Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rivers bear birth on slows of quicksand |
| 2 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 3 | Eventually supergrains of matter coalesced until the rocky fragments became large enough to attract more materials with gravity accreting at a faster and faster rate until they became full-sized planets . |
| 4 | Be that as it may , they gained access and proceeded to make an inventory of the goods there , mostly supplies of cloth , particularly linings . |
| 5 | She wholly goes on th'other side |
| 6 | Recent studies of language acquisition reveal that children are very attentive , and actively process evidence in ways perhaps not fully appreciated at the time when Chomsky was championing a theory of innate linguistic universals that depended heavily on an alleged gap between the scanty data available to the child and the rich system that he eventually masters in response thereto . |
| 7 | And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool , dark attic , which the writer nervously visits from time to time ; and yes , oh dear , while he 's been hard at work downstairs , up in the attic there are puckering skins , warning spots , a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes . |
| 8 | But clear declines in infant mortality in Britain and in Belgium only become apparent some time after the beginning of the fertility decline , and in France mortality and fertility declines begin at about the same time . |
| 9 | The bandicoots and the wombats are both diggers , excavating long burrows in search of their food . |
| 10 | This basically refers to success in spreading genes to later populations ; even if this means damage to an individual organism 's success . |
| 11 | However , ta'kwakomena not only refers to responsibility , but to personal autonomy in general . |
| 12 | In Peters v. Prince of Wales Theatre ( Birmingham ) Ltd . , |
| 13 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 14 | It is also believed that the no-OSF/1 decision , made in the midst of the recent flurry of reorganisations that have left DEC somewhat muddled , was made — perhaps unilaterally — by Stone whose heart apparently belongs to Alpha and that its reversal is something of an internally staged palace revolt . |
| 15 | According to Lord Deedes , and her husband John who now only plays off 6-handicap , she continues to do the dishes with Fairy liquid and is only mildly interested that tabloid writers are concerned about the injured wrist of Nick Faldo , which threatens to dictate sports pages throughout 1991 . |
| 16 | Since it is a non-democracy , dislike of the incumbent swiftly turns into rejection of the state itself . |
| 17 | Neglect yourself and self-doubt begins to creep in and that swiftly turns to depression . |
| 18 | It is precisely because of this view that we discover the highest purpose of PATTERN PRACTICE : TO REDUCE TO HABIT WHAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO HABIT IN THE NEW LANGUAGE , so that the mind and personality may be freed to dwell in their proper realm , that is on the meaning of the communication rather than the mechanics of grammar . |
| 19 | Today 's Law Lords judgement should keep Bridget O'Brien in her house , it will also mean that in future , a wife or partner only agrees to mortgage their home as security for a loan after being fully informed of the possible consequences . |
| 20 | er , obviously freelances from home mend |
| 21 | Especially if only goes in advertising section . |
| 22 | The peasant economy provides a reserve of cheap labour for capitalism and so contributes to capital accumulation . |
| 23 | There was general unemployment in the country which in turn affected the attendance of audiences so offers of work were dwindling . |
| 24 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 25 | Before the Report was published teachers were prey to the wildest fantasies about its contents — we would insist on rote-learning , daily exercises in grammar , no more creative writing . |
| 26 | Where Hornblower 's cough is designed to give him time to avoid embarrassment or to get out of a tight corner , Septimus puts on his spectacles , which in fact he only needs for reading , when he needs time to think of a way out of a difficulty or the chance to seem more confident than he really is . |
| 27 | By this time retirement schemes were not merely rewards for work and service . |
| 28 | It is clear that an element of contrast is intended , with a meaning something like " in writing Othello , Shakespeare becomes an exception , and so stands in contrast to other writers ' . |
| 29 | The greatest improvement of all has of course been the removal of the old climate of repression and fear . |
| 30 | So smothers in blood the burning |