Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cold winter weather it develops a terminal misfire starting with a slight loss of power which slowly turns into a worsening , choking misfire eventually stopping the vehicle . |
| 2 | From here take the left hand fork which eventually merges into a surfaced minor road leading to the hamlet of Ings ( 3.5 miles ) on the main A591 . |
| 3 | Still compulsive viewing after all these years , the story tells of a sexual attraction between alluring femme fatale Matty ( Kathleen Turner ) and sleazy lawyer Ned ( Hurt ) which eventually leads to a murderous crime of passion . |
| 4 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
| 5 | Three hundred thousand foxes are killed annually in this country , either through hunting , which only attributes to a small two point percent , shooting , gassing , snaring , all of which happen during the hunting season as well . |
| 6 | Then follows a series of vertical pitches descending 555 feet in total in the company of the stream , which finally plunges in a high waterfall to the lower recesses of Alum Pot . |
| 7 | It was part of my planning to use this day to catch up with the vast mound of paperwork , documentation of seizures and reports , which always accumulates after a successful revenue operation . |
| 8 | I generally buy these in packs of one hundred or more , which usually results in a massive discount on the one off price . |
| 9 | Labour 's greatest ever achievement , without fear of any contradiction , the greatest achievement of the Labour movement was the introduction of the N H S which still remains to a large extent , the envy of the world . |
| 10 | Further down the street can be found one of the only blacksmiths and farriers in the area , a very busy place , which also doubles as a local meeting place . |
| 11 | He boasts all the trappings of a billionaire : the 385-foot yacht which also acts as a roving business headquarters ; the private jets ; a string of racehorses ; gold supposedly held in the form of bars ; the twenty-mile-square holiday island of Spetsopoula , off Athens ; the shipping fleet on which his fortune is based ; a string of trophy wives and mistresses topped only be the late Aristotle Onassis ; and prime investment property around the world . |
| 12 | The opening of Leçon de choses , significantly entitled ‘ Générique ’ , can almost be said to provide a poetics of the autonomous , self-referential text , such is the emphasis upon the creative power of words : a description is composed which will generate the text as a whole and which also acts as a self-reflexive commentary on this process . |
| 13 | If you have a sound card , better quality sound output is available by using the perform function which also acts as a mini-recording studio , allowing you to record direct from the computer keyboard . |
| 14 | As part of the government 's support for renewable energy schemes , refuse-derived fuel ( RDF ) will be used in a new power station in Slough which also relies on a circulating fluidized bed , a form of clean coal technology . |
| 15 | The class of shares in respect of which employees and directors are granted options will usually provide for a mandatory sale upon cessation of employment , which strictly amounts to a uniform restriction across the whole of that class of shares . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ I am concerned at the whole idea of trying to whip up custom with a free deal which automatically converts into a pay-as-you-go service charged on your phone bill — unless you contract out . |
| 17 | Second , as the stores fill up , their buffering capacity will be reduced , thus leading to a pacemaker elevation of cytosolic calcium ( Fig. 4 b ) , which often appears at a specific initiation site where it provides the trigger to detonate the process of CICR ( Fig. 4 , step c ) . |
| 18 | The two most likely services to trigger a process of decline are the post office , which often acts as a multiple service facility ( Taylor and Emerson , 1981 ) , and the primary school , which is not only a central feature of the community but also a vital ingredient in retaining a young and active population ( Jones , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | This lies on top of a buttress cliff which forms the turning corner of the lake 's south shore , which here swings into a long south-pointing branch , the Urner See . |
| 20 | Or is a study of democracy bound to be a study of the diverse meanings given to a term which simply acts as a linguistic umbrella for them all ? |
| 21 | As the definition of meditation developed in scope , so prayer came to denote not just intellectually formulated structures but a desire for God which sometimes rises to a direct consciousness of his presence . |
| 22 | At large values of a , the chaotic solution returns directly to a single periodic solution , which then splits into a symmetric pair of solutions that undergo a period-doubling cascade back into chaos . |
| 23 | Occasionally situation Z may inspire the creation of a wholly new principle , which then serves as a possible precedent for the future . |
| 24 | A further increase in b gives a return to a symmetric pair of periodic solutions that undergo period doubling into chaos , which then leads into a new periodic solution . |
| 25 | In summary , the detailed empirical work outlined above has enabled another general law to be formulated , the principle of circular and cumulative causation , in which the key factors are : an initial reduction in farm employment ; which is followed by a deterioration in the age structure ; which is in turn followed by a reduced rate of natural increase which then leads to a reduced population which in turn leads to reduced demands for rural services and thus a reduced demand for rural employment which then triggers another circular decline ( Hodge and Whitby , 1981 ) . |
| 26 | Owing to the fact that there are underlying molecular mechanisms that modify these early retinoic acid-induced patterns , the net effect of retinoic acid application to preheadfold-stage mouse embryos is a duplication of the r4/5 Hox code in r2/3 , which ultimately results in a homeotic transformation of rhombomeric phenotypes . |
| 27 | Certainly experience helps children in the formation and shaping of concepts but unguarded free activity is likely to be as unrewarding in the long term as a learning programme which never departs from a prepared text book . |
| 28 | His or her patterns of sleep and wakefulness are determined by an intrinsic cyclical patterning of alternation of behavioural activity and sleep states , modulated by demands of hunger and thirst , which commonly resolves into a four-hour " day " by the end of the first month . |
| 29 | Whey-faced and wobbling , she slowly rises to a kneeling position behind the chair and peers out over a rampart of faded chintz , searching the room for the source of my voice . |
| 30 | She only swallows as a special treat if I 've been really good or something . |