Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the 1950s , '60s and '70s these restrictions were reduced or became a less important hindrance to the City 's international operations , but they remained partially effective until they were completely abolished in 1979 . |
| 2 | Occasionally a charge on a shield of arms , or the interpretation of a crest can be an important clue in the determination of seignorial affiliation , in linking two families with different names , or suggesting a hitherto unsuspected landholding , quite apart from the visual attraction an achievement might have as stained glass , stone carving or hatchment in the local church . |
| 3 | ‘ We will have to wait until next month before we can confirm or deny whether this is so or make a more informed assessment , ’ he said . |
| 4 | These included weekly visits to each fieldworker by a supervisor , who observed interviews , revisited compounds , and either conducted full re-interviews or checked a more limited set of information on a sample of recently completed interview forms . |
| 5 | Common sense dictates that single items of food can not either cause or prevent a potentially life-threatening illness . |
| 6 | Also , in controlled indexing language databases , there is often an assumption that a user will be prepared to chase strings of references or to consult a sometimes complex thesaurus . |
| 7 | Because of the way in which my visit to the judges and the prison was arranged , I am quite confident that no ‘ set-piece ’ situations or activities had been organized just for my benefit or to create a more favourable impression of the judicial system or the detention centre . |
| 8 | Frustrating as the long-drawn out debates since 1948 had been for the abolitionists , when the moment eventually came no-one could claim that Parliament was acting precipitately or foisting a highly controversial measure onto a nation that was unprepared . |
| 9 | You should either select this option again to perform further updates to the module ( or to a different module ) or select a completely new option . |
| 10 | Either Lucy was feeling chastened or doing a damn good act that way . |
| 11 | Do n't be tempted to practise specific exercises in between doing other jobs or to demonstrate a particularly good exercise to a friend . |
| 12 | Other ideas which might appeal are conservation work or playing a more active role in politics by joining your local party association . |
| 13 | On the basis that Scottish Amicable was not prepared to take a majority stake or play a more active role in the Bank of Edinburgh 's affairs — which is thought to be what the Bank of England wanted — then this was a circle that was unlikely ever to be squared . |
| 14 | For , you may have reserved ground for burial , or you may wish to be cremated , or to have a very simple funeral . |
| 15 | ‘ Touring on my own was good crack , but I wanted security and it was time to make a serious decision about the future — whether to become a lawyer ( and I had already started applying for jobs ) or to take a more businesslike approach to the music . ’ |
| 16 | However , she also found wide variation in the extent to which different social workers used the referral either to assess for a specific resource or to undertake a more general assessment of need and circumstances . |
| 17 | There were modest alternatives available to an antislavery readership but they either propounded the outlook of a minority tendency as did the Anti-Slavery Advocate , edited by the Irish Garrisonian Richard Webb in the 1850s , or had a predominantly local circulation as was likely with the short-lived Anti-Slavery Watchman of Manchester produced by the Garrisonian group around George Thompson and his son-in-law F. W. Chesson , or propounded a particular remedy for slavery in the case of the Quaker Richardson family in Newcastle through the Slave 's stress on the free produce movement . |
| 18 | Pinot Blanc wines in Champagne have more body than the Chardonnay and a greater alcoholic potential , but they lack finesse and usually remain neutral or possess a slightly earthy taste . |
| 19 | The Profitboss has the positive psychology of all successful people , a psychology which releases a surge of adrenalin whenever he experiences a setback or faces a seemingly insurmountable problem . |
| 20 | Arthur , you go along of Willie , because the Pritchards do n't sleep , you know , and in one way or another they 'll get you , or have a damn good try after the last business . |
| 21 | There can also be problems in ensuring a measure of concept-equivalence across societies , since what are nominally identical practices or institutions may perform varying functions , or have a very different significance . |
| 22 | It would thus appear that the choice lies between a fast , simple , single channel , open-loop system with a high incidence of error and a relatively slow , complex , multi-channel , closed-loop , more costly system that produces a much higher proportion of correct answers . |
| 23 | He did have the ambition to do more serious work , as he had in Saint Joan and he had done in those early days in rep , but suddenly , he had got sucked into a formula that became a very comfortable rut indeed and , surprisingly for those who thought they knew him well , he did n't want to find a way out . |
| 24 | Instead of the usual embarrassed note next morning , she leaves him the fragmentary manuscript of Rory 's own Crow Road : a folder of gnomic jottings and descriptions that represents a more substantial legacy than his father 's . |
| 25 | The proprietors could not do much more than launch a rather fragile settlement around Charleston , and even this could not be occupied continuously until 1681 . |
| 26 | I thought the two rivers both rising on Plynlimmon and then flowing their separate ways like brother and sister then meeting down under the Severn Bridge — I thought that provided a very nice theme for this beautiful border country |
| 27 | What is more , they really have not got the emotional energy to do this until the practical issues that beset a recently bereaved person have been sorted out . |
| 28 | He remembered a big elegant room — whose he never learnt — with wide-spaced deep leather chairs that created a literally hid-back atmosphere rather than one hunched over a table . |
| 29 | In his early thirties , he was very tall — and growing even taller the closer they got to him ! — with a shock of curly black hair that framed a deeply tanned face whose fierce , uncompromising features appeared chiselled from stone . |
| 30 | We shall now take a ferromagnetic material that has a very narrow hysteresis loop so that we can assume with good approximation a unique ( though of course nonlinear ) relationship between B and H. The material is again assumed to be of a toroidal shape but it is now excited by a current I flowing in a coil of N turns ( Fig. 3.13(a) ) . |