Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lifetable analysis — In a study of this kind , it is rarely possible to follow up every patient until they either relapse or successfully complete the trial . |
| 2 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 3 | Obviously this puts up the system cost over long distances . |
| 4 | It makes it much easier to understand how an advertisement appears in its appropriate medium , if you know how an agency works . |
| 5 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 6 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
| 7 | He accomplished much while director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , but today is apparently content to sit out the art world harbouring bitter memories of what might have been . |
| 8 | Rarely has a government been so hard-put to explain why a bill will benefit Britain . |
| 9 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 10 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 11 | While it is easy to understand why the drug makers pursue the will-of-the-wisp of the ultimate painkiller ; it is less easy to understand why the Committee on Safety of Medicines licenses them with no evidence of improvement in either safety or effectiveness . |
| 12 | Together these make up the content or syllabus of the course . |
| 13 | This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice . |
| 14 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 15 | Just tell me one last thing : as everyone is so busy wiping out the memory of the last 40 odd years , do you still want to keep your military headstone with its red star ? |
| 16 | ’ Especially when I told him you were highly unlikely to give up the phetam for me . ’ |
| 17 | and he would be only able to pick out a lot of the basic words , he could probably pick out the beginning of appreciation |
| 18 | The authority is wiser and therefore better able to establish how the individual should act . |
| 19 | The teacher may feel it is quicker and less tiring to carry out the task alone , or to ignore teaching opportunities . |
| 20 | IT is perhaps difficult to understand why The Rite of Spring caused a theatrical scandal when first it was danced in Paris in 1913 . |
| 21 | However , it seems fairly certain that the Moon is depleted in iron with respect to the Earth , not only in iron alone but also in iron-rich compounds because iron and these compounds are too dense to be sufficiently abundant to make up the iron abundance to that of the Earth . |
| 22 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 23 | It is because Britain will resist that idea in Malaysia that Whitehall is so anxious to build up a record of consultation , commitment and sympathy towards the majority in South Africa . |
| 24 | He did two more West End comedies , neither of which lasted three months , and theatre managements were suddenly less anxious to pick up the phone and plead with his agent . |
| 25 | In a series of estimates which have ranged from 25 or even 30 per cent to 8½ per cent ( was that really said ? ) there is obviously material to suit almost every taste . |
| 26 | The loose political consensus in the United States which produced the AT&T break-up of 1982–4 also hoped to encourage telephone deregulation in the rest of the world ; the AT&T high command were especially eager to enter both the computer business and the world market for telephone equipment . |
| 27 | Because we do not have the legs preserved , it is not possible to see how the mouth appendages functioned in feeding , and neither are the stomach contents preserved . |
| 28 | It is not possible to measure accurately the cost of meeting health care needs , the magnitude of health care needs , or their proxies , and then proxies of proxies , down the line . |
| 29 | It is not possible to review comprehensively the research into the micro-foundations here , and the reader is directed to Rotemberg ( 1987 ) for an interesting survey . |
| 30 | As Pahl ( 1988 ) points out , it is not possible to accept uncritically the idea that an underclass has emerged in British society . |