Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | African-Americans in South Central mostly hate Korean store owners and there 's no getting around the fact , as Jesse Jackson tried to do when he said the assaults on Koreans were not racist . |
| 2 | It is in snowy weather that owners of buildings roofed in this way most regret this form of construction because wind-blown powdery snow easily enters narrow chinks in the roof surface , and where there is no underslating felt ( as applies in most old constructions ) , the snow settles between the ceiling joists , later melting and saturating ceilings and other internal finishes . |
| 3 | to examine the most tax efficient structure for the deal , as regards the capital sums and future income which will accrue to you , and also to examine the opportunities for tax saving prior to the disposal |
| 4 | The most tax efficient way of repaying a mortgage is the pension mortgage . |
| 5 | In considering the payment of income maintenance , regard should be had to any mortgage interest which has to be paid if the matrimonial home is retained and to the most tax advantageous method of payment for both husband and wife . |
| 6 | Much more controversially , it may also be a contempt to ‘ scandalise the court ’ and thereby undermine public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary . |
| 7 | Mills and Boon , however , rigorously deny any charge of producing ‘ formula fiction ’ ; their instructions to potential authors , as they insist , and as some critics have noted with surprise , add up to little more than an encouragement to ‘ freshness and originality of approach ’ . |
| 8 | Rational people will predict them and thereby annul any effect they might have on real variables . |
| 9 | By analogy with the genetic information raining down on the canal from my willow tree , we could say that the dust carries ‘ instructions ’ for how to dam streams and eventually make more dust . |
| 10 | They rarely mean real harm , and go too far only infrequently . |
| 11 | Manchester University 's Computing Centre will soon boast the largest single computational node in the UK when it replaces its VP1200 supercomputer with a VPX240/10 machine from Fujitsu Systems Business ( Europe ) : it is the first Fujitsu VPX machine to be sold in the UK since launch last year 's launch and features one scalar processor , one 2.5GFLOPS vector processor , 1Gb main memory , 1Gb of secondary memory ; it is four times faster than the five-year-old system it is replacing and will be used for computational fluid dynamics and engineering research ; delivery is planned for July ; no price was given . |
| 12 | Dun says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since launch last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations doing $150m a year and up . |
| 13 | Do whatever gives you most pleasure this weekend . |
| 14 | Too frequent reliance on segat to avoid one 's responsibilities would , of course , eventually bring social pressure to bear : gossip , scolding , shaming , and so on . |
| 15 | One of the most interesting effects of the new technology ( significantly called ‘ high ’ ) may be to modify the pure/applied distinction , and thereby bring higher education and industry naturally closer together . |
| 16 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 17 | And there 'll be little change this afternoon , although in Argyll and the Western Isles , it will become a little brighter , if not exactly sunny , |
| 18 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 19 | What I do recommend you do is er , you know , use these short answers in your , in your revision , and sort of , you know , revise on say interim district trade , and then just write a question in fifteen minutes , and you realize that you ca n't really write very much , and it 's good discipline , because once you 've made the mistake , you know , of writing , you know , two paragraphs on some aspect of it , you realize you have n't got any time to , to do anything else . |
| 20 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 21 | As subsequently printed , the purpose of aid programmes in Southeast Asia was ‘ to demonstrate that the local national governments are able to bring benefits to their own people and thereby build political support , especially among the rural population ’ , or in the words of the Country Report prepared for the director of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program : ‘ to ensure the existence of governments … which represent the legitimate nationalist aspirations of those Indo-Chinese people who do not desire to see communist-orientated governments in Indo-China ’ . |
| 22 | Thinly veiled portraits of actual people in fiction vastly outnumber this type of unlucky strike . |
| 23 | One suggestion is that males and females rarely encounter each other . |
| 24 | He was an incredibly fit old man , whose wife had died a year ago . |
| 25 | Pelham Manor , New York , another wealthy suburban community , had an opulent stone structure with a powerfully squat square tower for ticket lobby and waiting-room . |
| 26 | Over the longer period changes in population , income etc. shift this relationship in measurable ways . |
| 27 | An interesting point to note in real Spanish folk dance is that the boy and girl rarely touch each other . |
| 28 | The reason for such nonchalance is that the snakes seldom bite people and , even if they do , rarely inject much venom . |
| 29 | The two ministries together coordinate underwater exploration and the policing of excavations . |
| 30 | For that reason alone , the Communist party saw that it must either stop Mosley now or else perhaps lose all chance of a populist vote in its own support . |