Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To human eyes many of the body markings appear to be beautiful and highly conspicuous , but this is because we so often see them in artificial environments where their camouflage quality fails to show itself .
2 The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them .
3 Only the Faroese now still hunt them in large numbers .
4 The teacher may also wish the software to offer the opportunity for extension work , to draw the subject being studied out further relate it to other subject areas , raise issues and add a new dime to the work e.g. the software on the economy allows pupils to skills of manipulating variables and such skills are cross-curricular Often the same course can be duplicated , to advantage , us microcomputer program .
5 His sanctimoniousness and hypocrisy make some people around here regard him with great distaste .
6 At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage .
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