Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How does all this come out in actual figures ? |
| 2 | And he knows his next clanger will trigger yet another repeat showing — as well as threatening the first-team place he has worked so hard to hold down at table-topping Blackburn . |
| 3 | Together these add up to good badger country . |
| 4 | On collecting these names I began to wonder whether I was being taken in but so many came up on independent lists that the villagers sent in that I am sure they are authentic . |
| 5 | He accepts it 's extremely difficult to come up with conclusive evidence that violent films cause violent behaviour , but that a series of studies in America 20 years ago suggested it was a factor . |
| 6 | The whole genotype controlling size in an individual would then be impossibly difficult to work out by Mendelian breeding experiments . |
| 7 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 8 | Even if the student is not able to come up with alternative offerings of his or her own , at least he or she can say with some honesty : ‘ I believe that to be the case , and this is why . ’ |
| 9 | England 's external wars were fought principally in France , so most Englishmen had little direct experience of warfare , apart from those in the north , where relations with Scotland were always likely to break out into open hostility . |
| 10 | Partners who divorce are more likely to end up as local authority tenants even if they were previously owner-occupiers ( Holmans , Nandy , and Brown 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Yet the schools they attend are , on the whole , not as good in terms of status , teacher input and , sometimes , physical surroundings ; they make less use of the educational system beyond the compulsory school stage ; they are less likely to pass government examinations and go on to university ; and they are far more likely to end up in manual occupations , just like their fathers and mothers . |
| 12 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 13 | However , we believe that those who are determined to understand a phenomenon and to follow their research and their intuition wherever they may lead , are on the balance of probabilities , perhaps more likely to come up with new knowledge than those who are trying to solve a narrowly defined problem or to develop a product . |
| 14 | Both Soviet and foreign estimates of the numbers threatened with starvation and death over the period 1921–2 varied enormously , and no amount of detailed research is ever likely to come up with reliable figures . |
| 15 | A council spokesman said : ‘ All employees are issued with identity cards which they are always happy to hand over for close inspection . |
| 16 | The level of material is also hard to pin down with workable definitions . |
| 17 | Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time . |
| 18 | After the biplane era , Spencer Flack 's ‘ toy department ’ was now ready to move on to serious play . |
| 19 | It is even possible to take off from well-hosed grass in a lightly-loaded floatplane — and again , this technique is frequently used after conversion in the States . |
| 20 | And he 's always particularly keen to come up with original melodies . |
| 21 | And here , here am I , and then I 'll say you know of course I you know I 'm indebted to you because I realize that , you know , Anna-Marie is quite prepared to go out with other men if she wants |
| 22 | Early on the FTSE peaked 19.1 ahead after Tokyo provided an early boost , closing almost 350 points up on new-found optimism about the Japanese economy . |
| 23 | But Sun/Star readers were less interested in politics even than Mirror readers ; and they were the least likely to tune in to highbrow news programmes such as Newsnight , Channel 4 News , or Radio 4 news . |
| 24 | Unsolicited enquiries are dealt with by telephone and post ; sometimes these come in via other departments . |
| 25 | Mary 's quite good coming up with new ideas and new lines of thought on various subjects |
| 26 | But fretbuzz is a very subjective thing ; I 've met a number of players who will sacrifice all for a low playing action and are quite happy to put up with extraneous noises that others would run a mile to avoid . |
| 27 | He was said to have caused an inordinate number of retakes when unable to keep up with fellow Afghans in an attack scene . |
| 28 | Some present MPs think it has already " become all too easy to opt out of real responsibility at Westminster by immersion in constituency work " . |
| 29 | And I would recommend we just stick with something very basic to start off with like paracetamol , two four times a day Something so very very simple like that . |
| 30 | Excuse my ignorance , but living in the ‘ plains ’ of the US makes it very hard to keep up with English soccer ( er , football ! ) especially Leeds a team that I 've benn supporting for close to 20 years now . |