Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , despite the functionalist tendencies already mentioned , The History of Sexuality does offer an alternative view of seeing the relationship between sexuality and wider social forces to the traditional functionalism of many ( particularly ) left interpretations , which tend to see a direct relationship between the nuclear family and organisation of sexuality , either in the interests of capitalism or as directly responsive to the urges of ‘ modernisation ’ . |
| 2 | The project was awarded £750 for a detailed pre-feasibility study , with Hayling , in his GLC capacity , responsible for making sure the report was properly written and the grant money not wasted . |
| 3 | Below decks , Grace was shipshape , but after calling on Lord Jim Nenna always felt impelled to start cleaning the bright-work . |
| 4 | A ‘ NOXIOUS TWIT ’ one Newfoundland writer once called Paul Watson . |
| 5 | He kept in with the Soviets in case Moscow ever prevailed in Bucharest — plus the extra money he undoubtedly obtained . ’ |
| 6 | On the subject of the 1969 guidelines , William Park cryptically concluded in 1986 that the status of the proposed " demonstration shot " in Nato 's nuclear strategy still remained " unclear " . |
| 7 | Over the years , the traffic swelled to such an extent that La Chapelle eventually expanded to form four separate stations : La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Chapelle-Charbons , La Chapelle-Triage , and La Chapelle-Annexe . |
| 8 | This is why Cardinal Newman once remarked , " It is not reason that is against us , but imagination . " |
| 9 | The last thing a child of 15 needed , Frances Crook forcibly suggested , was cell confinement and sensory deprivation . |
| 10 | The massive tax increases that lie ahead should go some way to reassure the financial markets that he is determined to redress a recessionary budget deficit now projected to run at £50 billion — £1 billion a week — in the current year . |
| 11 | And its LANStreamer MC 32 Adaptor , which eliminates local network bottlenecks , and Person to Person/2 , designed to enable people at remote locations to work together , are among five new local networking OEM products now offered by IBM . |
| 12 | In addition to misinforming the administration of some of his travel arrangements , in mid-June Sununu also used a White House limousine to make a 200-mile trip to New York to attend a rare stamp auction . |
| 13 | I left my croft cottage fully furnished — TV , stereo and all that ; two cars as well . |
| 14 | Releases money currently tied up in a depreciating asset on which no direct return is being obtained or capital employed . |
| 15 | Of course Truman always kept a framed copy of that hanging in his office . |
| 16 | It would have been a more complete list had Wirral and St Helens authorities not instructed their schools to ignore our request for information although some Wirral schools did reply . |
| 17 | In his writings Sant' Ambrogio occasionally made reference to the Basilica Vetus , a very early ( perhaps the earliest ) Christian church in Milan . |
| 18 | Building products also improved , from £21.5 million to £22.4 million , on demand from Germany for copper tube and fittings at the start of the year . |
| 19 | A pupil of the anatomist John Hunter , Van Butchell later practised as a highly successful dentist before becoming an eminent truss-maker , specializing in the treatment of fistula . |
| 20 | As he left Number 10 , Ian Gilmour sourly summed up the changes by saying they were ‘ not much good if you are steering full-speed ahead for the rocks ’ . |
| 21 | Dietary calcium supplementation drastically increased thetotal faecal fatty acid concentration ( Fig 4 ) and this reflects the inhibition of the intestinal absorption of fatty acids . |
| 22 | Ariel A147 is a budget tent best suited to campsites and car boot camping |
| 23 | SUPERFIT body-builder Bernard Ayre just managed to gasp out ‘ I love you ’ as he collapsed dying in his wife 's arms . |
| 24 | And Patrick Lundy suddenly understood . |
| 25 | Located at 575 Broadway , on the corner of Prince Street , the museum has rented several floors in a handsome six-storey brick building originally constructed in 1884 as an office for John Jacob Astor 's banking business . |
| 26 | Director Roger Mills even retained a quip from Alan Whicker ( whom the presenter consulted ) about a Bernard Levin series in which the pretence of solitude was attempted . |
| 27 | The reputation of Connect Four as a hard F8a was demolished as Glen Sutcliffe and Ian Vickers both made single day redpoints of the route within minutes of each other , while I made a one day ascent of Toadal Recall ( F8a ) . |
| 28 | Vic inquires , looking round at the kitchen surfaces already cluttered with numerous electrical appliances — toaster , kettle , coffee-maker , food-processor , electric wok , chip-fryer , waffle-maker … |
| 29 | He says Lineker 's agent Jon Holmes openly canvassed for his man to be made skipper of England . |
| 30 | Arnold Toynbee once argued that it is the ‘ barbaric ’ vital periphery that finally topples a declining civilization , but this maxim does not hold for the Russian Revolution . |