Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that girls may be given fancier names because this fits in with a traditionally feminine image while the common masculine-sounding names for boy babies , like Richard , David , James and Alexander , would ostensibly give a boy fewer problems than Tarquin or Marmaduke . |
| 2 | The whole enterprise is carried through with panache and — apart from the fact that it clocks in at a rather miserly total of only 52 minutes — the disc can be thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants a well-chosen selection of G&S numbers . |
| 3 | The student starts off with a fairly definite hold on the world , built on reasonably stable concepts and ideas , but at the end of the course has grasped that very little of the intellectual world has enduring substance and that there are always more cognitive spectacles to put on . |
| 4 | One way of putting this difference between the bounded nature of research and the comparatively unbounded nature of higher education is to say that , in research , the researcher starts off with a fairly hazy idea of what might emerge and ends with a precise formulation or conclusion , whereas in higher education , this is reversed . |
| 5 | He describes a ‘ good-enough mother ’ ( i.e. , a mother as good at being a mother as any of us can expect either to have or to be ) as someone who ‘ starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant 's needs , and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely , gradually according to the infant 's growing ability to deal with her failure . ’ |
| 6 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 7 | This adds up to a very substantial collection , and I hope before too long we may find another set with the Organ and Piano Concertos , along with Prêtre 's recordings of the Gloria and Stabat Mater ( the earlier one with Régine Crespin ) and the almost unknown Sept Responses des Ténèbres , a simply glorious choral and orchestral piece with Prêtre recorded in 1983 and which appeared on a Pathé Marconi LP in 1984 . |
| 8 | Although all of this adds up to a fairly persuasive case in favour of certain types of co-operative R&D in certain circumstances , the case is not strong enough to suggest that all types of ventures will have positive ( or even benign ) effects on social welfare . |
| 9 | If you ask me , that adds up to a highly questionable scenario . ’ |
| 10 | The frescoes by Tobias Stimmer date from the sixteenth century , and it all adds up to a quite wonderful example of late German Renaissance . |
| 11 | It adds up to an amazingly generous £100 per month . |
| 12 | While most thoughts are still on London , RUNNING Magazine 's Publisher Nick Williams looks back on a very different kind of marathon at Lanzarote 's Club La Santa |
| 13 | Before my right hon. Friend passes on to a specifically Scottish aspect , I wish to raise a general point . |
| 14 | The Aeronca is very definitely a machine from which to appreciate the fun side of flying , as the countryside passes by in a very relaxed fashion . |
| 15 | The month kicks off with the Not-So Innocent Bystanders ' production of ‘ 3 Steps to Heaven ’ , a new music theatre piece by writer/performer Helen Trew , and directed by local actor Richard Orr . |
| 16 | LIVERPOOL 'S Irish Sea trade has been strengthened as the port 's Coastal Container Line links in to the most modern container terminal in Britain . |
| 17 | As the varnish dries , so the egg tempera closes up into a perfectly fine line . |
| 18 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 19 | … however worthy the original intention it is almost inevitable that one ends up with a pretty fair rag-bag and that a carefully drawn long title offers no real defence . |
| 20 | Try to avoid an approach which ends up with a very small amount of airbrake . |
| 21 | The danger in viewing the organisation as a purposeful entity is that one ends up with a highly abstract and artificial analysis . |
| 22 | One group of Ps ends up at a very similar position to this . |
| 23 | If such measures lead to replacement of all today 's inefficient equipment as it wears out by the most efficient equipment now on the market , Sweden will need only 111 TWh of electricity in 2010 , rather than 140 TWh . |
| 24 | One is that it displaces wage costs out of the more expensive core to the somewhat cheaper periphery ; another is that it leads to stable long-term relations with suppliers which open up multi-directional flows of information between the partners in the subcontracting network . |
| 25 | This of course harks back to the much older debate about whether memories can be localized — something I 'll come back to later , ; much of the next two chapters will be taken up with the question of the localization of memory in space and time . |
| 26 | This ties in with a generally romantic view of sexual expression denying this to anyone with any degree of physical or mental impairment ( Strean , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | I mentioned in my original article that at its upper end the Minuet spills over into the very fast dance the Viennese called a ‘ Deutsche ’ or ‘ Teutch ’ ( Mozart : ‘ Teitsch ’ ) . |
| 28 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 29 | It complements EE in many ways and builds into a living encyclopaedia of electronics which keeps up with the ever advancing world of technology through regular updates/supplements . |
| 30 | What I would like to think is is that we put together an annual report for our own purposes , and that goes out to a very limited distribution , as Trevor was suggesting . |