Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not enough for him to call individual sinners to God . |
| 2 | Even he had definite symptomatic and endoscopic benefit from additional radiotherapy and his general conditioned improved enough for him to undergo successful surgery . |
| 3 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |
| 4 | On the other hand we are fortunate indeed if we happen to be in a business that is so secure that it is enough for us to make effortless decisions that never require us to do more than flow along with established patterns . |
| 5 | Regardless of what returns Japanese investors are thought to require , the returns they have received were spectacular in 1980–89 . |
| 6 | The Local Authority decides the balance between social good and economic efficiency and Governing Bodies need to work together with them to negotiate favourable terms . |
| 7 | Stewart , who is retiring after guiding England for six years , watched four players who owe much to him play key roles . |
| 8 | Unless you 're a tenant , it 's down to you to make sure gas appliances receive the regular expert servicing they need . |
| 9 | If you 're the earner , and she 's looking after the children , it 's usually down to you to make regular payments for the children 's upkeep at least until they reach the age of seventeen — and longer if they 're still in education . |
| 10 | Sarah had spruced herself up ; she wore a long , royal-blue coat ova a blue dress of some silky material and she had a blue cloche hat pulled down over her straggling grey hair . |
| 11 | The court held that the council could not maintain the action : ‘ to allow such a thing would be wholly unprecedented and contrary to principle : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 806 , per Day J. There were two grounds of decision in effect , first , that a corporation might sue for a libel affecting property but not for one affecting personal reputation and , secondly , that the charge was one of bribery and corruption of which ( see the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co. case , 4 H. & N. 87 ) ‘ a corporation can not possibly be guilty : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 807 . |
| 12 | It is not for me to offer helpful advice to the right hon. Gentleman , but I shall do so : when in a hole , one should stop digging . |
| 13 | It is not for me to help Scottish Tories in those circumstances , but I suggest to them that it may have something to do with the way in which the Government treat Scotland in legislative terms . |
| 14 | It is not for us to make political decisions . |
| 15 | And where such statutory means are slow to act or uncertain of their action it is not for us to make pre-emptive strikes in the name of propriety . |
| 16 | Unsupported representations , whether oral or written , do not of themselves constitute sufficient audit evidence . |
| 17 | These are three simple and fairly obvious examples of protective devices with a topic that did not of itself require careful handling , but when at the end of the lesson they chose to extend their interest in hospitals in the future to ‘ finding a cure for cancer ’ quite suddenly the subject-matter has become more of a delicate one , with some taboos attached for both the pupils and the adults watching the lesson . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 19 | That child labour not only existed in the pre-factory economy but was strongly approved of does not of itself make blinkered sentimentalists of those who reacted so strongly to the " dark , satanic mills " . |
| 20 | Moreover , since postnominal position is not a device for marking emphasis as such , a mere desire for emphasis does not of itself make postnominal position possible . |
| 21 | Good organization structure does not of itself produce good performance … |
| 22 | ‘ In any civil proceedings a statement contained in a document produced by a computer shall … be admissible as evidence of any fact stated therein of which direct oral evidence would be admissible … ’ |
| 23 | Such regulations did not in themselves stop inhumane treatment , but they heralded a movement that has grown steadily on each side of the North Atlantic , both in numbers of its adherents and its influence on legislation . |
| 24 | This interpretation squares up with the survey 's finding that people were most likely to apply the critical comment ‘ you feel you 'd never finish paying ’ to the two types of credit which , though not in themselves necessitating long repayment schedules , tend to be associated with the larger loans which would impose long schedules on a ‘ rationed ’ consumer . |
| 25 | Even this would not in itself warrant lengthy description were it not for the fact that Verdun 's peculiarly sinister environment came to leave an imprint on men 's memories that stood apart from other battles of the First War ; and predominantly so in France where the nightmares it inspired lingered perniciously long years after the Armistice . |
| 26 | The research will not in itself provide practical solutions to the problems created by postlingual deaf speech . |
| 27 | The word dyslexia became a familiar label even though it did not in itself provide miraculous remedies for learning difficulties . |
| 28 | A further reason for caution with regard to RE through story is that knowing a story does not by itself provide sufficient safeguard against serious misunderstandings which can have far-reaching effects on people . |
| 29 | We argued that such statements reflect the growing consensus nationally about what constitutes good practice in the teaching of English . |
| 30 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |