Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the 60s we watched incredulously as the HVS category bulged evermore lopsidedly as these great pioneers stuffed it with their goodies — Wombat , Carnage , Macabre , Vagabond , Sundance Wall — today as touch a collection of E points as you 'll find anywhere . |
| 2 | Most of these bars have live music , and all have staggered happy hours ( or is it happy stagger hour ? ! ) , so with a bit of forward planning we make sure your budget goes as far as possible . |
| 3 | The Anisminic decision goes much further than this and says in effect that A 's decision can be set aside by the courts if they disagree with his interpretation of the rules which he is required to apply . |
| 4 | Although some of the distinctive lexis of the London variety of Jamaican Creole may have its origins in Rasta speech , there is no clear evidence that Rastafarian influence on the structure of the Creole goes any further than that . |
| 5 | It is good practice for a trainee to be given the opportunity to work in more than one department to broaden his experience . |
| 6 | Even when Bevin as British foreign secretary speedily found himself entangled in tough disputes with the USSR , this did not lead him to follow Churchill 's line that Britain had of necessity to work as closely as possible with the United States . |
| 7 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |
| 8 | The lower marble fragment from Delos stood in the same way , and no doubt the upper also ; and throughout the archaic age the naked male statue stands always just as these . |
| 9 | Nazi thugs burn down Sony 's Berlin premises : Chancellor Kohl wins big cheers when he says the perpetrators are just high-spirited hooligans , reminds listeners that German-Japanese friendship goes back more than 50 years . |
| 10 | From 1 January 1994 underwriting agents will only be permitted to act as combined agents with Council consent if the agent has not more than 100 members , or it appears that the members ' agency function is sufficiently autonomous , or in the case of a combined agent whose members ' agency function is limited to run-off , it appears to be in members ' interests . |
| 11 | It is accordingly the main aim of this chapter to indicate as far as possible how The Silmarillion in particular should be read . |
| 12 | This will give you enough width to work on more than one cable pattern at a time . |
| 13 | Prior to Puhlhofer , failure to obtain leave to proceed by judicial review occurred in less than 10 per cent of the applications . |
| 14 | ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did . |
| 15 | The copula occurs as frequently as twelve times ( out of sixty-five main verbs ) , and other categories of verb which are prominent include those denoting attitudes ( hesitated , liked , treating , etc ) , cognitions ( known , supposed , reflected , etc ) , speech acts ( speak , repeated , address , invited , etc ) , and perceptions ( hear , looked , appear , etc ) . |
| 16 | The new discs were also hill-and-dale , recorded with a relatively fine groove-pitch of 150 lines per inch , so a ten-inch side played rather longer than usual ( about five minutes ) . |
| 17 | Through its national resources centre , by collaboration with university departments and other academics , community-based and government bodies , in promoting conferences , workshops and seminars , and supporting a visiting fellows programme , CRER hopes to disseminate its research results as widely as possible . |
| 18 | Following President Galtieri 's 75% increase of the levy on non-Argentine mining interests around the South Pole , violence flared up again as British wildcat oilmen tried to even the score after their resounding defeat in the Malvinas War of 1981 . |
| 19 | The Abyssinians could claim an uninterrupted succession going back more than two thousand years ; in Africa , only Egypt had a more ancient civilization . |
| 20 | Merseyside 's Patricia Routledge plays the divine Mrs B to such comic perfection that the programme reels in more than 13 million viewers a show . |
| 21 | Results showed that the President obtained slightly less than 82 per cent of the vote ( in 1985 he claimed to have received 100 per cent — p. 33963 ) , with his strongest constituency in rural areas . |
| 22 | As Pacey said of Dudek — he could never say it of Layton ! — ‘ ( his strength ) lies in his serious attempt to give as purely as possible the experience which is pure and isolated in his own mind , ’ a view which is offended by the notion of ‘ popular culture ’ and the torch-carrying it requires . |
| 23 | Conversely , the statutes may provide that a government agency or a financial institution holding not less than 30 per cent of the registered capital may exercise voting rights of 51 per cent of the shareholders . |
| 24 | Fowler inaugurated the introduction of line production in locomotive repairs , greatly reducing time spent in workshops , and a firm standardization programme to reduce as rapidly as possible the 393 individual locomotive types inherited by the LMS . |
| 25 | We have no intention to emigrate so far as present plans are concerned . |
| 26 | For really large systems this will have the consequence that the only paths which contribute significantly to the final result will be those in a region where the action changes as slowly as possible , since here the cancellations are minimised . |
| 27 | Mr John Greenway 's solid work in the constituency was rewarded with a 17,439 majority after his vote went up more than 4,000 to 39,888 . |
| 28 | ‘ I wouldn'a go as far as that , ’ Reid reproved me . |
| 29 | According to the mid-year estimates the ‘ remoter , largely rural districts ’ experienced their highest rates of net immigration between 1971 and 1974 , while at the other end of the national urban hierarchy London 's rate of net migration loss peaked as early as 1970/71 ( Champion , 1981b ; Britton , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | Methotrexate works more quickly than mercaptopurine and azathioprine , and steroid sparing has been shown to be one of its advantages . |