Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have an advertisement for CIA survival knives which states that it ’ is a superb high tech fibreglass filled nylon construction knife which weighs just 20 gm. due to its double edge , spear point and double fluted reinforced spine , tremendous plunging power — it can literally be driven straight through a telephone directory ( remains undetected by airport metal detectors ) ’ . |
| 2 | Their curvatures can only be obtained rigorously from the solution of Einstein 's equation . |
| 3 | In the 15 subjects in whom antral and upper intestinal recordings were not available , the relation to phase 3 of the migrating motor complex could only be determined indirectly by the temporal relation of non-deglutitive pressure waves in the oesophageal body with the non-deglutitive plastic contractions of the lower oesophageal sphincter ( this represented the sphincteric component of phase 3 of the migrating motor complex that occurred during the 10- 15 minute period preceding phase 3 in the antrum or proximal jejunum , as shown previously by others . ) |
| 4 | Large figures , carved into the chalk hillside , such as the Uffington Horse , the Long Man of Wilmington and the Cerne Abbas Giant , are well known , but these figures were something very different : they were enormous earth sculptures which could only be seen properly from the air or on a map . |
| 5 | Two male Siamese Fighting Fish , though small , could only be kept together in a huge heavily-planted tank . |
| 6 | Artistic director Michael Barnes revealed today that the Opera House , devastated by a terrorist bomb in May , will only be refurbished partially by the re-opening date . |
| 7 | Whole ones need only be fried lightly in a little butter and served hot with a wedge of lemon . |
| 8 | Once it crosses the centre-line it can only be used immediately as a back fist . |
| 9 | Unions also opposed a further government emergency measure of June 26 , creating a new wage indexing mechanism , which could only be used twice in a year and which forbade employers to pass on increased wage costs to consumers through higher prices . |
| 10 | The cylinder index ( and any higher indexes ) will only be referenced once at the start of the run . |
| 11 | Since the actual amount needed can only be known accurately at the end of the life of the asset , which in turn may not be known in advance of the event , it is necessary to estimate both . |
| 12 | Since the actual amount needed can only be known accurately at the end of the life of the asset , which in turn may not be known in advance of the event , it is necessary to estimate both . |
| 13 | This method of looking at cultural objects , developed chiefly by German and American scholars at the turn of the century , assumes in its extreme form that complex and exotic techniques can only be invented once in the history of mankind . |
| 14 | They can only be set aside for a time . |
| 15 | This does mean that re-entry or back to nursing courses presently operating will not necessarily be approved retrospectively for the purpose by the National Boards . |
| 16 | The actual sky colour ‘ blue ’ may not necessarily be found straight from the tube . |
| 17 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S involvement in undermining attempts to freeze carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 ( Guardian , November 8 ) should perhaps be viewed together with the Department of Transport 's recently announced road-building programme , and projections that UK road traffic will increase by about 43 per cent over the next 20-30 years . |
| 18 | If intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation is to be used it should perhaps be introduced early in the management of such patients to prevent inexorable deterioration in renal function , rather than late in an effort to reverse such deterioration . |
| 19 | If a copied gene is present in an ingredient which was under current rules , it did not need to be listed , the declaration about its presence should nevertheless be made either in the ingredients list or next to the name of the er , food . |
| 20 | However , the criterion of proportionality is not incorporated in that , since on the basis of that criterion legislation which is necessary for the attainment of the objective in question , and therefore does not exceed what is necessary , must nevertheless be set aside by the member state . |
| 21 | A discipline that is structurally diverse , and consists of a loosely related collection of sub-fields might nevertheless be held together by a common ethos or set of norms , attitudes and habits ; even by a common style . |
| 22 | You could soon be flying away for an exciting holiday in Reims , the heart of Champagne country — all it takes is three questions and a little imaginative sparkle ! |
| 23 | Miss Clinton had taken it away with the wheel still loose and would soon be driving northward over a narrow moorland road that a few miles beyond the road-bridge over the river wound along the shelf of a mountain with a sheer , dizzy drop on one side . |
| 24 | At this temperature atoms form a ‘ plasma ’ which carries an electric charge and can thus be kept away from the walls of the container by a magnetic field . |
| 25 | The lavatory could thus be flushed even during a rainless summer , either by an attendant outside the lavatory or by the user ( Figure 21 ) . |
| 26 | That can no longer be done primarily at the national level ; it requires a socialist , European strategy . |
| 27 | Out-door paupers should no longer be sent away with a sum of money obviously too little for survival . |
| 28 | For some purposes the action project in operation can best be described directly by the development officers and their support workers ( see for example Murphy and Rapley , 1986 ) . |
| 29 | A leader may just be needed occasionally as a ‘ long stop ’ . |
| 30 | This is known , for reasons that I 'll point out in a second , as a macroscopic technique , and the currents were usually identified through replacement of ions selectively , and of course this can generally be done only in the external medium , because you do n't have control over the internal medium . |