Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its self-adjusting actions means that hair only absorbs as much lotion as it needs . |
| 2 | Although advertising is picking up after the recession , most in the industry only expect fairly modest growth . |
| 3 | Patients with Barrett 's oesophagus also had significantly lower median lower oesophageal sphincter pressures ( 9.5 v 17 mm Hg ; p=0.014 ) but there was no difference in any of the other manometric parameters . |
| 4 | At first Stuart had been excited by the sight of an occasional fish rising out of the sluggish water , but later he 'd grown bored because he was too small to row successfully , and trailing his hands over the side apparently disturbed the fish ; baling out with the old saucepan also made too much noise . |
| 5 | The number of people out of work in the North-East also rose slightly last month adding an extra 700 to the region 's dole queue . |
| 6 | At the confirmation stage the agent really has very little function because the necessary steps are taken by the Secretary of State . |
| 7 | In action , the field artillery particularly had even less cover than the infantry ; often reduced still further by officers of the old school of that notably proud French arm , ‘ La Reine des Batailles ’ , who believed ( and there were still many like them ) that to take cover under fire was almost cowardice . |
| 8 | She had already been removed to the Intensive Care Unit at the JR2 , but in the bedroom there seemed quite sufficient evidence that she had planned a deliberate departure . |
| 9 | It has been argued that continuous agriculture could be maintained if a closed nutrient cycle could be achieved , the canopy not perforated so that leaching would be prevented and the forest floor would not deteriorate , and if nutrients were added to equal those exported as crops and the diversity of species maintained . |
| 10 | Admittedly , they are sufficiently erratic to give point to the Treasury 's plea not to place too much weight on each month 's figures . |
| 11 | Chapman ( 1984b , pp. 1–2 ) points similarly to the downgrading of ‘ management ’ within ‘ the administrative culture of the British Civil Service ’ , and Howells ( 1981 ) to the contrast with attitudes in the private sector where managerial work generally carries much higher prestige than in Whitehall . |
| 12 | When the Guggenheim Museum finally re-opens later this month ( 28 June ) , after what seem like decades of restoration and renovation , visitors will step into Wright 's great rotunda and , looking up along the famous spiralling ramp , see … no art at all ! |
| 13 | The campaign desperately needs more disused climbing rope to link the stages . |
| 14 | He liked to find a safe way to get an accurate hit thus sustaining as little damage to the plane as possible . |
| 15 | A higher proportion also had only one child , but that is primarily due to the very high proportion of divorced women in this tenure ( in the 1946 birth cohort , 32 per cent of women who were council tenants were divorced by age 36 ) . |
| 16 | The private sector probably has even more flexibility to find imaginative ways of addressing those issues than the statutory services ; I think we ought to be prepared to give backing . |
| 17 | A south facing conservatory often receives so much sun and heat in the summer that it is not necessarily suitable for daytime entertaining , unless adequately ventilated and fitted with blinds . |
| 18 | The manifesto then proposes more democratic control over education and leisure , an end to the financing of two distinct educational systems , an increase in old-age pensions , and more facilities for the handicapped . |
| 19 | In order to teach your child how to act under one set of circumstances but not another , train her to identify the cues that differentiate between the appropriate and inappropriate circumstances . |
| 20 | Residence therein entailed rather intensive supervision : outside doors were locked at night ; those whose behaviour did not meet the strict standards of the lady visitors were evicted . |
| 21 | The desire not to reveal too much information to the other side is , however , a major reason for delay in the civil justice system , as well as causing expense . |
| 22 | Moreover , whilst the first group usually have only intermediate level qualifications and are performing non-executive , non-developmental tasks , the second have higher level qualifications and perform developmental and even managerial tasks . |
| 23 | ‘ This meeting , the largest outdoor meeting ever held under one roof in Britain , is the culmination of a great national campaign … . ’ |
| 24 | " 'Ladies and gentlemen … this meeting , the largest indoor meeting ever held under one roof in Britain , is the culmination of a great national campaign in which audiences of every city in this land have gathered to hear the fascist case … |
| 25 | You have n't that chapter for the rest of the year and say the teacher probably thinks well this child and |
| 26 | The team also found that long term potentiation led to the persistent elevation of cAMP in the cells , while short term potentiation was associated with only a transient elevation of cAMP . |
| 27 | A high proportion of the deputies ( over 40 per cent ) were ordinary workers , but the membership also included all important party and government figures . |
| 28 | As the music business increasingly places so much importance on the look ( A & R men no longer listen to the music first : the priority of the A & R man is to envisage how the band will look on video ) so The Smiths abhor such methods . |
| 29 | This site frequently receives very clean air masses from the Southern Ocean which have had no contact with land for many days . |
| 30 | Some countries that are very much exercised about the alien danger actually have very little immigration . |