Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , therefore , the lexical meaning of the verb has any negative or hypothetical value then by that very fact the speaker wholly or conditionally withdraws any assurance that the adjectival property will hold factually . |
| 2 | If it is required to cytogenetically demonstrate the activity or otherwise of paternally or maternally derived X chromosomes in cells of fetal origin , the first requirement is to mark one of them so that it can be distinguished from the other one . |
| 3 | Individuals acclimatize to cold , for example , by adjusting physically , physiologically or psychologically following cold exposure . |
| 4 | She learned quickly and eagerly and soon acquired sufficient know-how to join Anne Mowbray in the small schoolroom . |
| 5 | True the banks made hundreds of imprudent loans in the 1970s and early 1980s ; they could hardly get rid of their money fast enough and virtually begged Third World governments to take it off their hands . |
| 6 | The Board have made four suggestions of ways in which the landscape can be used better and so attract more people : |
| 7 | In a more romantic mode , it is as though a thousand lone voices have suddenly and unexpectedly found common cause in one majestic chorus , which is now drowning out the discordant notes heard from beyond the main stage . |
| 8 | Place the bulbs on a layer of fibre , then work in and gently firm more fibre around them . |
| 9 | see I was thinking this was gon na cost a lot , a lot of money to put the phone 's in , but its not , because you just put one line in and then put different bits up the line do n't you ? |
| 10 | ‘ Fine for a 1950s semi , but old buildings were n't intended to be hermetically sealed ; preventing moisture getting in and out causes real damage . ’ |
| 11 | Though owls , skuas and other predators move in and often enjoy successful breeding at their expense , the proliferating herbivores continue to outnumber them and to outpace the relatively low productivity of their food supply . |
| 12 | In a scene probably not that different to the one featured in the television ad , Hart knocked down and ultimately killed nine-year-old Sharon Townsend , mistaking the body beneath his wheels for ‘ a cardboard box ’ . |
| 13 | This patented technique removes the spikes ( or spurs ) from the radio signal just as the link is breaking down and also provides inaudible squelching . |
| 14 | You can imagine the population of th , of a nearby town , every now and again they would come down and perhaps throw some food over in this man 's direction a loaf of bread , a , a a a a a a , a hunk of meat or , some other food every now and again so he would keep alive . |
| 15 | Down there they will escape the buffetings of the storms to come and there too , where temperatures are much lower , their bodily process will slow down and so use less energy at a time in the year when there is little for these animals to eat . |
| 16 | And that sort of stuff used to go to America , because in er we had quite a big American market in those days because they did n't wash curtains in America , they used to put them up until they dar until they dropped down and then put new curtains up , you see ? |
| 17 | ‘ Tessa , Tessa , Tessa ! ’ said Dyson cheerfully , pressing his receiver rest down and then dialling another number . |
| 18 | The report said Romanian troops were hunting down and apparently executing anti-government demonstrators who escaped the killings in Timisoara . |
| 19 | The approach is primarily focused on helping patients resolve the crisis that has led to an overdose and on tackling their longer-term problems , largely using their own resources to do so and thereby developing greater ability to cope with stresses in future . |
| 20 | Beneath this the layer of ice was almost perfectly smooth , though occasionally an unseen force had pushed its plates together and upwards forming huge mountains amongst the hills and valleys . |
| 21 | Paul McCormack ( 23 ) was jailed for a year when he admitted culpably and recklessly throwing two trolleys on to the line from a railway bridge at Hope Street in Falkirk on April 13 last year . |
| 22 | For most gardeners the passing seasons each capture the imagination anew and also provide further inspiration and pleasure . |
| 23 | His views are taken to task by Lancelot , the hero of Kingsley 's Yeast ( 1848 ) : ‘ It may suit the Mr Lyles of this age … to make the people constantly and visibly comprehend that property is their protector and their friend , but I question whether it will suit the people themselves , unless they can make property understand that it owes them something more definite than protection . ’ |
| 24 | Like Mr Lyle at St Genevieve , Lord Valentine clearly wishes the people ‘ constantly and visibly to comprehend that Property is their protector and their friend ’ . |
| 25 | Section 14 of the Military Lands Act 1892 set out the general enabling power , but then went on to provide ‘ that no bylaws promulgated under this section shall authorise the Secretary of State to take away or prejudicially affect any right of common ’ . |
| 26 | Less tenable even than that situation are those in which no policy exists and well-intentioned initiatives such as those described above or smoothly functioning inter-disciplinary networks succeed because of personnel rather than the execution of a statement of intent . |
| 27 | In its Fourteenth Report , Offences Against the Person , Cmnd 7844 , the Criminal Law Revision Committee proposed replacing s.18 by " intentionally " causing serious injury , s.20 by recklessly causing serious injury , and s.47 by intentionally or recklessly causing serious injury . |
| 28 | ‘ did assault … ( specify person ) ’ Assault means an act which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence ( Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [ 1968 ] 3 All ER 445 ) . |
| 29 | Police Force ( or Constabulary ) ’ Assault means an act which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence ( Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [ 1968 ] 3 All ER 445 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Means an act which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence ( Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [ 1968 ] 3 All ER 445 ) . |