Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long . |
| 2 | These claims may relate either to the internal procedures of the organisation , or to its activities . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I SAID to the man who stood at the gate of the year , ‘ Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown ’ . |
| 5 | The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future . |
| 6 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 7 | It can occur much earlier , but the peak danger period for the disease generally begins from the early part of July , and may persist right through the growing season until the big temperature drops of late autumn upset it . |
| 8 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 9 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 10 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 11 | Even so , honest advertisement of strength providing cues that can not be faked may count most in the long run . |
| 12 | But individual and group behaviour may deviate considerably from the declared goals of the organization , as in the case of punishment-oriented warders in reform and rehabilitation-oriented custodial institutions ; or racially biased police officials ; or socially biased welfare officials . |
| 13 | In the case of single or dominant firm monopolies while it is accepted that these may behave detrimentally to the public interest at large , few democratic governments have had , or are likely to have , the political will to intervene directly in their operation , particularly where their market positions have been legitimately attained , and their activities are not overtly illegal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well let's catch up with the latest from the Manor ground , I think Nick Harris is back in the press box now . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It can leave the Tower if driven out in this way , but it must stay close to the outside walls . |
| 20 | Coming towards winter , birds have usually scoffed the berries of Viburnum opulus by late autumn , but the big , bottle-shaped hips of Rosa moyesii last until Christmas and holly berries should persist well into the New Year . |
| 21 | Accordingly , as you convert your plan into a series of sections or paragraph topics , you should think carefully about the logical or rhetorical relationship between them : e.g. cause and effect ; particularisation and specification ; illustration ( if so , of what exactly ? ) . |
| 22 | 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 ; |
| 23 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 24 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 25 | If it can be weathered without undue damage , interest rates should fall sharply in the latter half of next year . |
| 26 | Whether doctors should concentrate solely on the clinical aspects of general practice or act in a wider capacity to tackle the underlying causes of ill health is a subject often discussed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is for these reasons that Woolwich is not enabled or required to seek its remedy through the statutory framework , but must fall back on the common law . |
| 29 | I hope there will yet be occasion to make use of them again in the same cause , even if we must wait now for a better opportunity . |
| 30 | They should root well by the following November . |