Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Rowntree 's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth . |
2 | It should be said , incidentally , that the remastering of the original 78s has , without affecting the overall frequency range , virtually eliminated their surface noise and produced remarkably quiet backgrounds : the only exception is the Prokofiev sonata ( which Horowitz introduced the USA ) , where the 1945 recording ( the earliest here ) is also more resonant and in which , just occasionally , a little to much pedal is used : the tremendous drive of his rhythm nevertheless makes for a compelling performance . |
3 | Indeed , it seems to be a general rule that organisms acquire new capacities by modifying existing structures rather than by inventing wholly new ones . |
4 | Businesses , such as property investment companies , which may make wholly exempt supplies , can not reclaim any input VAT . |
5 | whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy . |
6 | The women migrants within countries became overwhelmingly domestic servants , until they married some fellow-countryman , or passed into some other urban occupation . |
7 | To identify a new chairperson for the board , or to derive full value from bringing on those trustees , five years is too short . |
8 | A strip of electrician 's tape stuck round both sides of the base to make them waterproof and they 're ideal for bringing on any bulbs destined for the windowsill . |
9 | The very notion of struggle will , of course , trigger widely varied responses among readers , quickening some , frightening others , bewildering yet others again . |
10 | First , they extend its existing range , studying female subjects in areas which have previously been researched using predominantly male samples . |
11 | It has , however , come to represent the ‘ norm ’ in technical writing to such a degree that , even if a writer was not particularly interested in giving an impression of objectivity , s/he would find it difficult to break away from the convention of using predominantly passive structures in technical writing . |
12 | They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists ' arguments , for example . |
13 | Diocesan resources are in part historically determined — the older dioceses like Lincoln , Canterbury and Winchester enjoying rather more riches than their modern counterparts — but all derive a considerable part of their revenue from allocated parochial contributions . |
14 | These dealers cite widely varying reasons for their moves , including the search for new markets for American art , local dealing rights to the work of desirable American artists , access to art in European and Eastern European collections , favourable exchange rates and participation in the new European economic community . |
15 | His very uniqueness made most other pilots avoid him . |
16 | At the Home Office , he impressed opponents and civil servants alike by the way he piloted intensely complex Bills through Parliament . |
17 | Another difficulty with making distinctions about types of detail given is that the way the recall test was structured may have encouraged subjects to report mostly central details and no attempt was made to interrogate subjects ’ memories for details which may have been peripheral . |
18 | It was interesting that at the controversial Chequers seminar on Germany six British and American experts voiced overwhelmingly favourable opinions about Germany and the Germans ( ‘ If Chancellor Kohl had sat in , he would have agreed with or accepted as fair comments 90 per cent of what was said ’ , commented one of them ) . |
19 | Using wholly incompatible weapons systems and riven by language difficulties , the troops lack the capacity to fight as coordinated units . |
20 | When sexual response in older people is reduced it has more to do with social factors such as the absence of a partner ; health problems , particularly relating to cardiovascular disease , diabetes , multiple sclerosis and prostrate troubles ; drug side-effects ( many drugs prescribed to older people can have adverse effects on sexual functioning ) ; and the intolerance of social attitudes towards sexual activity in older people , which consider sex to be the province of younger people and that older people make rather ridiculous lovers . |
21 | I hate dead white things ! |
22 | Earlier , the House heard the hon. Member for Dartford ( Mr. Dunn ) make wholly untrue allegations about Labour 's policies with respect to the savings and income from savings of pensioners . |
23 | The latest meeting of the International Tropical Timber organization ( ITTO ) , which groups together leading producer and consumer countries , produced little firm conclusions , leaving many members predicting that the organization would soon wither away . |
24 | Women born in 1955–9 with non-manual fathers expected rather more children ( 2.44 to 2.12 ) than women from manual backgrounds , and the new difference is maintained in the most recent cohorts ( General Household Survey ) . |
25 | Jim looked over and smiled as his daughter made rather ungainly attempts to emulate the lively young girls above her , but then as he watched he became slightly concerned , because her movements became even more ungainly and then spasmodic , and then jerky until her head was nodding , her legs shooting out in a frenzy , her arms twitching , and she fell , uttering a loud cry , which was so strong and unreal , that it stilled the noise of the bagpipes and everyone looked to see what was happening . |
26 | Many of the relatives and friends who rated the homes as an excellent place for the person who died to live towards the end of his or her life made rather perfunctory comments : ‘ I ca n't fault the home ’ ; ‘ It was very nice , no qualms about it . ’ |
27 | The finality of the separation became clear two years later when their father and his girlfriend Alison made a suprise announcement one evening at McDonald 's . |
28 | The hon. Member for Blackburn produces wholly fictitious figures which compare the new building costs for new schools or for the conversion of schools to CTCs over a period of three years with the capital expenditure borrowing guidelines for 14 authorities in one year . |
29 | Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open , footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road . |
30 | The little ship had given remarkably good results and was immediately put into service to carry bulk cargo across the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea . |