Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineers should contribute effectively to risk management within their organisation by doing everything reasonably practicable to ensure that good practice is being followed . |
| 2 | They gave Jack the chance to practise some of the underhand humour that eventually became part of his mystique . |
| 3 | Against these factors , one must recall that in the Northern Tier countries ( Poland , GDR , Czechoslovakia ) , the earmarking of the national armed forces for participation in the cutting edge of offensive war against NATO has rarely provoked dissent from their commanders . |
| 4 | One day he went missing , and the producer went in search of him , eventually catching sight of his Rolls-Royce parked outside a bar . |
| 5 | The most widely reported feature of his speech was the proposal to repeal a 35-year-old law outlawing the Communist Party of the Philippines — Marxist Leninist ( CPP-ML ) and similar organizations , and to institute a sweeping amnesty . |
| 6 | She tried to make her voice heard above the general clamour and hurried forward , only to lose sight of her quarry in the crowd . |
| 7 | ‘ The county council has only limited insurance for its schools simply because of the enormous premiums which would be required to provide comprehensive cover , ’ he said . |
| 8 | We sit on a thoughtfully placed bench with our backs against a hollow in the hillside and look out over the island , back towards Fionnphort , to the beginning of our long journey homeward . |
| 9 | Elaine drained hers thirstily and made a loud sucking noise with her straw . |
| 10 | The seriousness was underlined when he warned : ‘ Our party could break itself over Europe with consequences which would deeply damage Britain and only bring comfort to our opponents . |
| 11 | His parents hoped that this might prove a stepping-stone to a painter 's career , but Rosenberg hated the work , only deriving consolation from his reading of such poets as Byron , Keats , Shelley , and , most importantly , William Blake [ qq.v. ] ; from his own writing ; and from evening painting classes at the art school of Birkbeck College . |
| 12 | Oh , better make space for my money , what ! |
| 13 | She had watched Madeleine feed him in hospital , patiently push soup between his lips . |
| 14 | Failing eyesight which left writer and poet Joan Rimmer blinded for three months , delayed publication of the long awaited sequel to My Formby , Formby Remembered . |
| 15 | He suddenly has trouble with his breathing . |
| 16 | As Lady Romsey gently cradled Holly in her arms , the girl 's mother Julie said : ‘ Both the Romseys and their nanny were particularly kind to us when Leonora and Holly were receiving treatment . |
| 17 | He said my father can have it , he can do , have it , I only want money for my charity , |
| 18 | He figures Sun only has price in its corner and claimed Apollo users , the last of the die-hard zealots opposed to Sun on religious grounds , wo n't be budged simply on price . |
| 19 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 20 | A front-line supervisor only has authority over his part of the work of the organisation and can not issue instructions to another part . |
| 21 | You may find yourself writing detailed advertisements for an insurance company specific enough to find favour with their actuaries , or inventing a reason for people to buy a particular chocolate bar . |
| 22 | ‘ But surely no one would be mad enough to hide gelignite in his room ? ’ said Amiss . |
| 23 | The commercial company created by Lord Burghersh to run ‘ Sporting Glory ’ and rent the facility went bankrupt , owing money to printers , the V&A ( it has only seen part of its £100,000 rental fee ) and , of course , the backers . |
| 24 | It was Molly , of course , who introduced Medau work in the Special Needs sector and she has been followed by a number of our teachers who all deserve recognition for their work in this field . |
| 25 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 26 | The idea that Christianity can only do justice to its beliefs by means of apparent contradictions ( the notion of ‘ paradox ’ ) owes more to Pascal than to any other religious thinker . |
| 27 | Poulantzas appeals to Althusser 's theory to resolve the long-standing problem of how to characterise the capitalist state — and in doing so casts light on its power and its limitations . |
| 28 | For the chief defect of parliamentary democracy is that it is representative : when a person elects a representative he necessarily surrenders part of his sovereignty to him . |
| 29 | Following the much trumpeted loss of her maidenhood , she is said to have undergone a test to determine whether or not she has AIDS , an ailment prevalent in that part of the world . |
| 30 | Boz made the announcement as though expecting Dolly to argue with him , but she merely nodded acknowledgement of his statement . |