Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Price rises were similar whether the illegal trade was detected by a stock exchange — which looks out for unusually large price jumps — or by tip-offs from jilted mistresses and the like , who probably do not . |
| 2 | Hence the lack of competition shows up in abnormally high airline costs . |
| 3 | There was a joke doing the rounds in art history faculties about the archetypal New Art Historian : invited to give a lecture , s/he turns up with only one slide . |
| 4 | The Grid boils down to only five behaviour patterns — the four extremes and the middle one . |
| 5 | Kant , in particular , comes in for very rough treatment . |
| 6 | I 'm not really an emotional person at all , just because I 'd rather ignore emotion than confront it , so when it comes down to really heavy shit it kinda just breezes right by me . |