Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controlling activities arc so closely linked to Planning and Decision-making activities that it would be advisable to study the next two chapters in conjunction with Chapters 16 and 17 . |
| 2 | SURPRISE OFFER 'S big-race warm up almost turned to disaster at Brighton yesterday today . |
| 3 | One does n't want to wallow in the nostalgia trap so temptingly set by TV Heaven and its bebow-tied host Frank Muir ( though they show Honor Blackman in her Avengers leather kit , it 's hard to resist ) , but Old Boy Network is a long way from The Likely Lads . |
| 4 | The type of copper pipe most commonly used in plumbing is not easy to bend by hand . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that it was implicit in the Housing Act 1957 that a local authority must serve a demand for expenses before bringing an action to recover them under section 10(3) ; but that the requirement to serve such a demand before taking action was a mere procedural step which was not part of the cause of action and that , save as expressly provided by section 10(4) for summary proceedings , the period of limitation began to run from the completion of the works ; and that , accordingly , the action was statute-barred ( post , pp. 126F–G , 129E — 130B ) . |
| 6 | Wipe out well go without peak time I mean . |
| 7 | She saw Cy change his grip on the reins ; Shine On effortlessly moved into overdrive and , in a matter of yards , was well clear of her . |
| 8 | Yet now we 're told indie bands should n't be allowed to make dance records ( because they do n't understand it ) , that at the start these bands wee quite rightly isolated by house ( ’ Here was the nation 's party in full swing and they could n't get in ’ ) . |
| 9 | The decision as to what is best will very much depend on timing . |
| 10 | The imaginative subject — these are the subjects I find most often given in school today . |
| 11 | The general and his lieutenant scurry around cravenly looking for escape , but they are captured , and the Liberation Army enters acrobatically , doing cartwheels , double somersaults , and spectacular sword-play with their bayonets . |
| 12 | Women whose ovaries produce too much suffer from hair on the face and chest , which they find very upsetting . |
| 13 | In some tropical waters there is no mixing of top and bottom waters and vast reaches of ocean remain almost permanently deprived of plankton . |
| 14 | Interests in the North Side , then , do not neatly fit into neighbourhood units which dovetail into the geographic space of the area . |
| 15 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 16 | Italian researchers have shown that Octopuses do not just learn by experience , and by copying other Octopi , but are actively instructed by those who have already learnt the lesson . |
| 17 | STA SODON The worst feelings which do not even lead to suicide |
| 18 | Performers and listeners do not generally warm to music which is written in discordant or arid style . |
| 19 | The 1987 SORP points out that local authorities do not generally accrue for capital expenditure and sales and disposals of capital assets . |
| 20 | The vast flocks of gulls at rubbish tips do not normally compete for food resources with other birds , but black-headed gulls do sometimes take advantage of other species ' food-finding skills . |
| 21 | Their wings do not normally come into contact , but even so there are problems when the dragonfly executes sharp turns . |
| 22 | They do not voluntarily crawl across sand or mud and most species are predominantly intertidal . |
| 23 | So far they have gained little official recognition and therefore do not automatically qualify for government grants to students . |
| 24 | Comparisons between the incomes of age-groups , as in Figure 5.1 , give only very rough indications of differences in disposable financial resources , for they do not fully take into account differences in household composition . |
| 25 | However , such psychological analyses , concentrating upon the individual 's feelings , do not typically take into account the wider , ideological context . |
| 26 | He begins by assuming that men do not naturally co-operate in society , and then seeks an explanation of how society is possible , given the natural state of ‘ war of all against all ’ . |
| 27 | It is also the case , of course , that stated aims do not necessarily match with practice . |
| 28 | Contrary to popular belief , long timespans given over to arduous , repetitive practice do not necessarily equate with improvement . |
| 29 | Audrey Baker , tutor for the National Marriage Guidance Council ( address on page 153 ) , says that although long-established marriages do not necessarily founder at retirement , many couples make themselves miserable by not communicating . |
| 30 | Richard Wright 's study suggests that whilst police do not necessarily look for evidence of extreme violence , they do seek evidence of some violence or threat . |