Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyday experience is generally highly predictable and so rarely offers such surprises . |
| 2 | First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law . |
| 3 | Whether TI eventually produces higher performance Tsunamis remains to be seen . |
| 4 | Thru enacts this strategy of ‘ wild jay-walking ’ between theories by side-stepping their systematicity and making them into stories . |
| 5 | It blatantly encourages young people to live on credit which is extremely undesirable , and brought about by their greed in getting people to buy their goods in every possible manner . |
| 6 | A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way . |
| 7 | Its domination resides in the fact that it keeps the economy going , without which the whole society would collapse , and in the fact that it thereby imposes certain restrictions on other practices . |
| 8 | Their place-names sometimes suggest ancient belief in something or other : thus ‘ Dunharrow ’ in Common Speech presumably represents Rohirric dún-harg , ‘ the dark sanctuary ’ , just as ‘ Halifirien ’ on the borders of Gondor must be hálig-fyrgen , ‘ the holy mountain ’ . |
| 9 | This framework presumably imposes interpretative limits . |
| 10 | In summary the Unit is the victim of its own success and badly needs increased working space and more staff to meet its steadily increasing workload . |
| 11 | The Cycling Council badly needs some income , and I suggest that we might be given a percentage of the revenue , say 20% , in addition to the initial £75 . |
| 12 | The Cannock Chase area badly needs these funds , not just in my constituency but in surrounding constituencies . |
| 13 | With 7,000 students spread across three campuses , King 's badly needs more space on its historic Strand site . |
| 14 | The firm badly needs this market share to buy time , so it can fully adapt to the new Windows world and carve out a place for itself in the growing groupware market . |
| 15 | Your Transport Policy Committee presumably has some thoughts on rail privatisation which are prevented from being published until the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has published its own evidence . |
| 16 | However , since the private person has chosen to deal in commercial goods , ( and presumably has some expertise in relation to the subject matter of the contract ) such exclusion is more likely to be reasonable than if consumer goods were the subject matter of the contract , and hence the transaction were a consumer transaction governed by s 6(2) . |
| 17 | As for the class of goods , where commercial goods are concerned the party acquiring them presumably has some expertise in relation to them which gives him the capability to assess their quality or to understand if he needs to call in an expert assessor , so that less protection should be required in this case . |
| 18 | A speechless ape presumably has some sort of feeling for the opposition " I " / " Other " , perhaps even for its expanded version " We " / " They " , but the still more grandiose " Natural " / " Supernatural " ( " Man " / " God " ) could only occur within a linguistic frame . |
| 19 | The merit of the book , however , does not so much lie in its attempt to break the " iron curtain " that traditionally separates linguistic and literary approaches to literature , but rather in its contribution to the development of a stylistics that successfully reconciles linguistic analysis with a consideration of the socio-cultural and ideological dimensions of the production and reception of literary texts . |
| 20 | Very rarely has such experience been shared amongst a wider group of community partners . |
| 21 | There are some 120 published clinical studies on procaine , yet rarely has pharmacological research been blessed with such endless bickering between opposing camps . |
| 22 | For example , a maker of consumer goods like cookies or cigarettes rarely has direct contact with a consumer . |
| 23 | No matter how interesting the music and the dance movements , if the passages are too long the dancer rarely has sufficient stamina to sustain the dance to its proper climax . |
| 24 | Vegetable juice is even less desirable , and the resulting plant print rarely has any relevance to the text Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave us a gentle reminder in Aurora Leigh : |
| 25 | The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value . |
| 26 | I do help if I can , but I also point out to them that the help is to members of the ( and I send them details and a membership application form — but this rarely has any effect ; I do n't even get an acknowledgment as a rule ) . |
| 27 | The Germans and the French consider it impossible to have a central bank in the EC without binding rules , sanctions and other instruments for imposing economic policy , since ‘ even an independent central bank can not ensure price stability alone , as monetary policy does not operate in a vacuum , but rather has close links with other fields ’ . |
| 28 | The reason the Russians have so many is that fresh plutonium slowly undergoes radioactive decay , making it unpredictable in warheads . |
| 29 | Yet beer — good beer — is a highly complex product and one that arguably needs greater skill to produce than wine . |
| 30 | There seems general agreement that the mind does not work like a camera , faithfully recording everything in front of its lens , for apart from the discrimination of sensations and the filtering out of some of them , the information that is passed on undergoes considerable re-organisation and change so that there is always a discrepancy between the sensory input and what is perceived . |