Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 2 | Having said all that , I think the interest erm of history lies in exactly the same kind of area as interest in the future , in the sense that we are dealing erm as historians with time , and , to use the old cliché , time marches on , it certainly moves , and the future , the present and the past do form some kind of continuum . |
| 3 | The first two examples discussed below illustrate different ways in which the linguistic model is used to develop a narrative model , and the third , Genette 's Narrative Discourse ( which does not use strictly linguistic analytical categories ) , illustrates somewhat differently the structuralist preoccupation with abstract models rather than with individual texts . |
| 4 | If you buy from a market stall that counts as b that counts in exactly the same way as buying from any other er high street retailer . |
| 5 | The Concorde post , which observers have unkindly suggested should disqualify the incumbent from any positions of responsibility in the future , was held between 1966 and 1970 by Sir James Hamilton , who holds down today a key position within the bureaucracy of the Department of Education and science . |
| 6 | The neighbouring householder , however , earns only £15,000 — he lives in exactly the same sortof house , but has only half the income of his neighbour and , again , only one other person lives in the house , his non-working wife who brings in nothing . |
| 7 | Now he lives in quite a large house . |
| 8 | A lease , because of the involvement of the landlord ( who is not or who at any rate in his capacity as landlord is not a member of the firm ) , needs not only an appropriate declaration that the named partners joined as lessees hold the term on trust but also : ( a ) a declaration that possession of the demised premises by partners who are not trustees of the lease shall not by itself constitute a breach of the usual covenants against parting with or sharing possession ; ( b ) a provision which dispenses with the landlord 's consent ( or makes it automatic ) to an assignment of the demised premises to partners other than the original lessees or to the vesting of the premises in new trustees for the firm . |
| 9 | We have had a marvellous season with thankfully no major accidents and also the best of racing , particularly at the Ulster Grand Prix and the Tandragee 100 , so perhaps we can be forgiven for forgetting that racing needs not only the top line competitors like Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid it needs the newcomers to help the sport thrive and we are just not getting enough of them . |
| 10 | This review covers not only the individual site needs but also items of group interest and company policy reviews . |
| 11 | The mode of entry described above covers not only the administrative class of the Home Civil Service , but also certain clerkships in the House of Commons , the administrative class of the Northern Ireland Civil Service , and the diplomatic service . |
| 12 | In this view , an object has not just a single history but all possible histories . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 14 | It contains not only a personal element but a property element . |
| 15 | This comprehensive kit contains not only a printed canvas , but also a full size coloured chart , wool card , detailed instructions and needles . |
| 16 | A quarter of the Japanese population , some 30 million people , live in the most exposed area which also contains not only the vast bulk of the business community but also an alarming quantity of chemical plants . |
| 17 | He holds not only a gutted Diamond-back but a pose ordained as well as caught by the photographer . |
| 18 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 19 | No other material illustrates more vividly the political consternation and diplomatic uncertainty attendant on the accession of a new king . |
| 20 | In his discussion of the decay of English myth , he holds out only the slender hope of the music hall and laments that in general modern dramatists and probably modern audiences are ‘ terrified of the myth ’ . |
| 21 | Despite the uningratiating recording quality , Bernstein 's earlier NYPO ( Sony ) recording still casts a magnetic spell , even if certain details are pulled out of focus long the way ( the DG remake has n't quite the same sparkle and energy ) . |
| 22 | One wonders how long the old church can survive . |
| 23 | In some political systems it has indeed practically no other function . |
| 24 | This is consistent with the observations of the microwave background radiation , which show that it has almost exactly the same intensity in any direction . |
| 25 | She is not hurt by what I have said , she thought , she is neither hurt nor angry , she does not understand what I have said , her mind is losing the powers of comprehension and she has no longer an emotional response . |
| 26 | One method in particular , kriging ( now available as part of the UNIRAS software ) , offers not only a contoured surface but also an estimate of the standard error at any point on the map . |
| 27 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 28 | In a bottlenecked life cycle , every fresh generation marches through approximately the same parade of events . |
| 29 | In some ways this boom is even more extraordinary , because it represents not only a new taste but a subtly different attitude towards works of art . |
| 30 | A wrongful possession of land for twelve years , or of goods for six years , destroys not only the former owner 's right to recover the land or goods by action , but also his title ; and so the possessor has the best of titles known to the law — a possession which no one can dispute . |