Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You may not be thirsty , but your body needs to rehydrate as soon as possible . |
| 32 | Although municipal waste seems to grow more slowly than income in rich countries , it does still grow . |
| 33 | ‘ OUP has spent considerably more than £100,000 adapting its computer system to cope with the new requirements . |
| 34 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 35 | The concept tends to fall down slightly when variations are required . |
| 36 | In most countries , the governmental and political concern with the environment has come somewhat later than that of scientists or concerned lay people : the early development of the Green Party in the Federal Republic of Germany is something of an exception . |
| 37 | Town planning needs and traffic needs clash most openly when it comes to squares and junctions , which is why the town at that point must reflect the needs of planning and give least consideration to the needs of traffic . |
| 38 | Says his admiring boss Peter Reid : ‘ Mike has done really well since he came in . |
| 39 | Traffic has grown steadily rather than spectacularly during the twenty-nine years the preservation company has been operating . |
| 40 | Irvine plans to turn out more than 600 buses this year . |
| 41 | For Sp1 , this has proved extremely difficult because multiple , and heterogeneous phosphorylation appears to occur in more than one region of the protein ( S.Jackson , unpublished data ) . |
| 42 | SPURS star Gordon Durie hopes to carry on today where he left off with new striking partner Teddy Sheringham . |
| 43 | Bankers would be foolish to expect the Bank of Japan to improve their spreads by cutting the official discount rate ( ODR ) again if the economy fails to recover as quickly as many now expect . |
| 44 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |
| 45 | ‘ Instead of leading the way in the Community , Britain has trailed along behind whilst others have taken the lead . ’ |
| 46 | In that 13 years manufacturing output under his Government in Britain has gone up less than 6 per cent . |
| 47 | The attention-grabbing deal comes as the US market , which in the past has made up more than 40 per cent of sales of the Coventry-produced supercars , shows the first signs of upturn in three years . |
| 48 | The government has spent more heavily than its predecessors on promoting its policies . |
| 49 | Indeed one commentator has gone so far as to describe the DTI 's performance in these cases coupled with its sloppiness in the Barlow Clowes affair and failure to press prosecution over the House of Fraser takeover as ‘ part of a lengthy and dishonourable supine tradition ’ ( Alex Brummer , Guardian , 28.8.90 ) . |
| 50 | Please remember that life has to go on abroad as well as at home . |
| 51 | The joiner work was from nicely matched teak , the surface of which showed few of the marks that one would expect in a yacht whose log has ticked off more than 16,000 miles ( 25,000km ) of long distance cruising . |
| 52 | ACROSS THE BORDER AND INTO THE TANGLE Trading in Europe means communicating in more than one language and using several currencies . |
| 53 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 54 | Community care has disappointed not just because social work — or other professional time — has been at a premium , but because services have been lacking . |
| 55 | A proper explanation has to employ both even if there is room for argument about the weight to be placed on each factor . |
| 56 | The marker has stayed back ever since and there have been plenty of reminders of his erstwhile self ; enough , one trusts , to restore him to selectorial favour come tour time . |
| 57 | The Pittsburgh group also described a similar constellation of findings and noted that HBV infection seems to progress more rapidly when it recurs in a second allograft . |
| 58 | If the user decides to read through more than one entry in alphabetical sequence , the Supplement entries which occur in that range of alphabet will automatically appear in their correct alphabetical places between the OED entries . |
| 59 | The database administrator has to think very carefully when setting up numerous lists as to whether their use will justify the overheads . |
| 60 | The United States of America has progressed much further than the United Kingdom has in determining this question but the basic legal principles are the same : copyright protects expression but not idea . |