Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite many cultural imports from China during their subsequent history , the islanders conspicuously failed to acquire a reverence for jade . |
| 2 | It is clear that the formulae just established provide a method of solution for problem ( a ) since unc and the computer can reciprocate both B and unc and perform the required multiplications . |
| 3 | Candidates also have to choose a paper in one of these two areas : the Philosophy , Nature and Practice of Geography or the United Kingdom and France . |
| 4 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 5 | Games tend to be inherently object-oriented , says Hinsley ( all those sprites moving about and interacting ) and games authors often have to cram a lot into a tiny amount of memory while stretching hardware to its limits . |
| 6 | Clients often expect to make a mixture of appointments , some internally and some from outside their organisation . |
| 7 | All subjects then learned to push a handle ( R1 ) in response to A and to pull it ( R2 ) in response to B. The test phase showed that stimulus C tended to evoke R2 , that is , to evoke the response acquired to the training stimulus that had received equivalent pre-training . |
| 8 | Glider designers sometimes choose to fit a tail-skid rather than a wheel for simplicity and cheapness , saying quite rightly that they offer a little less drag . |
| 9 | Over the two day event I understand nearly 20,000 people attended the show and at times my car was four or five deep , people of various different ages just trying to get a glimpse or take pictures . |
| 10 | Institutions thus have to make a judgement as to what liquidity ratio is best — one that is neither too high nor too low . |
| 11 | Sat for ages tonight trying to have a vision but nothing happened . |
| 12 | Some parents only want to adopt a child of two black parents , that is of African , Afro-Caribbean or Asian origin . |
| 13 | Ramsey knew of the bitterness engendered by the coal royalties paid to the Church , and how the miners once tried to throw a bishop into the River Wear . |
| 14 | The fire was caused by an employee of the defendants negligently forgetting to extinguish a gas flame under a chip fryer before leaving the premises for the night , with the result that the oil in the chip fryer continued to heat up until it caught fire . |
| 15 | Parsers frequently fail to parse a sentence , either because the words in the sentence are not stored in the lexicon or because the grammar available to the program is unable to handle a particular grammatical construction . |
| 16 | If the Church Commissioners subsequently agree to seal a Declaration of Redundancy , advice is sought on the future of the building from the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches , a national body which was set up under the Pastoral Measure . |
| 17 | Like a miniature expression of the whole , the tomb is defended on all sides by its own set of machicolated walls , built as if to keep the Angel of Death at bay ; they represent perhaps the most elaborate set of defences ever raised to protect a corpse . |
| 18 | The workers merely wish to clear a backlog of clients before the afternoon session begins . |
| 19 | To the commuter , the new red , white and blue house colours just had to represent a commitment to strive for quality . |
| 20 | Giving awards also means holding a ceremony and this too can attract the attention of the media . |
| 21 | The applicants also agreed to close a bar at 10.30pm , Sunday to Friday , and to close the complex at 7pm on Saturday . |
| 22 | TELEVISION footage of a youth soccer match at Wembley 18 years ago has prompted a search by a former Merseyside non-league player for a permanent record of the game . |
| 23 | A woman who learnt to dive just three years ago has found a Viking relic which is more than a thousand years old . |
| 24 | Police searching for the remains of a woman who went missing twenty years ago have recovered a body . |
| 25 | The negative consequence , however , is that Christians there have developed a ghetto mentality that can no longer think in terms of mission , but only survival . |
| 26 | Few dogs actively appear to enjoy a visit to the vet , but conversely , even fewer normally become aggressive on routine visits if they are not in pain . |
| 27 | The source of his personal identity and the nature of financial and status rewards also seemed to affect a teacher 's ability to change his classroom practice . |
| 28 | In six rounds of voting , deputies repeatedly failed to elect a candidate by the required majority of 531 votes . |
| 29 | The cladograms so produced displayed a variety of patterns , many of which appear to simulate temporal diversity changes in well-studied fossil groups . |
| 30 | Punishments generally seemed to get a lot more severe whilst I was there . |