Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Luckily he had fallen asleep again before he could find out who was responsible . |
| 2 | There is ample evidence that those ties remain strong even as the character of networks changes in other ways and thus these basic family links continue to be the first line of defence , the more so because other forms of association may weaken . |
| 3 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 4 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 5 | Nor did the Socialists abandon political appointments ; indeed , the growing number of party activists occupying senior management posts in public enterprises ( see Diario 16 , 30 January 1985 ) illustrated the government 's belief that the introduction of its policies of commercialism was an operation demanding political rather than purely managerial skill . |
| 6 | involves hypothetical rather than real choices . |
| 7 | A report commissioned in March [ see p. 38822 ] published on July 2 described LMX underwriters as showing " seriously flawed " judgment in assessing the risks involved , while the repeated reinsurance risks of other Lloyd 's syndicates meant that risks became concentrated rather than spread across the market . |
| 8 | No , I would say I want the same school , you can do with me what you like , Paul I suggest you do n't throw that away before I loose my temper with you . |
| 9 | We did cover that yesterday because obviously it 's an absolutely crucial point , and when we do a one-day course , we actually make people do one minute against the clock . |
| 10 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 11 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 12 | Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office . |
| 13 | These amount to rich pickings , given that more than 20m British households have a garden . |
| 14 | Although serfs became free only when they were recruited into the regular army , not when they enrolled in a militia , in the mid-1850s they chose to believe otherwise . |
| 15 | When recounting this incident in his published memoirs Lehmann added , ‘ But in later years these demonstrations became painful rather than exhilarating to take part in . ’ |
| 16 | Hence the owner also would find it worthwhile acceding to contract 2 rather than contract 1 . |
| 17 | Emily seemed to sense this too as she gazed at the uppermost branches . |
| 18 | I tell you something else as well , if you want me to take you out any time you want me to take you out and , and I mean this honestly if you do n't want sex you wo n't have to have it |
| 19 | This is where the technical bit always goes wrong even when |
| 20 | A number of possible reasons have been identified for the rapid expansion of private sector residential care : the increase in the numbers of very old people , the reduction in long-stay hospital provision , cuts in local authority spending , and finally , the ‘ perverse incentives ’ of the social security system that encourages residential rather than community care . |
| 21 | Shaking with terror , her heart pounding , she could n't have broken free even if she had wanted . |
| 22 | For any individual , society is a massive external reality , and it is necessary to emphasise this simply because we tend to take for granted these social arrangements as natural , immovable and inevitable . |
| 23 | She was beginning to miss SPRED even although she and Gerry have kept in touch with Mary and Clare . |
| 24 | ‘ Initially I planned this simply because I wanted to go from coast to coast , but then I thought I might as well try and raise some money for the hospice which is on my beat . |
| 25 | Lydia realised this afresh when she came downstairs the following morning . |
| 26 | Did he tell you to plant this here while he wined and dined me ? |
| 27 | It was the value and aptness of a ‘ Depraving and Corrupting Publications Act ’ which later became manifest later when the worst of the so-called ‘ video nasties ’ were found by judges and juries alike to have the effect of selling and reinforcing the pleasures of sadism . |
| 28 | Oh do n't knock this though cos |
| 29 | I think we 've heard this before as well . |
| 30 | For some reason she found that just as unnerving . |