Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 2 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 3 | After all , bright children usually expect to succeed , hence success and praise do not surprise them or necessarily raise them to new levels of performance . |
| 4 | • Any burns may be deeper than they appear , so cool them with cold water and cover with an antiseptic dressing or clean cloth . |
| 5 | I only tax mine for six month now then , ay ? |
| 6 | But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ? |
| 7 | Well he 's only put it on one side . |
| 8 | They deteriorated with time , and the only way to prolong their life was to store them carefully in airtight containers and only wear them on special occasions . |
| 9 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 10 | ‘ So tell me about this case of yours . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ So tell me about this Rose Bowl of yours , ’ he said , leaning back and signalling the waiter for another bottle of wine . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'll write him stating , ‘ Since you obviously know nothing about English literature , we expect you never to quote from it again' . ’ |
| 13 | They only tell you about that bit . |
| 14 | Only get her off this estate now , you understand ? |
| 15 | I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months . |
| 16 | As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it . |
| 17 | Pakistan and Afghanistan together produce something like 1,200 tons of hashish a year . |
| 18 | Girls who suddenly find themselves with enormous breasts may collapse in on themselves in embarrassment or try to hide behind folded arms , and the result is an equally collapsed voice which often gives out altogether at crucial moments . |
| 19 | There is a possibility that transient UOS relaxations may be unusually easy to trigger in some subjects and so predispose them to oesophagopharyngeal reflux . |
| 20 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 21 | Cheques have to arrive at the registrars by Thursday 10 September so post them by next Tuesday at the earliest . |
| 22 | Cooks and lawyers need to use words in their own special ways , and so do I in this book . |
| 23 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 24 | So you 'd just write it as , I mean as it 's minus one , you can take it off as you go along , but it 's , sometimes it 'll be a minus six or something , so write it as two point nine nine squared minus one . |
| 25 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 26 | They apparently need them for all manner of reasons . ’ |
| 27 | The picture of settlement development in the landscape , then , is a dynamic picture of great complexity , great age and constant change , but we only see it at one time . |
| 28 | The very largest like the Prudential and Standard Life are able to offer these as a genuinely independent extension of their huge pension businesses but many of the smaller firms obviously see them as commercial marketing opportunities . |
| 29 | However , their high oil content means that they ‘ spoil ’ quickly , so buy them in small quantities . |
| 30 | They only have them in this colour though . |