Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student will learn more effectively through identifying the particular needs and problems of each patient . |
| 2 | Described as ‘ blue wave ’ , The Hamsters have carved a niche in the music business not only for making the most appearances in gig guides everywhere , but also for the quality of their music . |
| 3 | A self-proclaimed poineer and the ‘ first man to go the whole hog ’ with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ‘ luxury end ’ of the market . |
| 4 | The focal point of this hotel is its fabulous pool and poolside bar set among lovely gardens where you can relax in between visiting the many attractions of the area . |
| 5 | Pointing the mortar joints had to be done long after laying the last blocks of the day , as the concrete absorbs very little moisture . |
| 6 | The nightmare which haunts Western Marxists is the dread that Marxism is simply a religion of the oppressed , capable only of destroying the worthwhile freedoms of ‘ bourgeois ’ democracy without creating a more liberated or egalitarian society ( Gouldner , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | The last thing either side wants is a public trial of strength which would probably succeed only in damaging the long-term interests of each . |
| 8 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 9 | These two types of feminist writing , one in , and the other beginning to go beyond , art history , work together in creating the proper conditions for knowledge about this European woman 's work . |
| 10 | He blamed the European Community being preoccupied with keeping farm gate prices down without applying the same rules to pubs and shops . |
| 11 | McGeechan puts that down to identifying the likely lads early and raising their sights to higher planes . |
| 12 | It would be difficult to draft measures which protected the minority who borrowed unwisely without depriving the large numbers of others , who knew how to use it wisely , of its benefits . |
| 13 | Plucky ‘ Wendy 's a plucky kid , and we could n't let her down by giving the wrong vibes . |
| 14 | This was to ensure that the sequences could not be rejected as sentences merely by reading the first words . |
| 15 | They did so by highlighting the unlovely features of a meritocracy , by celebrating the virtues of a robust working-class culture now being absorbed into an imitative and shallow middle-class orthodoxy , by demonstrating that the eleven-plus examination unintentionally favoured children from the better-off families , by proving that measures of intelligence were not independent of social class or cultural background , by eroding confidence in the scientific accuracy of what needed to be an objective and reliable measure . |
| 16 | It is sometimes said that if one wishes to reject such values one must do so by rejecting the very concepts incorporated in such words , and can not do this merely by applying their negation . |
| 17 | This indeed is the burden of Pound 's own poem , ‘ Near Perigord ’ , which argues that the puzzle of a particular poem by Bernard de Born — a historian 's puzzle about the reasons for certain historically recorded vents — is to be solved only by realizing the strategic implications of the location of Born 's own fortress of Hautefort . |
| 18 | It is a neat irony that only by studying the largest structures in the Universe can we get an insight into the smallest structure of matter . |
| 19 | Even if Nicu was intended to be their ultimate successor , he was not allowed to appear as dauphin , particularly not after making the critical remarks to his father about the economic problems and social conditions in Sibiu . |
| 20 | Some spread after the last glaciations , others have been there longer after surviving the glacial periods in ice-free refugia ( Lindsey , 1981 ) . |
| 21 | we 're gon na have to go through the exercise you 've been through of identifying the right ponds . |
| 22 | But if we behave normally like saying a few words to each other , the supervisors start shouting and harassing us . |
| 23 | Despite the hard line taken by the press about the rapists , they were not above sexualising the raped girls . |
| 24 | ( The recent trend in library and information science schools away from teaching the fundamental skills of cataloguing , classifying , indexing and so on has , therefore , in my view , been mistaken . ) |
| 25 | Nicola 's parents stayed at her bedside until 2.30am before snatching a few hours ' sleep in a room at the hospital . |
| 26 | Danforth 's failure to construct a compromise , however , fuelled Democrat charges that the President was interested not in achieving a civil rights bill based upon consensus , but in creating a potent campaign issue — the concept of quotas — for the 1992 elections . |
| 27 | This explains why parts of southern Scandinavia and eastern North America have figured prominently in highlighting the damaging effects of acid deposition on ecosystems . |
| 28 | However she has decided not to attended the integrated sessions until after her baby is born — sometime at the end of June . |
| 29 | Taking over someone else 's project when it 's half complete is never easy , there is little attraction for new blood to slog away at fulfilling the ambitious plans of others . |
| 30 | It was n't , blast it , one of those back seats that turn into a double bed or a discotheque just by twiddling a few knobs and wrenching your spine out of joint . |