Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercifully , these days , it 's easier to avoid costly mistakes by splashing out on a large bottle of something which is transformed into ‘ Eau de Old Socks ’ by your skin 's individual chemistry : if you ask politely in department stores , many perfume houses gladly hand out miniature sample vials of their wares , enabling you to make up your mind away from the high-pressure squirtings of over-zealous tester-bottle-wielders . |
| 2 | er Parents predicament is understandable , there have been many tragedies in the past where local authorities perhaps took too much notice of the parents and too little of the children . |
| 3 | Big Ears just lies around all day ‘ tuning in ’ . |
| 4 | The reason that an extremely lenient criterion was adopted was simply that subjects generally gave very little detail about the situations they actually recalled correctly . |
| 5 | A sub-sample of six schools also provided more detailed information . |
| 6 | Averaged out , the trainers clearly gave much greater weight in selecting future teachers to oral proficiency and experience of the country whose language would be taught , and much less to written proficiency , knowledge of literature or linguistics , the referee 's report , or experience with children ’ ( Gold , 1985 : 11 ) |
| 7 | Worries also exist over mutual recognition of testing and certification procedures , as there is concern that some member states may not have adequate facilities and experience to ensure that these procedures are carried out with appropriate attention to important details . |
| 8 | Comfort , structure and relationships now warrant as much attention as the high-achievement goals of recognition , power , autonomy , creativity and growth . |
| 9 | Night Goblins often take over abandoned Dwarf strongholds to live in , and much of the ancient Dwarf Empire is now infested with these creatures . |
| 10 | Working people and shoppers here have as much right to sit in the sunshine at lunchtime for a few minutes as their counterparts elsewhere in the country . |
| 11 | These include the recent introduction of Advanced Coating Technology ACTTM which extends the application of Platinum group metals into areas where cost considerations currently rule out large scale use of the metals and new manufacturing technologies such as knitted gauze . |
| 12 | For the rest of the decade the reserves never fell below third place , and were champions a further five times . |
| 13 | Military design and development contracts generally have comparatively thin profit margins , and while an allowance for unexpected extra work will have been built into the contract price , it appears as if GEC-Ferranti seriously underestimated the work involved to make the radar operationally acceptable . |
| 14 | Admitting that ‘ a ‘ row ’ ’ at Cremorne on the night of Derby and Oaks day' was ‘ too ordinary an occurrence to deserve any comment ’ , The Times nevertheless lingered over this scene of young gentlemen at play : |
| 15 | ‘ With 100% tax allowances , manufacturing companies effectively paid very little tax — 12% or so . |
| 16 | Middlesbrough steel , for instance , can still be identified in the railway stations of India and Argentina : on the eve of the First World War , those countries alone bought more British iron and steel exports than the whole of Europe . |
| 17 | If the galls normally have only one insect inside each , count how many adults you have collected altogether . |
| 18 | Approaching Selborne — the mid-point of the walk — from the south , the path follows the line of medieval strip lynches — hedgerows still growing where one field level drops to another . |
| 19 | You chaps usually bring as much trouble with you as you solve . |
| 20 | With my black friends , their babies are two years old and the parents still cause so much strife . |
| 21 | Many companies still use incredibly short payback periods , often set by financial directors playing a very risk-averse game . |
| 22 | These countries once welcomed only each other 's goods , while imports from non-members were severely discouraged . |
| 23 | IPV recipients also had significantly higher post-vaccination GMTs to poliovirus type 3 ( p < 0.001 ) , but not to types 1 and 2 . |
| 24 | Companies also anticipate little immediate scope for increased profits . |
| 25 | Advent of low cost processors allowing DSP algorithms to be implemented with relative ease means electronics engineers now have much greater awareness of its potential — certainly not the case five years ago . |
| 26 | In comparison with the Japanese , UK companies often have somewhat larger profit margins , but then ROI is substantially less due to excessive fixed assets and work-in-progress and excessive investment lead times leading to more idle assets . |
| 27 | Since association ( or multi-employer ) bargaining became a major part of the industrial relations systems of these countries the specific collective bargaining role of employers ' associations now requires more detailed analysis . |
| 28 | Men like Acton used the twin issues of prostitution and venereal disease to insist that medics rather than moralists now had far greater claim to authority on social and environmental issues . |
| 29 | Tropical soils often have too little zinc for rice or citrus , or molybdenum for legumes while reclaimed peats have too little copper for many crops , while there are low levels of nitrogen and phosphorus almost everywhere . |
| 30 | Mhm , and you feel that youngsters nowadays have maybe less opportunity than you had yourself when you were leaving school ? |