Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was , in terms of the law , the better witness , did not rail or curse as wildly as her opponent and rival — the widow , at one point , fell to the ground in convulsions , twitching and flailing . |
| 2 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 3 | Integrity , combined with wariness , pride , and the kind of stoic endurance that accompanied an understanding of suffering , a loss of innocence that went as deep as the soul . |
| 4 | Had anyone been looking in the direction of Miss Danziger they would have observed a faint smile gathering at the corners of her mouth and fading as quickly as it formed . |
| 5 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 6 | Then he was back in the car and moving away almost before she 'd unlocked the door . |
| 7 | I stopped the boat and drifted as near as I dared . |
| 8 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 9 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 10 | The modern tail and underwater shapes will enable you to make progress in stronger wind and sail far quicker than if you use a wide square-tailed board with a flat bottom . |
| 11 | In quite outrageously comic and very skilful sequences of movement , mime and clowning , they attempt courtship , and in a shower of champagne that misses more often than it hits the glass , approach the great unknown of the wedding night . |
| 12 | The purpose for which the transaction is entered into , be it to make a profit or to further some divergent managerial interest , is not an issue that arises as far as questions of authorisation are concerned . |
| 13 | Most of the federally owned land in the area is run by BLM , which has apportioned it for extensive commercial mining and ranching as well as for recreational use . |
| 14 | The Centre has its own library and conference rooms and has access to services for oligonucleotide and peptide synthesis and microsequencing as well as to powerful computer and database services . |
| 15 | And if Marian and the outlaws had already met there was no reason why she should not use the highway and move as fast as they . |
| 16 | Some wheats require a period of cold weather and short days if they are to yield well ; these are autumn sown , stand over winter and ripen much earlier than spring-grown varieties . |
| 17 | He could n't tell when the singing came to an end , or the Archbishop 's voice was first raised , addressing the city ; offering it God 's peace and succour so long as the Feast of Christ lasted . |
| 18 | Please support our Passport to Health campaign and give as generously as you can . |
| 19 | When loaded , the toastracks crossed to the Promenade and travelled as far as Victoria Pier , up Station road and along Lytham Road to Royal Oak , round the Marton route and so back to Talbot Square . |
| 20 | Then you follow me and hit me with a driver and drop away quickly because I 'm going to hit it so fast he wo n't know where the ball is until it 's down the fairway . ’ |
| 21 | I was going towards the North Stand and got as far as the All-Blacks ' 10-yard line . |
| 22 | Play the field and score as often as possible . |
| 23 | presented a ‘ grid ’ file that performs particularly well when the number of search attributes is ten or less , and offers a high data storage utilization , good growth characteristics and efficient processing of range queries ; Stanfill and Kahle explain the principles of a parallel free-text search on a particular parallel computer , and claim a retrieval speed of 2 — 3 minutes for Boolean queries of 25 and 20000 terms respectively when the database in question takes up 15 Gbytes of storage space . |
| 24 | Such a subjective process is controversial by its very nature and becomes more so when changes are introduced each year that may have important consequences for the grants payable to individual local authorities . |
| 25 | Piaget , however , asserts in the introduction to his work that ‘ We shall rather show that the acquisition of language is itself subordinated to the workings of a symbolic function which can be seen in the development of imitation and play as well as in that of verbal mechanisms ’ ( 1962 : 1–2 ; see Vygotsky 1978 for a contrary view ) . |
| 26 | And perhaps it was just as well because there , on the seat of the rag cart and sitting as patiently as the pony was standing , was Ben . |
| 27 | One aim of experiments is to search for a compact spelling which can show sound and meaning as directly as possible , meet the needs of all who learn and use it , and is still close to existing spelling which has , so to speak , been ‘ cleaned up ’ . |
| 28 | I stuck my fingers up his nose and pushed as hard as I could . |
| 29 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 30 | There is a clear sense of recession , with paler tones dominating at the top of the canvas and appearing further away than the more densely coloured foreground . |