Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Herman explains , ‘ [ c ] ollective action may result from structural ties between firms that integrate their interest and facilitate coordination between them — such as a common ownership interest — or it may arise out of a recognized common interest or mutual business interdependence with minimal personal contact and communications among the companies and their officials . |
| 2 | The woody tubers may survive outside in a mild winter , but if they do n't , the seeds certainly do , emerging in thickets the following year . |
| 3 | The strict parent or the sarcastic schoolteacher may act more from a suppressed need to hurt than from his or her desire for discipline or wish to be thought amusing . |
| 4 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 5 | Bristol and Liverpool law societies concurred in this approach , whilst Leicestershire felt that the prohibition should relate exclusively to a personal interest on the part of a solicitor ; |
| 6 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 7 | Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife . |
| 8 | We should act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 9 | The standard molar enthalpy of a reaction is written It is essential that should refer unambiguously to a specific equation or formula . |
| 10 | If the seller does agree to convey them , he must do so within a reasonable length of time , section 29(3) . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , manufacturers are still not pushing the business benefits of technology to any great extent — some 80% of those questioned said that bidding vendors had never formally evaluated what they should invest in from a strategic point of view . |
| 12 | When all the contributions are joined together we should finish up with a representative item using a piece of apparatus . |
| 13 | If you must use then as a temporary measure , run them round the room at skirting-board level and tape them in position . |
| 14 | Ideally , the hotel name should feature prominently on a large sign , either over the gateway opening or mounted above the wall each side of the entrance and angled to face incoming traffic . |
| 15 | If it lived up to its name , she thought , it should stick out like a sore thumb among the warm , yellowish stone of the other buildings . |
| 16 | Betula pendula ‘ Youngii ’ , with weeping branches , is a neatly compact form which should fit neatly into a confined space without becoming an embarrassment . |
| 17 | The second type of mutation is at Phe65 , the side chain that must rotate out of a hydrophobic pocket in the apoprotein to allow SAM to bind . |
| 18 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |
| 19 | With the Tories moving on to more radical positions , and the Labour Party now much more centrist , logic seemed to dictate that this kind of Alliance supporter should move back to a Social Democratic outlook identical with that of old Gaitskellites . |
| 20 | When r 1 and r 2 both increase , then ΔS M becomes smaller ; consequently attempts to mix two high molar mass polymer samples will receive little assistance from this function and must depend increasingly on a favourable ( negative ) heat of mixing embodied in the χ parameter . |
| 21 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 22 | We have some hard thinking to do and we must move forward with a positive and radical agenda . ’ |
| 23 | Exceptions to this rule should apply only to a limited number of sectors enumerated in the Treaty . ’ |
| 24 | All these groups are concerned that the EC should develop organically as a co-operative trading bloc and not as a bureaucratic United States of Europe . |
| 25 | The single market legislation envisaged by the White Paper is the specific expression and implementation of the fundamental principle enshrined in the EEC Treaty that goods , services , capital and people should circulate freely throughout a single economic Community . |
| 26 | Presidential elections turn on the personality of the candidate to a far greater extent ; those who seek the presidency must communicate effectively with a mass electorate at a personal level . |
| 27 | Not only must it have an overall structure which makes sense , but individual paragraphs and sentences must knit together in a coherent fashion that others can readily follow . |
| 28 | He was surprised to find , for example , that men who make their living out of reporting news and gossip should go away from a private lunch with him and the Princess and talk about it . |
| 29 | Though no match for Gaelstrom and Now Your Talkin , he was running on well into third at the end , and in receipt of 20lbs from Highland Spirit should go well at a big price . |
| 30 | The outcome is expected to influence Scottish Homes in deciding whether Waverley or Eildon should go forward for a four-week postal ballot in June . |