Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If somebody who has been actually shot at by a nuclear weapon is so goddamned complacent about it all , and so pig ignorant of the implications of the happening , what hope have we got that public opinion ( the silent majority ) will be sufficiently stirred to stop our power intoxicated leaders from brandishing their nuclear swords ?
2 Often what begin as experimental course-work exercises of only medium-to-poor standard become high.quality on.going productions as teachers not only get accustomed to the requirements of curriculum materials planning but recognize through experience the stimulating value of these materials in their work with students .
3 Indeed , Bakhtin provides an example of someone whose thought has only become influential in the years following his death .
4 Many foods naturally contain sufficient of the kinds of fat needed for good health ; you do not actually need to add extra .
5 An armoured car obligingly shines its headlamps to facilitate a brief inspection by 20 people or so , soon cut short on the instructions of an officer .
6 okay when you get those cut out you can just play with them just get used to the sizes and the shapes and erm make sure that you ask someone .
7 A London Irish player from Western Samoa , second row Mata'afa Keenan , is also expected to declare for Ireland and thus become eligible for the Exiles .
8 The ESO provisions above have certain of the characteristics of the CYPA supervision order .
9 I have met your " friend " once — his clothes always smell musty from the fumes .
10 He could scarcely have packed into a single letter more matter offensive to the ideals of the reformed papacy .
11 These artists clearly stand close to the Pioneers and are attempting to adapt black-figure to the new movement , with some success : crowded compositions , figures overlapping each other or the borders or cut off by them , vigorous drawing with rather slap dash incision ; but the elaborate fore shortenings and musculature are not much attempted and do not come off very well .
12 He said he felt for the staff who had given so much for Timex , then added : ‘ I also feel sad for the strikers . ’
13 Scots very often appear bleak in the eyes of the English .
14 but as she said you if you make twenty arrangements and you sell half of them you just about break even with the flowers you 've bought to do them .
15 Companies can find it difficult to know which agencies they should approach and , according to Ms Gordon , often become frustrated with the agencies for sending along unsuitable applicants .
16 Practice as to translation requirements varies greatly ; although the relevant information is set out in the Practical Handbook published by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague conference , which is held by all Central Authorities , other applicants often fall foul of the rules .
17 Similarly , when the government discovers that a large part of the loans raised from abroad has been used to make dinar loans to Yugoslav enterprises , and that the dinar service payments on the latter loans increasingly fall short of the amounts required to meet the interest and principal on these foreign debts , it instructs the National Bank to cover the difference by issuing new money .
18 Their basic complaint is that the correspondents are fed ‘ the Government line ’ which they then regurgitate undigested over the pages of tomorrow 's newspapers or on tonight 's television screens .
19 ‘ Yow 'ave ter look nice for the boys . ’
20 They too look good on the shelves , though are not made of wood .
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