Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That stereotype speaks less for women 's liberation than a society which treats children as a disruptive influence , a social nuisance . |
| 2 | The third moment of situational change begins sometime after the Second World War — most strikingly with the advent of rock 'n' roll — and can be termed the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ . |
| 3 | This procedure is unusual in that Genette devotes far more attention to Proust than other narratological studies have to actual texts , and it is also unusual in that Proust 's novel is an infinitely more complex work than those which narrative theories have commonly analyzed : with Boccaccio 's Decameron , Todorov was taking relatively simple specimens as points of reference for his narratological analyses . |
| 4 | The fact that in these experiments there is no evidence for differentiation may mean only that differentiation produces less powerful effects than does mediation . |
| 5 | A general amnesty for the 4,000-5,000 Stasi spies still thought to be active in West Germany , originally approved by the West German Cabinet on Aug. 31 and then delayed , had not taken place as of late October 1990 . |
| 6 | But once employed as capital that money stays there , it 's stuck and hopefully it earns money but it 's stuck there forever until the sale of that asset is is a achieved . |
| 7 | That money goes directly into farmers ' pockets . |
| 8 | Again , that money goes directly into the farmers ' pockets . |
| 9 | That money has now dried up . |
| 10 | It must be recalled that money stands here as the symbol of abstraction in human relations . |
| 11 | When the combined level drops below 630 litres a float valve opens , allowing fuel from the 122-litre tip tanks to transfer to the front one under bleed-air pressure . |
| 12 | That settlement has now come through you 'll see the details in the papers er but we also want to have regard to the fact that the award for the and bridges has actually been reduced substantially by thousand pounds the total reduction in that area approach one point five million pounds . |
| 13 | In fact , the rate at which a bee learns each component differs dramatically between various geographic races of honey bee , strongly implicating a genetic basis for the different learning curves . |
| 14 | In general , accounting and economic literature has only begun to do this relatively recently . |
| 15 | Okay , so I mean they sa they all do say they 'll be talking at the same time , but as I say , th that bit goes there . |
| 16 | Today , every voice in pop must be a Voice , must measure up , because today , anything less than a raucous tear-blob sounds simply feeble on Planet Pop , must die like the runt . |
| 17 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 18 | ‘ I initially agreed to a meeting but that decision has now been put on hold , ’ he explained . |
| 19 | Thanks to landline links , telephone and radio , this three-way split works amazingly well . |
| 20 | Against that background a European framework becomes more attractive . |
| 21 | The annealing algorithm runs thus : |
| 22 | It is less clear , however , to what extent and in what ways this broad division has actually manifested itself in the classroom and in internal school debates and policies , and in local authority policies . |
| 23 | 291 made off 366 balls , with 38 fours , in just under eight hours does rather speak for itself . |
| 24 | Each course involves more advanced study of the topic in question than at ordinary level . |
| 25 | Each course involves still further political damage to Major , his earlier Teflon coating having long since worn through . |
| 26 | The arguments for the development of the media industries of regional cities has always had both economic and cultural aspects . |
| 27 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 28 | peasant and that that had had adverse consequences in terms of maybe economic output , certainly in terms of mobilization , certainly in terms of , of political effect on , on the middle peasant and therefore there had to be the , the correcting bit to this and that correction comes either very late forty seven but particularly early nineteen forty eight when the excesses of the , the campaigns and excesses against the middle peasants have to be , be corrected and there are very clear statements from Mao that the middle peasant must not be encroached upon . |
| 29 | The explanation for the lacklustre increase of 260% since 1975 for one of the century 's greatest artists lies also in the variable quality and variety of styles . |
| 30 | Eight-year-old Gerald pauses mid-way through extracting the marrow from a colobus bone with a short stick ( held between thumb and forefinger ) , which he had first stripped of leaves and broken to length . |