Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YORKSHIRE cricket is blazing the international trail after always accepting only home-grown talent in the past Aussie paceman Craig McDermott ( above left ) was the first overseas star expected to join the county , but the move fell through and Tendulkar came over from India instead . |
| 2 | After narrowly averting yet another strike last year , AT&T might easily have decided to treat its relations with the unions as little more than an exercise in damage control . |
| 3 | After completely flushing out all hydrocarbon , the plugs were saturated with a brine of 100 000 ppm NaCl . |
| 4 | Where order is concerned , it appears that teachers are disrespected not only for not meting out appropriate punishment when deserved ( within the official theory ) , but also for not exercising discipline within the classroom . |
| 5 | Many pressure groups set themselves the task of sedulously winning over influential opinion to their view of the future . |
| 6 | If a school has to be defended in a head 's report , the defence may take the form of not providing as much information as governors would want . |
| 7 | The band had a policy of not turning down any gig offer , regardless of whether playing it would be profitable . |
| 8 | But in the opinion of one analytical chemist connected with racing , designer drugs have become big business in America and side-by-side with their development have come masking agents — innocent in themselves but if administered at the same time capable of totally wiping out any trace of them . |
| 9 | But there are ways of gradually increasing daily physical activity without necessarily turning to a specific form of sport . |
| 10 | ‘ Float people run fast leave love lust power girlpower boypower out of here go fast light heat star fly riddles in the flesh call strong me feel here feel now feel aaaaah . ’ |
| 11 | 'In other words , ’ said Codron , ‘ we were responsible for totally mucking up this woman 's entry into womanhood by letting her see Loot . ’ |
| 12 | They are ideal for quickly taking off old paint from large flat areas or wood or metal . |
| 13 | Fashions in dress and diet , ceremonies and customs , art and architecture , engineering and technology , all evolve in historical time in a way that looks like highly speeded up genetic evolution , but has really nothing to do with genetic evolution . |
| 14 | With only going in last night and |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Treacly piped music from inside slopped out each time the automatic doors opened . |
| 17 | The company mounted a rear-guard defence of its three-pronged operating system strategy last week — OSF/1 , NT and OpenVMS — but it had left a lot of substance on the cutting room floor before finally calling together top industry watchers in Maynard , Massachusetts , and around the world for the ‘ Unified Unix ’ strategy briefing ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 18 | There must , of course , always be a proper and fruitful relationship between intellectually worked out theological doctrine and the witness of individual experience . |
| 19 | the , the more you argue for this economy , and the more you argue no this is , this really is how the peasant felt and he that the peasant really erm did n't have any ideas of changing society at that of the landlord system the more I assume that one would support this kind of rent reduction , interest rate reduction campaign which allows you to slowly build up that mobilization which is necessary . |
| 20 | And also as you said , the thing with colours , they were said to perhaps use less basic colour terms , so if some men were shown a bluey-green some men would say and some would say whereas a women allegedly would say turquoise or whatever . |
| 21 | Then the leading comrade makes a long speech ( with pauses for interpretation ) full of statistics about how before liberation the commune used to only produce so many jin per mu ( jin being a measure of weight/capacity , and mu being a measure of land ) and how the commune now produces about 15 times that amount . |
| 22 | The areas of company activity mentioned are targeted by the company as being the most important in our efforts to progressively improve overall environmental performance . |
| 23 | My advice to him is to not pay too much attention to it , be tough and carry on . |
| 24 | This would parallel any company policy on not giving out personal telephone numbers but instead routing calls through the switchboard . |
| 25 | This simply means that when the cord wears away in use , the spool can be lightly tapped on the ground to automatically pay out more cord . |
| 26 | I think , I mean , one way is for editors with similar jobs to get together and do a generic one erm but there 's only one editor amongst us so you have no-one together with unless you want to find somebody in another group , but I do n't think it 's going to really serve very much purpose . |
| 27 | You should choose this option again if you wish to selectively read out another package structure . |
| 28 | But for teachers who wish to use the video on the basis of a fuller teaching programme , there are also lesson plans for four periods per episode , and , where access to a video recorder or time in the teaching schedule may be strictly limited , ideas are included on how to use just one classroom period per episode . |
| 29 | At the same time students will be preparing under supervision the results of their field research for presentation as a dissertation and will be attending classes on how to write up anthropological research . |
| 30 | There are a number of tortured perspectives on how to get round this problem , but they are themselves fraught with problems . |