Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There are some 120 published clinical studies on procaine , yet rarely has pharmacological research been blessed with such endless bickering between opposing camps . |
| 5 | For example , a maker of consumer goods like cookies or cigarettes rarely has direct contact with a consumer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The reason the Russians have so many is that fresh plutonium slowly undergoes radioactive decay , making it unpredictable in warheads . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The party leadership presumably wants working class unity in the North . |
| 10 | Smectite and illite may form preferentially near the weathering front only to be eventually altered to kaolinite , and perhaps gibbsite , as gradual lowering of the weathering front and erosion at the top of the profile effectively causes individual clay mineral particles to move up through the profile . |
| 11 | In humid tropical environments the leaching of metal cations from silicate minerals is controlled by the supply of acids ; this not only involves carbonic acid , although this is the most pervasive , but also sulphuric acid and , more significantly , a range of organic acids . |
| 12 | The promise of privatised experience in such a crucial area as travel not only erodes public transport , but also feeds into the individualist selfishness of consumerism . |
| 13 | Vaginal penetration by the penis which , for the victim , may be less offensive than certain other forms of attack , alone constitutes sexual intercourse which is required to be proved for the crime of rape . |
| 14 | More commonly , however , the agent for the owner or head charterer is a specialized ship 's agent dedicated to service only specified owners or head charterers , who not only books chartered space but also provides port services for the chartered vessel . |
| 15 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 16 | The boundary between curriculum enhancement and the third TTT purpose , professional development , is not clear-cut : curriculum enhancement necessarily involves professional development but TTT of this kind acquires the latter label when its purposes are quite explicitly directed at improving teacher competence . |
| 17 | He said : Any contract by which a person engages to give his exclusive services to another for a period necessarily involves extensive restriction during that period of the common law right to exercise any lawful activity he chooses in such manner as he thinks best . |
| 18 | She puts it in , and you ask her all questions about , she tells you it about it , and it has to be , and it only drinks orange squash , cos that 's wh what only Marie only drinks . |
| 19 | Marie only drinks orange squash . |
| 20 | She goes , it only drinks orange squash . |
| 21 | Tracks make for much easier travelling in thick jungle , and the soft soil greatly aids silent movement . |
| 22 | The Sir Eric Rideal Trust annually offers financial assistance to promising academic research workers , including research students , in the general field of colloid and surface science to attend conferences and to visit relevant research institutions . |
| 23 | It is possible to allow the child to move the existing words about the screen by means of a light pen , cursor control or joystick , but requiring him or her to type them in encourages correct spelling and concentration . |
| 24 | He not only transforms sad friend , but maintains my reputation for being a resourceful problem solver . |
| 25 | The Keynesian concludes , therefore , that an increase in the money supply would not have a marked effect on economic activity since : ( a ) the money supply only influences economic activity indirectly via interest rates , and the latter may not be significantly affected anyway because all parts of the financial market bear the burden of adjustment ; and ( b ) investment expenditures may not be very sensitive to changes in interest rates . |
| 26 | Developing awareness of individual need within the family is the objective , and failure occurs when the counsellor so upsets certain family members , particularly the more powerful , that he or she can no longer have any impact on the family dynamic . |
| 27 | have n't just to literally lie back there and the man says what happens , when it happens , and they 're to do as they 're told sort of thing because that obviously develops sexual abuse , women being raped , and attitudes that lead towards these things . |
| 28 | People can come to expect too much of someone who suddenly has great success . |
| 29 | On an even broader front the use of an integrated package on computer such as Wagons West from Tressell Publications not only develops empathetic understanding of the dilemmas facing early American pioneers but allows cross-curricular links with geography , religious education and English . |
| 30 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |