Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innate behaviour repertoires only change through natural selection over successive generations and , although their range of tolerance , their capacities , can be extended , their capability in responding to rapid day to day environmental shifts is clearly limited . |
| 2 | Mr Winchester is impressively knowledgeable about all manner of things , from the tectonic plates that inexorably grind against each other beneath the Pacific 's waves to the steamer duck paddling furiously away in Patagonia ( although sloppy editing has the duck paddling at 20 knots on one page and a more believable 12 on another ) . |
| 3 | Furthermore transport from one place to another could be by the River Thames rather than the roads , which were not always safe and often impassable in some weather conditions . |
| 4 | The implications for pedagogy of SLA research on the one hand , and studies of communication on the other , come into conflict and so stand in particular need of conceptual evaluation . |
| 5 | Firstly , your garment is likely to be more successful if you use a very similar yarn so look for slubbed cotton for slubbed cotton , acrylic for acrylic , wool for wool and so on . |
| 6 | In such industries the products literally flow from one process to the next , but , unlike in the mass production of individual products , this process is continuous for weeks or months on end . |
| 7 | ‘ Not much demand for that sort of business . |
| 8 | Some writers on such questions unwisely respond with aggressive disagreement to the proposition being put . |
| 9 | There is indeed much disquiet at any delay in immediate fulfilment . |
| 10 | Why did young people suddenly become of such concern for the Government ? |
| 11 | So liaise in good time with either your own dispatch department or an outside mail order company . |
| 12 | Still , I had n't thought I was a big enough fish for this sort of attention . ’ |
| 13 | Putting the problem in these terms already suggests that criteria of knowledge only arise within some set of related concepts , which in turn are connected to certain activities . |
| 14 | Scarlet the heroine has a therapist , for example , but we never actually meet the therapist and , as a result , only engage with this segment of her experience at second hand . |
| 15 | But while I am looking at it my eyes constantly wander from one flower to the next , pausing at some , ignoring others , picking out the details of their shapes and colours . |
| 16 | Erm , if they start to have an illness and it develops we 'll obviously be talking to their doctor , I mean if it 's apparent that they 're blind on the form , well then , obviously we would looking the amount we paid , or , or , erm , basically come to some agreement on that . |
| 17 | A Supervisor of Broadcasting ( Mr John Grist , who has long experience at senior level in broadcasting and television ) has been appointed to work directly on behalf of the Committee and to give directions on its behalf when urgent action is required . |
| 18 | Dimples mischievously collide with each other at odd places around his face as he glances at me and wonders how on earth I could ask a question that is so dumb and yet so fundamental . |
| 19 | In the former camp , organisations such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England vigorously protest at any threat to the Green Belt and argue that derelict , or ‘ brown ’ sites within it should be restored rather than handed over to developers . |
| 20 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 21 | Thus the beliefs , or assessments , of the short term players are not revised monotonically , but nevertheless converge to full information on the type , as the long term player 's strategy converges to its limiting levels . |
| 22 | The classifications we use normally depend on fine-grained analysis of language , and I move on in section 3.6 to the analytic aspects of the work . |
| 23 | Just hold in third gear in anticipation of an overtake on the vehicles in front . |
| 24 | Dr. Lorrimer told me that I ought to find out all I can and not just look on this job as routine . " |
| 25 | But just look at that suite of furniture . |
| 26 | ‘ They already know about this guy from the last time . |
| 27 | Our spies think the best guess for general availability of Solaris-on-iAPX-86 is May . |
| 28 | As a result some publications no longer deal in real information at all , except occasionally by accident . ’ |
| 29 | So but it was erm just go on that bit of the prom , it 's huge ! |
| 30 | But there are plenty of rides suitable for children and the less daring , just choose from any number of family rides available in Funshineland . |