away uninspected at the end of an experiment only acquire a definite image when someone opens the drawer to have a look at them ? |
| 22 | As Smith points out , ‘ Conditions of conduciveness merely make the hostile outburst possible . |
| 23 | The new chrome sanitizer is progressing well , sales are up and clients much prefer the new designer version . |
| 24 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
| 25 | Many schools already have a regular item on the agenda of each full governing-body meeting which encourages discussion of a key educational issue . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend is right because many grant-maintained schools already have a high degree of support . |
| 27 | These relationships thus perform the vital function of identifying index terms . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps my legs just take the wrong turning on purpose . |
| 29 | To find other views of the ‘ Country Living ’ housestyle just follow the Allied sign . |
| 30 | The fabliaux generally retain a strong sense of the sexual difference , so that either sex can find fulfilment only with the other . |