Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or so goes the conventional wisdom . |
| 2 | Female sexuality causes men to lose self-control so that they cease to be responsible for their actions — or so runs the accepted wisdom . |
| 3 | Or so runs the common accusation . |
| 4 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 5 | This undertaking shall not apply to any information which we are required by law to disclose or which is in or hereafter enters the public domain otherwise than through our default . |
| 6 | It is an all too common situation that the advisor miscalculates or simply forgets the relevant time limit within which the application must be made . |
| 7 | The FMLN should ‘ publicly renounce all violent action that directly or indirectly affects the civilian population ’ , the accord said . |
| 8 | Unless Council has a change of heart , however , and both publishes details of the results of the consultation and properly addresses the legitimate concerns expressed , it may find the changes fail to win the backing of the people who matter — the nurses themselves . |
| 9 | And thence begins the ecological richness of Africa . |
| 10 | It devalues this life , offers a delusional picture of the world , and thereby intimidates the independent use of intelligence . |
| 11 | Cast out by his flock , who fail to persuade him that life is merely a question of survival , Jonathan continues to pursue excellence in flight , and eventually discovers the unlimited potential of being . |
| 12 | The CBR is black-body radiation at 2.74 K that bathes the Earth 's orbit and presumably permeates the whole Universe . |
| 13 | The most fascinating aspect of aromatherapy is the influence of aroma on the mind and emotions — and herein lies the mysterious potency of the art . |
| 14 | A quick laborious glance left and right confirms the scarlet tip-tanks equidistant below the horizon . |
| 15 | But one broad flank of the colony faces east and so catches the full warmth of the rising sun . |
| 16 | Thus in ( 36 ) , a typical example of the infinitive of result , managed evokes all the efforts which the subject had to make in order to attain the result and so situates the third-person support in time before — and all the way up to — the point at which " getting free " is actualized . |
| 17 | Media advertising almost certainly has an effect , and so does the prior socialization of women for domesticity . |
| 18 | The opposition parties support Iraq , and so does the Constitutional Union , which is in the ruling coalition . |
| 19 | The problem with the political-business cycle literature lies in the fact that it attempts to deal with the popularity of governments and the nature of public policy-making solely on the basis of a consideration of economic variables alone and so isolates the economic dimension out of the larger political context and ignores the vital part played by non-economic factors in contributing to electoral success . |
| 20 | This indirectly modifies ( 20.10 ) to and so upsets the dimensional argument . |
| 21 | In other words this copies and so reads the entire disk . |
| 22 | True art , or the best art , has a dialogic structure , many voices , and so has the good society . |
| 23 | The ships have gone and so has the Black Rat , but the opportunist Brown Rat remains a threat ashore . |
| 24 | In the strictest sense of the word Iceland is not a ‘ Arctic ’ country ; the Circle nicks only the northern tip of the isle of Grimsey and so leaves the main island in a sub-Arctic no man 's land . |
| 25 | It fails to consider the operation of informal , and often invisible , restraints on office and so lifts the Prime Minister out of the complex constraining context of action . |
| 26 | The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti has been writing since the Thirties and so prefigures the magic realists , but his books are only now becoming known to English readers . |
| 27 | And so comes the baleful conclusion : that Vietnam , a war that split America apart on class lines , continues to be a national sore , causing a steady throb of pain . |
| 28 | He teaches from life , by analogy , and constantly quotes the great masters . |
| 29 | Whereas Symphonic Variations flows onwards in simple serenity , Ashton , following Rachmaninov , here uses an enormous variety of steps and constantly changes the choreographic phrasing to reflect the increasing or diminishing sounds and to match the tempi of the melody , in order to give his enchaînements light and shade and to indicate the sheer complexity of the orchestration . |
| 30 | And greatly helps the failing Lungs . |