Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . ’ |
| 34 | It is the service sector , producing little foreign currency , that has swollen . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Triticale bread has not yet gained wide acceptance in developing countries where supermarkets and bakeries sell mostly white bread made from bleached flour . |
| 37 | Despite cutting back the undergrowth to keep routes open , footpads and other outlaws haunted most lonely stretches of road . |
| 38 | In reality , one finds people reading newspapers , knitting and drinking cups of tea , but this constitutes rather dull television . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | These findings of fact were given remarkably short shrift by Lord Parker C.J. who held that the conduct could not amount to insulting behaviour . |
| 41 | The modem software is Bitcom , which allows file transfers using most popular protocols and fits the modems spec well . |
| 42 | The Supreme Soviet passed legislation on May 29 allowing wholly foreign-owned companies to operate in the Soviet Union . |
| 43 | District nurses have always had the skills to treat acutely ill patients , but have not had nurses or aides under them . |
| 44 | However , this was soon extended by using spare areas on the payroll files for personnel information and maintaining wholly separate data files containing information on absence and leavers . |
| 45 | In their study of 41 women who had cared for their own mother before she died , Lewis and Meredith comment that to an outside observer ‘ the majority of respondents led remarkably restricted lives ’ ( Lewis and Meredith , 1988 , p. 87 ) . |
| 46 | If you live a fast , hectic life and you eat mostly ready-made convenience foods , try to consider some other alternatives . |
| 47 | He had set his heart on punching tickets and helping little old ladies on and off the bus , but he was spurned . |
| 48 | It involves predominantly young people who have been involved in taking vehicles without consent for many years . |
| 49 | Foliage begonias , with their colourful and attractively patterned leaves , make most rewarding houseplants . |
| 50 | Shirking and the pursuit of managerial goals are generally regarded as forms of behaviour that are socially inefficient , since the former involves the sub-optimal use of resources and the latter , on the assumptions discussed in Chapter 1 , produces allocatively inefficient outcomes . |
| 51 | Then in chronological order came the following : Hemel Hempstead ( 1947 ) replacing Redbourn as proposed in the Abercrombie plan , was designed to fill in the area between Harpenden , St Albans and Remel Hempstead itself ; Harlow ( 1947 ) , 23 miles north-east of London , expanded a small settlement of 4,500 people ; Crawley ( 1947 ) , a town of 9,500 population , lay astride the Brighton Road , 30 miles south of London ; Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City ( both 1948 ) lay very close to each other 18–20 miles north of London ( Welwyn was already a sizable town of 18,500 inhabitants ) ; Basildon ( 1949 ) met rather different objectives , planned not only to accommodate overspill but to tidy up an untidy area of shack development between London and Southend ; Bracknell ( 1949 ) replaced Abercrombie 's proposal for White Waltham , three miles south-west of Maidenhead , west of London . |
| 52 | What was involved in this extension of structural linguistics was a profound alteration of perspective in most of the human sciences ; it was no longer a question of gathering empirically verifiable data ; of turning a positivist gaze onto a world of objects , but it meant seeing forms of expression as signs whose meanings depend on conventions , relations and systems , rather than on any inherent features . |
| 53 | Again we have been given right royal treatment by a preserved railway , following our wonderful trip to the Llangollen last year . |
| 54 | His ‘ Organ ’ Symphony , recorded in Les Invalides , never sounded particularly impressive on LP given rather cloudy sound which took the edge off what was obviously a fine performance , but CD remastering has done wonders for the engineering and the results are most exciting . |
| 55 | As the aircraft were left out ‘ dispersed ’ most of the time in English or in tropical rain these compartments soon became little damp boxes , often with a puddle at the bottom . |
| 56 | Although glutamate is one amongst many dozens of transmitters , it itself interacts with postsynaptic cells in several different ways ; there are at least three different types of postsynaptic glutamate receptor , each differently distributed amongst cells responsive to glutamate , each with rather different pharmacological properties and each producing rather different types of postsynaptic responses . |
| 57 | These were introduced into Persia and Anatolia in the late 19th century , but proved to be totally unsuitable for rug yarns , producing rather crude colours that were given to rapid fading . |
| 58 | In Burkina Faso , Mali , Malawi , Uganda and Ghana TRANSAID is passing on its skills through training for drivers , riders and mechanisms working to support widely dispersed health facilities . |
| 59 | This is a field which involves rather different skills from those needed for advertising , and some agencies , my own for one , have a separate design department to handle this type of job . |
| 60 | Notwithstanding their impulse to improve , most officials came to recognize , after a year or two in Masailand , that on the whole the Masai made remarkably efficient use of the land . |