Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behaviourists , for example , want only to treat of overt behaviour as the data for psychological research and this is as much a theoretical specification of what , for them , is to count as data as experience and meaning are for non-behaviourists . |
| 2 | Boss wrongly sacked for sexual harassment |
| 3 | Deep sleep only troubled by noisy return of Mudskippers from ‘ The 361 Guppies ’ 30 minutes after closing time . |
| 4 | Enjoy the tops in transatlantic music when the Stylistics fly over to star with Suzi Quatro on the week-end of Friday , November 13 , to Monday , November 16 . |
| 5 | The most popular television crime series , such as The Sweeney , Minder , The Professionals , Juliet Bravo , Hill Street Blues , tend not to deal with corporate crime and the business criminal . |
| 6 | The 1949 Representation of the People Act effectively brought to final fruition the principle of " one person one vote . " |
| 7 | He was n't sure that a god of any kind would make asides to the audience , let along speak in Middle English and quote Wordsworth . |
| 8 | Hell , Doc , your packagin' gets better and better , but what you put inside stinks to high heaven , you know . |
| 9 | cut back spending on nuclear research programmes , in order to concentrate on renewable sources of energy and their commercial introduction . |
| 10 | Hitchcock enables users to generate QuickTime movies , print directly to videotape from hard disk , export a professional edit decision list for compatibility with high-end post-production suites , or integrate with Video F/X for tape and disk-based editing . |
| 11 | The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner . |
| 12 | As for ‘ defending one 's culture against homogenisation ’ , some of Morrissey 's songs and attitudes seem more worried about cross-cultural fertilisation . |
| 13 | The results give further support to previous pilot studies with bismuth preparations . |
| 14 | Finally , let us note that titles of address and all vocative forms seem invariably marked for speaker-referent relationship : there is no such thing , it seems , as a socially neutral summons or address ( see Zwicky , 1974 : 795 re English ) . |
| 15 | The two of them move from room to room and stand there nodding in apparent admiration of Tod 's handiwork . |
| 16 | shine On ridden with breathtaking confidence by the young apprentice Kelly Connor who got up in the last stride to — ’ |
| 17 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 18 | This week saw the second of their massive Kinnockathons , which set out to prove at vast length and with exquisite tedium what Punch first established in May last year , to wit : that both Hansard and the cuttings files are full of daft remarks uttered in the days when the windbag was still a firebrand . |
| 19 | Each new financial futures exchange initially concentrates on local cash market instruments as a basis for its product range . |
| 20 | It helps if we know where to go for formal approval of decisions , or know who is responsible for what . |
| 21 | good , that ties in with , you know , what we know actually happens in real life . |
| 22 | We tend now to think of Classical bronze statuary , for example , as being covered with a fine green or deep brown patina , and moreover that this was their original state . |
| 23 | In the urge to achieve coverage those who find little comfort in academic work may be given an arid diet of superficiality which neither ‘ promotes ’ their ‘ spiritual , moral , cultural development ’ nor ‘ prepares ’ them for the opportunities , responsibilities and experiences of adult life . |
| 24 | Labour eventually agreed to Christian Democrat demands to end the linkage of state benefits to private-sector wages , in return for a reduction in the proposed cuts in state benefits , a commitment to increase social security payments by 3 per cent in 1992 , and provisions for the lowest income sector to receive tax concessions . |
| 25 | The classifications we use normally depend on fine-grained analysis of language , and I move on in section 3.6 to the analytic aspects of the work . |
| 26 | The services of the hospitals have only recently become more integrated with primary care services outside . |
| 27 | But if we turn now to look at dramatic playing we see that that particular mode does indeed reflect the private/public tension in all respects . |
| 28 | From then on you whipped every time the top slowed down , the ‘ spinners ’ would generally move up to two feet , then carry on turning with increased speed . |
| 29 | ‘ You carry on playing with great belief , with confidence you stay together and put it right . |
| 30 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |