Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far from being grateful , she complained of the smell within and declared that sleeping in the open air had its merits . |
| 2 | The designation is a form of landscape protection only and has little value in nature conservation terms . |
| 3 | If he failed to turn up , the Commissioner had the power to hear the plaintiff 's case only and give immediate judgement on it . |
| 4 | The child had to take the card home and get different fabric cuttings from her or his Mum . |
| 5 | Diana drafted her reply carefully and made several attempts at matching the frosty tone which Philip had used in his . |
| 6 | Teachers working in the three phases of education ( primary , middle , secondary ) seem to have experienced the review differently and have different attitudes towards it and towards SSE in general . |
| 7 | Cut out some administration today and put more time into leading your people to an even more profitable contribution . |
| 8 | I 'm not breaking my stated rule here and recommending this hotel , just saying that it is there and that if you could get the back bedrooms you would have a most remarkable scene to look out on . |
| 9 | Educated women seem to be at a particular disadvantage because they are expected , and expect themselves , to accept the loss gracefully and suppress irrational feelings associated with a process which is not unlike mourning . |
| 10 | In addition to the traditional vented system , it is now permissible to have an unvented hot water storage system , which does away with the cold water cistern altogether and has other advantages ( see page 58 for details ) ; sealed central heating systems ( which do away with the feed-and-expansion cistern ) have been legal for some time . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of people are saying that the board must get its act together and get some money to spend . |
| 12 | Contractors must get their act together and take more responsibility . |
| 13 | unless the local printer 's very cleaver somehow and got that advertising to sponsor er the booklet they 've had to charge for it . |
| 14 | If you write a fair amount , and read your work critically and let other people criticise it , you will get better . |
| 15 | Read through your work carefully and correct any errors you find . |
| 16 | Read through your work carefully and correct any errors you find . |
| 17 | He pushed the bottom half of the window upwards and swung one leg over the sill . |
| 18 | In a study by Mayes into various measures of testing the readability of guides , he found that guides were jargon-filled , unappealing etc and suggested many ways in which they could be made more readable . |
| 19 | In a similar revolutionary manner Paracelsus confronted the contemporary craze for seeing witchcraft everywhere and claimed this phenomenon for psychiatry . |
| 20 | We then left Gt Yarmouth for another attempt at a passage northward and found less wind but a nasty swell outside the harbour . |
| 21 | Poor , pathetic old man , he thought , watching as his Uncle Walter picked up his pen again and consulted some notes , preparing to conclude his long chronicle of the family . |
| 22 | Once basic definitions have been established , individual groups or companies can take the work forward and do specific implementations — for a Motorola Inc processor , a DEC user or an SVR4 file system , for example . |
| 23 | Also the arms , and in particular the front one , should be straight since not only is this less tiring but it keeps the rig upright and provides more power . |
| 24 | Immediately she asked me when I might be free , but I was able to murmur , ‘ It 's a little difficult , Mrs Fawcett , until I get around a bit more and establish some duty rosters . ’ |
| 25 | He thought about it a bit more and decided that home was the wrong word ; it was just the place where he lived . |
| 26 | Lights are on 12 hours per day , I do a 20 per cent water change fortnightly and feed frozen food once a day . |
| 27 | He appreciates , too , that he must , in this instance , tread a diplomatic line between doing his job properly and maintaining good relations with club managers whose assistance he will need when fully competitive matches arise . |
| 28 | Because we are dealing with running speech , the articulatory loop should seldom be used in dealing with the source language ( unless it is in an abbreviated code ) — a simultaneous interpreter will claim to analyse the meaning directly and have little knowledge of sound features in the source language . |
| 29 | Trying to set the record straight and put Native Americans on the monument map is Crazy Horse , a massive new sculpture being blasted out of the mountains . |
| 30 | Back the maid went , only to reappear shaking her head sorrowfully and saying this headache was so very bad as to quite incapacitate the invalid and render her unfit even for Wilson . |