Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups who have normally felt able to assert a strong bargaining position did voluntarily restrain themselves for three years of evident national emergency . |
| 2 | He says that his data showed that those businesses with low investment intensity did indeed start off with high ROI , as the earlier cross-sectional studies discovered , but that this often led managers to over-invest . |
| 3 | Field experiments have proved that this startle display does indeed deter attacks from small birds . |
| 4 | It would be nice to know whether females with high quality mates do indeed succeed in rearing more young than those with low quality mates ; they ought to , but there are n't yet enough data to be sure . |
| 5 | Some program upgrades do truly behave in the same way as their predecessors but this is the exception rather than the rule ! |
| 6 | The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out . |
| 7 | Although in the early years control did largely rest with the imperial family , others increasingly came to wield power in its name , and the years after 1185 saw hegemony pass to a succession of military rulers who achieved pre-eminent influence by virtue of superior military strength . |
| 8 | So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now . |
| 9 | The bipolar outflow model does however raise the question of how molecules can survive in a strong shock in a medium with the extremely high velocity of 1,000km s -1 ( for comparison , the sound velocity in interstellar space is only a few kilometres per second ) . |
| 10 | The technique was used in a previous study to show that three members ( blood relatives ) of a duodenal ulcer family did indeed harbour clonal variants of the same strain of H pylori . |
| 11 | Where jobs are available , there is evidence that higher AFDC payments do apparently encourage more people to remain dependent on the state than where they are lower , but overall variations in labour market buoyancy mean that ‘ analyses which place the blame for poverty among these families upon the welfare ‘ largesse ’ are deficient' ( p. 210 ) . |
| 12 | It is clear from this discussion that transport of small mammal bone does indeed produce high levels of breakage , and that transported assemblages are difficult to interpret palaeoecologically . |
| 13 | Live video projection does indeed have its place but the quality of image generated on a computer screen will never be as good as that of a 35mm slide . |
| 14 | What is clear , I think , is that to refer to the whole debate as a ‘ scandal ’ is grossly to exaggerate the position , and it disregards the very great scientific problems thrown up by the apparently simple question of whether low-level lead exposure does indeed produce the alleged effects . |
| 15 | Predictably , most of the new gentry committees did indeed reveal hostility to emancipation , but they also revealed two other things . |