Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 2 | Most women grow up absolutely torn and still somehow knowing that they have to make some kind of choice . |
| 3 | The Miami Cubans are flexing their wallets for the return to a country whose people are healthier , better educated and less racially divided than when the exiles left . |
| 4 | Note that a county court may transfer proceedings back to the magistrates ' court at any time before trial if the criteria for transfer are not met or no longer apply but the court must have regard to the child 's interests and the need to avoid delay ( APO , art 11 ) . |
| 5 | The Prussian government passed legislation designed to Germanise landholdings in the border districts , but these laws were so badly framed and so crudely implemented that they had exactly the reverse effect from that intended . |
| 6 | Once there , Maria let her robe slide from her shoulders before stepping quickly out of her pants while Luke undressed swiftly , tantalising shadows playing over his flesh , revealed and then tormentingly concealed as he moved in and out of the circle of soft golden light that came from the lamp at one side of her low , wide bed . |
| 7 | A list thus compiled will derive from choices more intelligently made and more efficiently expressed than any that could emerge from a primary ; and if in recording regional judgements it should not be entirely pleasing to a party 's national headquarters , so much , most provincials would say , the better . |
| 8 | AFTER The Graduate finished shooting , Dustin returned to New York to live quietly with Anne and her daughter Karina in his small Greenwich Village apartment on West 11th Street , having absolutely no conception of how his performance or the film would be received and not fully realising that the long days of anonymity would soon be over for ever . |
| 9 | Could we not look forward to an era where our syllabuses for instruction in schools were as carefully drafted , as well produced and as widely read and discussed as our development plans for education ? |
| 10 | Third , the worrying suspicion that amongst the evidence already accumulated , the statements taken , the people interviewed , the personal relationships observed , the obiter dicta , the geography of North Oxford — that amongst all these things somewhere there was a fact that he had seen or heard but never fully recognised or understood . |
| 11 | Consequently , if best practicable means are taken to limit the discharge of such gases to levels recommended by the Health and Safety Executive , odour emission will be correspondingly reduced and even totally removed where the concentration at which a particular odour is perceived , i.e. its odour threshold detection value , exceeds the recommended emission level for that particular substance . |
| 12 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 13 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 14 | The story of biblical criticism has been so well documented and so often told that I will not recount it . |
| 15 | Those which lacked this essential source of strength were either impotent small ones on the fringes of the great political developments of the age , such as the Italian republics , or , in the case of some more important States , were notably less well governed and less effectively led than their neighbours and competitors . |
| 16 | Finally , the safety of longterm maintenance therapy to prevent peptic ulcer recurrence has been discussed but not fully evaluated because barely 15 years have elapsed since their introduction world-wide . |
| 17 | What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ? |