Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 a typeface in which the characters are formed with only the outline defined rather than from solid strokes .
2 I found keyboard control to be better because other keys such as ‘ weapon select ’ and ‘ shields ’ are only a finger stretch away if you are on the keyboard .
3 It can not be exactly the algorithm given above because the desired outputs d from the top layer are not known , so it can not calculate y * ( 1-y ) * ( d-y ) .
4 Er it 's just a thought to say well if I , if , if this training is so important I will use it over and over again , it makes sense to save the preparation time four or five months down the line by having a script and now only you can up with your examples .
5 Gradually the sound came closer until it was bellowing overhead , hurling its echo from mountain to mountain over the valley .
6 Nearly every study uses more than one method , though there is often a strong preference for either survey-style research or participant observation .
7 The lack of even basic knowledge is probably a fault encountered more when dealing with a consultancy than with in-house PROs .
8 The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt .
9 Very often a sentence contains more than one ambiguous word form ; in such cases , there will occur a kind of mutual negotiation between the various options so as to achieve the most normal combination .
10 Only two years ago the RNLI answered more than 4,000 calls .
11 Surely the House acted wisely when hon. Members on both sides of the Chamber threw out the Shops Bill , which I considered to be a disgraceful piece of legislation .
12 Often it ‘ clonks ’ at the fully open or fully closed positions , and sometimes the guitar howls uncontrollably when the pot is turned all the way down .
13 Unfortunately the resemblance ends there as his songs are nowhere near as good as the master 's .
14 Then the mist came nearer until it reached a man and an eagle and before her eyes they turned to stone and were raised up as a single standing stone , to point up into the sky .
15 A bolt was drawn back from inside then the door opened fractionally before a hand reached out and hauled him into the room .
16 She went to do a lady 's hair and then the lady said well if you , could you just sort of trim my husband 's .
17 There was a cry , and then the wheels thumped again as they passed across either feet or ankles .
18 and you know the things he gets up to , he , well there 's two burglars trying to get into the house , well , he shoots , he shoots them down there both got their little pop guns and that and he , and he flings irons at them and that and , and marbles and ee , ee , you know , then the mother realizes like when she 's on the plane that she 's left her son at home er , the , the film 's , the film 's good , do n't you feel like anything like that ?
19 Philip 's got quite a way to go yet before he can beat me . ’
20 Again there are two broad categories : either the jaws appear longer than wide with many oral papillae and large open tentacle pores or the jaw appears as broad as long with few oral papillae and small tentacle pores .
21 He found that 51.96 per cent of those in ‘ primary poverty ’ were so because the chief breadwinner was ‘ in regular work but at low wages ’ ; 22.16 per cent of primary poverty was due , in modern terminology , to ‘ child poverty ’ , i.e. the family had more than four children and insufficient income to support so large a family ; 15.63 per cent to ‘ death of chief wage-earner ’ ; 5.11 per cent to the illness and old age of chief wage-earner ; 2.83 per cent to ‘ irregularity of work ’ ; 2.31 per cent to unemployment .
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