Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English-speaking feminists have indeed paid little attention to it ; but European scholars have felt obliged to take it up . |
| 2 | As symbols wooden thrones have traditionally attracted some of the most precious substances . |
| 3 | The work has demonstrated that psychotic individuals do indeed show some imbalance in hemisphere organisation that could account for their bizarre psychological experiences . |
| 4 | Such liberal theories tend then to adopt some variant of social contract theory or at least have inherited a vision of society in which an instrumental view of society — society as constructed by individuals for the fulfilment of essentially individual ends — is adopted . |
| 5 | Early results have already proved some theories ; for example that plutonium tend to settle in the liver and the bones ; the peaks picked out here . |
| 6 | Early results have already proved some theories ; for example that plutonium tend to settle in the liver and the bones ; the peaks picked out here . |
| 7 | Socialist parties have often rejected such a close connection with the Western alliance , but claimed a commitment to pacifism , neutrality and equality also found among left-wing parties in the West . |
| 8 | Electric fences around sensitive areas and electrified human dummies have also had some effect , apparently warding off marauding tigers . |
| 9 | Make cut flowers last longer using this new gadget from the USA , an underwater stem-cutter that should be a boon to all flower arrangers and flower lovers alike . |
| 10 | European investors have traditionally taken this view of FRNs and have regarded them as close substitutes for money market securities . |
| 11 | Legal problems have also dogged some innovative experiments within the care management pilots the city is running . |
| 12 | Hitherto , the empirical watchers and the grand theorists have largely ignored each others ' work . |
| 13 | The great philosophers have always produced such a person-oriented account at least for those whose education was thought to matter . |
| 14 | The sharp combination of savage and city along with ritual and music-hall elements do much to make this the most powerful of Eliot 's comedies . |
| 15 | Heavy provisions have already driven some societies into losses : something else which used to be unknown in the industry . |
| 16 | Some Labour MEPs and independent socialists have long argued this is the way to prevent a stranglehold over European integration being exercised by national governments . |
| 17 | Some of the world 's most beautiful women have also cut more birthday cakes than Clinton . |
| 18 | Political leaders do now understand this ( Lister , 1980 ) , and as a result child benefit is generally increased every year . |
| 19 | COMPULSORY seat-belts have yet to have any noticeable effect on road accident statistics in Britain , despite many exaggerated press reports . |
| 20 | The above examples have all assumed some prescience on the part of the investor . |
| 21 | Professional standards have traditionally played little part in the accounts of central government . |
| 22 | But he had made it complete with fossils and dinosaur skeletons buried under the earth ; red herrings put there to expose those of little faith . |
| 23 | More experimentally-minded workers have since found many soft spots in what had seemed a solid concept . |
| 24 | The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers have already achieved much to improve the site 's appeal . |
| 25 | It fell from favour when the railway came to Kyle of Lochalsh and the ferry there was developed : modern roads have since made this alternative approach much easier and avoid the high crossing of the Mam Ratagan Pass on the old route . |
| 26 | The majority of Latin American governments have to operate under much the same constraints and , although nationalist tendencies have intermittently rendered this factor advantageous to the USSR , it has more consistently worked against Moscow . |
| 27 | Such spectacular animals have obviously attracted much attention , and one might suppose that the problem of how they lived would have been satisfactorily solved long ago . |
| 28 | Other authors have also found such differences . |
| 29 | Robin Fox ( 1971 , 1972 ) and Lional Tiger ( 1969 ) in influential books have perhaps pushed this approach to an extreme , but they have thereby generated an important renewal of interest in biology among anthropologists . |
| 30 | Millwall have hovered in mid-table and three successive defeats have virtually destroyed any lingering hopes of once again featuring in the end-of-season play-off drama . |