Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradshaw rather unwisely greeted McLean 's arrival in the ring by nutting him . |
| 2 | Mozart 's 17 piano sonatas also show Haydn 's influence , but , like much of his music , works such as No 8 in A minor and No 14 in C minor betray a depth of emotion which only rarely invests Haydn 's music . |
| 3 | ‘ I was standing by the graveside and one of the Kavanagh sisters had said to Helen Moloney , Katherine 's sister : ‘ It 's perfectly all right to use Patrick 's grave . |
| 4 | My torch failed , and I found my hands too cold to fix it , so just followed Charlie 's light from stance to stance . |
| 5 | Lancaster only just tolerated Douglas 's interference , partly for old time 's sake and partly because Lancaster admired Kirk for daring to slight Hollywood 's conservatives by openly using blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on Spartacus . |
| 6 | Joshua fills out the details of the orders , but in doing so clearly reads God 's mind , for he comes in for no heavenly rebuke . |
| 7 | The thaw which had so earnestly menaced France 's lifeline to Verdun became , on balance , more her ally than her foe ; it turned the pulverised earth into a glutinous quagmire that sucked off the close-fitting knee-boots of the German infantry ; the 8-ton howitzers sank up to their axles in it , and the Germans ' new motor tractors were too few and too under-powered to extract them . |
| 8 | No country has so far recognised Bougainville 's claim to independence . |
| 9 | Instead , Benjamin embraced the principle of collage and montage of Dada and surrealism , which so radically violated Adorno 's principle of the organic unity of style . |
| 10 | It was clear from Artai 's expression that he wished to show that he did not entirely believe Burun 's protest . |
| 11 | Another is that earnings yields do not necessarily measure investors ' claim on a firm 's cash flow . |
| 12 | But that is again not enough to explain God 's reaction . |
| 13 | Two days after the debate , on 6th August , 1859 , a leader appeared in The Times which not only questioned Scott 's suitability for the appointment , but also the new attitude of the professional architect towards his client . |
| 14 | For Napoleon III the defeat was doubly fatal in that it not only revealed France 's weakness but also underlined the extent to which Prussia had now become a major power . |
| 15 | It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate . |
| 16 | It is even possible that Gloucester 's claims of another plot against him were intended not only to justify Hastings ' removal but to impress the council with the gravity of the situation and make them more disposed , not less , to back Gloucester 's leadership as the one hope of stability in a worsening political climate . |
| 17 | Since 1956 , not only has Stalin 's role been sharply revised downwards , but new studies have been undertaken on every aspect of the revolution . |
| 18 | This example not only illustrates Sylvester 's law ; it also makes the important point that the degeneracy of the product depends on the relative positions of the units , and therefore of the linearly independent columns , in the two factors . |
| 19 | But the death of John not only confirmed Wordsworth 's adherence to these opinions ; it undermined his former self-sufficiency and cast doubts upon the validity of poetry . |
| 20 | By a bold and imaginative decision , Urban not only answered Alexius 's call — though hardly in the way he had intended — but roused the enthusiasm of Christendom , restored the credit of the papacy and ruined the prestige of the emperor . |
| 21 | This far underground , not only did Mait 's enhancer have no effect , but he could sense a strong source of pure malevolence which was almost tangibly present all around . |
| 22 | Not only did David 's suggestion earn him a Winning Ideas Gold Award and the tidy sum of £1,000 but also a luxury trip to the Imola San Marino Grand Prix . |
| 23 | The next time was in the 1940's — Sergeant Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in St Roche , a specially built two-masted schooner with auxiliary engine , not only repeated Amundsen 's success but also made the passage from west to east . |
| 24 | In this second part Engels not only follows Morgan 's sequence , he follows Morgan 's method concerning three key points . |
| 25 | Durkheim and Weber , two immensely influential figures , spent a great deal of time not merely defining sociology 's subject matter , but arguing for and demonstrating what the consequences of each of their different conceptions might amount to as a disciplined inquiry . |
| 26 | Stuart was leaning over backwards to see Oliver 's point of view . |
| 27 | We do not just consider Mendel 's theory in isolation . |
| 28 | The effectiveness of that is not just to make Ransom 's struggle real , but also to demonstrate the metaphysical excitement of all moral choices , on the silent planet as well as beyond the music of the spheres . |
| 29 | ‘ He wants you , not Sammy or anyone else , and if you wo n't do it , then you 're not just putting Ellen 's money at risk , but you 're putting my commission on the line too , and I might not like that . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Given that an angry parent might just conceivably break Gray 's neck for , as you put it , touching up his youngster , why should he go to the trouble of severing the head , and then putting it in the Cathedral font ? |