Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had fewer reporters , fewer offices and relied more heavily than did the Times on official press releases from the Government and its news agency , ZANA . |
| 2 | De Gaulle 's suspicion of political parties was explicitly anti-parliamentarian : ‘ it is from the head of state , placed above parties and elected more widely than just by Parliament that executive power must proceed ’ . |
| 3 | However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next . |
| 4 | Bricks and mortar so far as I 'm concerned . |
| 5 | Last year alone they had over 400,000 winners and paid out more than £40 million . |
| 6 | Lily Malloy loved dancing : she was n't religiously correct about the steps and laughed out loud when they jived . |
| 7 | We obtained directions and drove as rapidly as possible to the rival meeting . |
| 8 | Adjustment can now come about automatically via the exchange rate , although the success of this mechanism depends upon the elasticity of demand for imports and exports as far as the current account is concerned , and on the stability of capital flows for an overall balance of payments . |
| 9 | It is important to support parents and to co-operate as far as you possibly can . |
| 10 | In many cases a group would divide into sub-groups and work on more than three at a time . |
| 11 | The solution would involve mediation by the signatories of the protocol , a proposal hitherto rejected by Ecuador [ see p. 38526 ] , whose territorial claim in the oil-rich area dated back to colonial times and extended as far as the Peruvian town of Iquitos . |
| 12 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |
| 13 | This is undoubtedly a specialization which developed from the condition where there are many separate branchial openings as seen , for instance , in lampreys , anaspids , cephalaspids , galeaspids and thelodonts as well as in cephalochordates ( one likely sister group of craniates ) . |
| 14 | You 're never very far from urban centres but the walk sidesteps and swerves as cleverly as the best Welsh fly-halves to follow a largely rural route . |
| 15 | But the Retail Butcher of the Year promised to pick up the pieces and re-open as soon as possible . |
| 16 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 17 | He had been talked into editing the Complete Poems and Plays as early as 1959 , with the blessing of the present Lord Ash , an elderly Methodist peer who was a descendant of a remote cousin of Ash himself and heir to the ownership of the unsold manuscripts . |
| 18 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 19 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 20 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 21 | This may be easier said than done but if you have a clear idea of the purpose of the meeting and have prepared a thorough list of everything you want to know then you must stick to your guns and carry on relentlessly until you have worked your way through it . |
| 22 | Can he defy what may appear to be a paradox by both easing the burden of excessive interest rates and pressing on relentlessly until inflation is completely eradicated from the economy ? |
| 23 | I waved my arms and shouted as loudly as possible . |
| 24 | A bird had gained entry through one of the broken windows and flown helplessly around until it collided with her . |
| 25 | It generally has more impact on debtors and moves along faster than the County Court . |
| 26 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 27 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 28 | I have nothing against thorns and prickles so long as you can admire them from a safe distance . |
| 29 | Ramazzini described the symptoms of poisoning from the lead which was regularly used by house painters , plumbers , glaziers and potters as well as by the extremely short-lived wretches actually employed in lead works : " First their hands become palsied , then they become paralytic , spenetic , lethargic , cachectic and toothless , so that one rarely sees a potter whose face is not cadaverous and the colour of lead . " |
| 30 | However , if babies suffer tissue damage for whatever reason , they show fewer behavioural disturbances and recover more quickly if they receive medicine which limits the effect of injury signals . |