Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concluding this section , it can be said that manual workers not only suffer more from the costs and deprivations of the workplace than non-manual workers but they also receive lower compensation and rewards in terms of pay , fringe benefits and , in some instances , even of social security benefits . |
| 2 | It was the same hexagonal design as any of the thousands you can still see along the South Coast or that you suddenly come across in the wilds of East Anglia for no apparent reason until you realize that the fields you 're driving through were once airfields littered with empty Lucky Strike packets and B52 bombers . |
| 3 | While it is true that the terms of the debate are often unclear , and while confusing signs constantly come even from the Euro-enthusiasts ( such as when the French Foreign Minister called for ‘ une fédération d'Etats souverains ’ the overwhelming evidence indicates that the prime movers in European union mean business . |
| 4 | Yes , it 's like just walk all over the students again . |
| 5 | High-speed trains in France already compete successfully with the airlines ( and cars ) over relatively short distances , as , for example , Paris-Lyons . |
| 6 | It still lay there on the keys , the fingers extended to form the shape . |
| 7 | The Imperial Rescript on Education was promulgated in October 1890 and thereafter read regularly in the schools of the empire until all children knew it by heart . |
| 8 | Many black teachers hardly fare better at the hands of their white colleagues , often finding themselves the butt of racist jokes , hostile remarks and isolation in the staff room . |
| 9 | After a string of by-elections in which the Liberals had done badly — they always do better under the Tories , especially in the South — and in the wake of the Thorpe affair , the Liberals desperately needed respectability . |
| 10 | Croatian and Bosnian forces recaptured Mostar from the Serbs last June , but the shells still fall sporadically from the mountains , and no-one here believes the Serbs are finished yet . |
| 11 | Rockhoppers usually come ashore in the evenings and it is well worth a special trip to watch the performance . |
| 12 | A handful of other members who live locally attend just for the lectures . |
| 13 | Red-billed and Yellow-billed Hornbills from Africa also breed here in the gardens . |
| 14 | Occupational groups clearly vary considerably in the sanctions and resources at their disposal ( Hyman 1980 ) . |
| 15 | No relationship is without conflict yet we rarely talk honestly about the faults of the person who has died . |
| 16 | When they are in moult they often sit ashore on the rocks , when their dark brown plumage blends in with the dark rocks . |
| 17 | The deeply moated site of the former manor house marks the edge of the old settlement ; sheep now graze peacefully over the remains of the village and over the ridge and furrow patterns of what were once the communal arable fields . |
| 18 | We now look briefly at the eigenvectors . |
| 19 | Now go uptown to the heights of Lansdown where there 's another clutch of shops devoted to decorative antiques . |
| 20 | Hering 's concepts are of general value although patients often improve gradually without the directions being too obvious or without any recurrence of old symptoms . |
| 21 | Independent fishmongers often buy directly from the ports using Billingsgate , the central wholesale market for shops and restaurants across the whole of southern England , as a back-up . |
| 22 | Others floated slowly downstream , sitting upright like bathtoys amid a flotsam of bottles and skeins of plastic and what seemed to be sandwiches , while several more patrolled a little shingly beach almost beneath the piers of the bridge . |
| 23 | For the sake of my parents , for the sake of their loved ones , for the sake of justice , and for the sake of a civilised society , please come forward to the police with your information . |
| 24 | He would stride ahead to the next junction of corridors , twirling his umbrella , and then wait impatiently for the others to catch up . |
| 25 | If you 've set your heart on some specific feature — say , white carpet — and find it 's not feasible or practical or that it 's too expensive , then look sensibly at the alternatives and find a less impossible compromise . |
| 26 | Then smudge downwards towards the lashes , using a cotton bud or a small brush . |
| 27 | They then return quickly to the jobs for which they have been trained . |
| 28 | Most of the animals in the sea either feed directly upon the diatoms and flagellates of the phytoplankton , or feed upon creatures that have fed upon that phytoplankton . |
| 29 | Echo staff once again feature prominently in the awards . |