Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , where the transfer is pursuant to a court order or does not otherwise involve consideration . |
| 2 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 3 | In a bizarre case that has once more focused attention on the accountability of art restorers , a United States Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments on a decision that , for now , requires an American city to pay more than half-a-million dollars for restoration work on a city-owned mural which that city never contracted to restore . |
| 4 | Her younger brother was sent by Teresa later in the day to say she would not be returning to a house where a dangerous lunatic lived and no one could expect her to — she would rather forfeit that week 's wages than wait long enough to give notice . |
| 5 | I wish I could give these women their time again , to take them to the hills and show them what they could have shared with their selfish husbands , show them how a ridge-walk compares to a coffee morning in a draughty church hall , and how they could have become more in tune with their spirit and feelings up here than stuck down there watching television soap operas . |
| 6 | Firms that do not already offer coverage will be obliged to cough up — and some of them will be forced out of business . |
| 7 | The reason that Beccaria gives for his requirement of proportionality is that ‘ If an equal punishment be ordained for two crimes that do not equally injure society , men will not be any more deterred from committing the greater crime , if they find a greater advantage associated with it ’ ( p. 63 ) . |
| 8 | The history of pronunciation is one of those issues that do not primarily involve standardization , because it is about the history of speech in face-to-face interaction and because standardization has always had less effect on pronunciation than on other linguistic levels . |
| 9 | The Argyll Street entrance was full of real beggars , the kind that do not even have mouth organs . |
| 10 | These would take into account pain and disability at levels that do not currently warrant revision . |
| 11 | Perhaps we need men like Denis O'Neil to give us the pointless perspective , to underline the fact we do not live by bread alone but by blarney and beauty and other indefinable things that do n't always make money . |
| 12 | Clara , as she ran for the Métro , was full of the greatest joy of her life , for she felt herself to be , at last , living ; the thick complexity of what had happened satisfied something in her that had never before had satisfaction . |
| 13 | Newly laid concrete that dries quickly often develops hair cracks which are potential points of weakness . |
| 14 | The trunks that fall over sometimes take root several metres away from the base of the tree , at which point a new tree will grow up . |
| 15 | But companies are at last cottoning on to this , and beginning to produce equipment that does n't just make sense to the MIDI-literate studio engineer , but can be incorporated into guitarists ' setups and actually used . |
| 16 | In compulsory competitive tendering the Government are merely bringing up the rear and ensuring that local authorities that have not yet taken advantage of those techniques are brought up to the level of the best . |
| 17 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 18 | A key question is how the management of the market imperfections that have so strongly influenced investment behaviour in the past will be conducted in the future . |
| 19 | They also agreed to send observers into potential flashpoints of neighbouring Kosovo and Macedonia to prevent a repeat of the civil war in two regions that have so far escaped violence . |
| 20 | which is scraped off and used as so called paint for the pottery , mixed with a little light |
| 21 | I gave him a hard releasing shove in the general direction of Sam , Perkin and an open-mouthed Gareth and at last watched a dozen restraining hands clutch and keep him from destroying himself entirely , but he struggled against them and turned his vindictive face my way and shouted in still exploding rage , ‘ I 'll kill you . ’ |
| 22 | It appears that human preoccupations and concerns once again took precedence over the interests of non-human animals . |
| 23 | COLOUR PHOTOS Left : Back and footing up Deep Cut Chimney on Hell 's Lum Crag in the Cairngorms . |
| 24 | Agnes stood and looked around then caught Maxim 's thought by saying : ‘ What no rolltop desk ? |
| 25 | Embryos or cells are fixed , extracted and stained in specially constructed glass chambers consisting of a glass washer ( 1.5 mm thick and 25 mm external diameter ) to which a glass coverslip has been attached using paraffin wax ( 46 ) . |
| 26 | Primate societies are remarkable among relatively long-lived and large-brained animal groups in that they have the capacity to store and retrieve much independently acquired information about their environment . |
| 27 | II are satisfied with the level of profits they are currently obtaining and do not therefore increase production . |
| 28 | Aspirin and heparin have a limited impact on the speed of coronary thrombolysis and on the resistance to lysis , and do not consistently prevent reocclusion . |
| 29 | Candida albicans and related yeast-like fungi are commonly found in the genital tract , particularly in women , and do not often produce infection or symptoms in the male . |
| 30 | In these two genera the tentacle pores on the arm are open and do not usually have tentacle scales . |