Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular if the external situation is conceived of as changing through time , the phrase " as initially present to the mind " by no means necessarily refers to an earlier state of a real or imaginary referent . |
| 2 | The words are organized around symmetrical pairs ( grace/wretch ; lost/found ; blind/see ) and the tune , at least in its best known version , not only divides into an open/closed parallelism , through its cadence structure , but within this , the subsidiary phrases form complementary pairs ; moreover , the overall pitch contour follows the arch shape typical of this song type ( see Ex. 1.1 ) . |
| 3 | An irresistible force constantly clashes with an immovable object , leading to periodic political " crises " on the funding issue , and these reached a peak before the 1987 election . |
| 4 | It may be significant , however , that Mr Allworthy 's house is Gothic , and thus belongs to an older pattern of society and architecture with a rather different idea of human community . |
| 5 | Knowledge generally evolves from an identifiable base , and often new subjects arise from the coming together of two previously separate subjects . |
| 6 | A prototype for this already exists in an Interim Agreement that the US signed with France , West Germany and Britain last November . |
| 7 | The receiver is basically foolproof and generally consists of an external power supply , output jack , level control and RF damping . |
| 8 | Founded on this 18th-century anecdotal evidence , the argument soon degenerates into an inconclusive oh-yes-they-can , oh-no-they-ca n't shouting match . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , it soon degenerates into an unconvincing whodunit . |
| 10 | A wry and comical early cynicism rapidly transforms into an overwhelming sense of sourness . |
| 11 | But Bradley still drawls with an irritating arrogance . |
| 12 | The disease usually occurs as an acute infection of the throat , but it can affect the heart and brain of infants and young children . |
| 13 | Something in me still revolts at an outright demand : it draws me into explanations of the connection between money and work . |
| 14 | It usually results in an inconsistent program structure and an unexpected " Too many FORs/REPEATs/GOSUBs " error on the BBC Micro when the control stack overflows . |
| 15 | Even so , PT Timah took many years to develop its own technical expertise and still depends to an important degree on technical assistance from multinationals , including Billiton . |
| 16 | Normal response to the test , however , still depends on an intact nerve supply . |
| 17 | Professionals have training and experience which are valuable in planning services ; ignoring them almost always leads to an inferior service . |
| 18 | Debate as to the relative merits of foot and horse continued for many centuries , and still exists in an attenuated form in the modern technological army . |
| 19 | Somehow , the vision of Morrissey , Marr , Joyce and Rourke driving Porsches down the Seven Sisters Road and heading for an evening 's ligging at The Camden Palace , still seems like an impossible nightmare . |
| 20 | The famous D sharp Etude begins fairly quiet and slowly , but the temperature gradually rises to an incredible degree at the climax . |
| 21 | Like finds at an archaeological site , each book listed there is an object that speaks for itself . |
| 22 | In most fungi the main structure consists of a number of threads ( hyphae ) which collectively form a mycelium , but the vegetative body of Laboulbeniales usually consists of an ordered array of cells , a precisely-arranged axis on which the reproductive organs are borne . |
| 23 | The ombudsman claims that the jurisdiction and duty to investigate conferred and imposed on him by the scheme enables and requires him to investigate and determine complaints in relation to valuations made by employees of a building society of properties to be charged to the building society to secure further advances to an existing borrower from that society . |
| 24 | It looks like a sagging , browny-grey jelly that fairly rapidly decays into an unpleasant mush . |
| 25 | At the north end of the island , near the tumbled remains of the slip where the handle of the rusty winch still creaks in an easterly wind , I had two Poles on the far face of the last dune . |
| 26 | Eden 's licensing policy is relatively flexible , but usually works on an initial charge plus royalty basis . |
| 27 | An interim care order gives more flexibility to the plaintiffs as well as the other advantages of a care order and although , as I said at the outset , one rarely interferes with an interim order , in the present case I am less disinclined to interfere because of the initial invalidity of part of the order made by the justices . |
| 28 | But the animal also lives in an external environment and we have here a fundamental new set of ethical values being developed by the ecologists and ‘ green ’ people . |
| 29 | He probably looks like an absolute berk in this outfit . |
| 30 | It also looks like an original engine if you wish to preserve originality . |