Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had long since stopped noticing the foul smell inside the little concrete box , or the damp grittiness of the floor against his cheek , and he heard only distantly the rolling crash of thunder . |
| 2 | Here , an allergy to chloroform was successfully treated using a homoeopathic preparation of chloroform . |
| 3 | Building a home is a more demanding business altogether since it necessarily involves assembling the right materials , deciding on a layout and somehow fastening things together . |
| 4 | The pupils can manipulate the data or screen image , experimenting and taking risks which can be swiftly deleted leaving a professional image on screen unspoiled by scratchings and rubbings out . |
| 5 | Amplified vibration can reinforce the normal rhythm of speech and can greatly assist forming the right habits . |
| 6 | Attention to discourse does not necessarily entail sacrificing the traditional emphasis on pronunciation and writing , grammar and vocabulary . |
| 7 | The drafter may sometimes be tempted to leave something deliberately vague in order to mask its meaning , perhaps to avoid frightening a potential contract partner . |
| 8 | He suddenly risked losing the crowning glory of a lifetime 's secret endeavour to an unknown malarial " fly-catcher " as the humble naturalist-explorers were known . |
| 9 | Sport does tend to thrust the begging bowl at politicians , when it would be better employed preparing an unanswerable case for substantial state aid . |
| 10 | He returned carrying some tepid water and cleaning material , and gently began wiping the sore cut . |
| 11 | ‘ I should have thought your time would be better spent studying the common people . |
| 12 | Yet the other day I was listening to an eminent conductor whose Bruckner is often much praised reaching a triple forte long before what is to me self-evidently the work 's pivotal climax . |
| 13 | So try knitting the last row from the opposite side to your normal way and have another try . |
| 14 | The surveys we have discussed so far in this chapter have all involved taking a single cross-section sample of a particular population . |
| 15 | This does not necessarily mean spending a great deal of money on it , but careful and considerate planning of the whole day . |
| 16 | The House of Lords held that in the context ‘ transferring ’ obviously meant assigning the beneficial interest and not the technical process of having a transfer registered . |
| 17 | Maintaining the countryside in a pristine ‘ rural ’ state merely means consigning a substantial section of its population to a level of material existence which those who propound such policies would not themselves tolerate . |
| 18 | So start shopping the new way soon — it says style ! |
| 19 | The Arnoldian tradition relates art firmly to being in all its existential , moral and aesthetic modalities , but in so doing perhaps diminishes our awareness of the unique properties of the arts as arts ; conversely , while the continental schools in various ways direct our attention to the formal or technical properties of the arts ( even when contesting them ) , they perhaps risk losing the human frame of reference . |
| 20 | And in twelve years as an experienced shop steward , I can only recall having a full time officer in I think on three occasions . |
| 21 | Not only does allowing the so-called minnows to play the bigger teams provide their players with the highlights of the rugby lives — but it also means that sides like South Korea , conquerors of the Barbarians , get the exposure to top level competition . |
| 22 | It was a wonderful drive on an afternoon balmy enough to warrant lowering the electric windows and we cruised along to Mahler 's music playing on the six speaker sound system , through some of the most beautiful countryside we have ever seen . |
| 23 | It was a wonderful drive on an afternoon balmy enough to warrant lowering the electric windows and we cruised along to Mahler 's music playing on the six speaker sound system , through some of the most beautiful countryside we have ever seen . |
| 24 | He adamantly denied sending the other knives . |
| 25 | Changes to the data may only involve changing the relevant parts of the database , and the many programs that may use the data will not need to be changed . |
| 26 | The phonetic information is manually input using a special keyboard having 21 keys . |
| 27 | It is not the case that whenever we become a member of a civil society , a body politic , that we are so to speak signing the social contract erm think of it erm a little bit like erm a social club erm East Biddock Old Comrades Club was actually established in the way Locke describes , you know , a group of citizens of East Biddock came together and decided to establish a social club subsequently of course all sorts of people are admitted to membership of East Biddock Old Comrades Club but that as a process which , although very similar to the original contract of establishment , is n't actually erm the same , you know , they 're not actually re-establishing the civil society , they 're joining one that already exists . |
| 28 | And from somewhere came drifting the lazy smell of woodsmoke . |
| 29 | Most radio stations in non-NPN states had already stopped taking the national news from FRCN in Lagos , and so it is probable that they too ignored the event . |
| 30 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |