Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 3 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 4 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 5 | This measure was introduced in 1978 and protection only applies therefore from this date . |
| 6 | Mr Amess not only approves warmly of capital punishment , but has volunteered to ‘ pull the lever myself ’ . |
| 7 | Although use will be made of the concepts discussed above , the experiment reported below does not in any way test various theories of plural reference resolution . |
| 8 | Here , there is no conferring , and Jack impulsively leaps forward with raised knife to kill it . |
| 9 | some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 10 | Some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 11 | This should be set so that it only comes out under considerable pressure . |
| 12 | The first thing to remember is that as you turn the boat away from the wind , you let out the mainsheet , the sail only works properly at one angle to the wind and so it 's essential to let out the mainsheet as you bear away . |
| 13 | However , the subject of commission rarely crops up with major artists . |
| 14 | Lynda Moss agrees : ‘ 1,1,1-trichloroethane rarely crops up in published syntheses — a heck of a lot of syntheses use methylene chloride [ dichloromethane ] however ’ . |
| 15 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’ |
| 16 | On the other hand , the LIMB database generally receives up to ten copies of each item , so it is possible to send out copies for retention to requesting librarians , and a loan system is regarded as administratively cumbersome . |
| 17 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 18 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |
| 19 | The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children . |
| 20 | For a discipline that generally deals simplistically with social relations , and rarely studies its own or its subjects ' histories , such an approach is especially important . |
| 21 | This condition generally responds rapidly to simple treatment . |
| 22 | This condition generally responds rapidly to simple treatment . |
| 23 | Whereas Americans have grown accustomed to participation at the cost of policy coherence , and Europeans to a more professional and collegial structure which risks shackling politicians to the imperatives of officials , the Soviet system at its best avoids both of these pitfalls . |
| 24 | Racism just boils down to ruling-class propaganda ; you 've only got to look at the popular Tory press , churning it out day after day , all owned and controlled by capitalists who 've got a direct interest in setting white workers against black and undermining the unity of the working class . |
| 25 | She just appears out of thin air- ’ At this point Mildred broke off and looked around in case she had done just that , but she had n't . |
| 26 | But Trogus soon falls back into imaginary history when he tells the episode of the chieftain Catumarandus , who had been persuaded in a dream by a goddess to make peace with Massalia . |
| 27 | Much of Husameddin 's argument on the question of Molla Fenari 's death date thus falls down on close examination , but there does remain one compelling piece of evidence for his conclusion , namely the document apparently bearing Molla Fenari " s signature and dated Rabi " II 838/ November 1434 : in a real sense all else depends on this . |
| 28 | The Coca Cola international triathlon at Portaferry on July 3 , which normally attracts upwards of 25,000 spectators , will be a good test for the Belfast student as it features the coldest swim of any triathlon in the world . |
| 29 | The latter is a very slow growing starter and is happier without peat at planting time — in fact , it grows best for me in builder 's rubble and when it does get going soon catches up on lost time . |
| 30 | A rich soil soon becomes home to rampant weeds which smother less competitive , more attractive plants . |