Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To acknowledge any such standard would be , in effect , to accept a principle that might lead to a lesser religious or other liberty , if not to a loss of freedom altogether to advance many of one 's spiritual ends . |
| 2 | The Crusade successfully united all women to the right of the Christian Democrats , while the Front is unofficially known to be controlled by the ultra-right ARENA Party . |
| 3 | Zhao was allowed to retain his party membership and would face no further charges , but the decision effectively foreclosed any possibility of his early rehabilitation . |
| 4 | The Prince laughingly trod some capering steps about the bedroom . |
| 5 | Camp thereby negotiates some of the lived contradictions of subordination , simultaneously refashioning as a weapon of attack an oppressive identity inherited as subordination , and hollowing out dominant formations responsible for that identity in the first instance . |
| 6 | Thinly veiled portraits of actual people in fiction vastly outnumber this type of unlucky strike . |
| 7 | Thus while newspaper accounts and other sources ( including this one ) , often talk rather loosely about volcanic ‘ ashes ’ during an eruption , a vulcanologist properly restricts this term only to the smallest particles . |
| 8 | Choosing one category as a base effectively turns any polytomous variable into a series of dichotomous variables known as dummy variables . |
| 9 | Over the longer period changes in population , income etc. shift this relationship in measurable ways . |
| 10 | Pliny perhaps had this in mind when he wrote that art ceased in 296 BC . |
| 11 | Any story which carries the imputation of discreditable conduct by somebody will be actionable by a plaintiff who can show that at least some readers would recognise him as the person being criticised , or that the facts in the story necessarily imply such an allegation against him . |
| 12 | Thus segmentations of the speech wave necessarily exclude some information about the unit under consideration and include information about its neighbours . |
| 13 | ‘ We managed to keep a live feel to the record firstly by not using any click tracks ; we recorded drums and acoustic rhythm guitar together to start each song off . |
| 14 | Immuno-histochemical tests showed that animals treated with capsaicin apparently lost all the substance P from the ganglia ( cell clusters ) containing sensory nerve cells ; those that had received NGF alone had even more substance P than untreated control animals , and those that received both had fewer cell bodies containing substance P , but such cells as they had stained more strongly for substance P than those in controls . |
| 15 | Tolkien perhaps found such opinions in a work he knew well , King Alfred the Great 's personal translation of Boethius into Old English . |
| 16 | Th there , there is a , there is a problem erm in that the invitation from Aida in this case to er issue a statement in general conformity erm confers on , on this committee the opportunity only to withhold that statement if there are elements of plan which significantly fall outside for one reason or other the , the terms of the structure plan and the points that have been mentioned in the er in paragraphs two point four to two point nine in , in er your officer 's views er are not such that the er plan is er unable to be afforded that statement of general conformity . |
| 17 | Classification had always been based on the recognition of structural resemblances , and the advent of evolutionism merely transposed this enterprise into a search for real ( i.e. historical ) rather than purely formal relationships . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal held that as the main purpose of Mr Stark 's contract had merely been the regular and efficient distribution of newspapers and since there was no evidence he should personally engage in distribution , it followed that the contract was not a ‘ contract personally to execute any work or labour ’ and therefore Mrs Gunning was not employed under such a contract . |
| 19 | In some areas the amount of inversion of the Carboniferous basement apparently exceeds that of the post-Zechstein section which may be attributed to removal of significant amounts of late Carboniferous strata during late Hercynian times ; these areas are also associated with the principal gas discoveries in the basin . |
| 20 | ‘ The effect of looking a bit deeper made more difference than anyone thought , ’ summarises Peter Frey , a psychologist at North-Western University who has written the basic text in the field , Chess Skill In Man and Machine ( Springer-Verlag 1977 ) . |
| 21 | … very much and you get a fabulous Radio Subasio T-shirt so keep those calls coming out there this one is for Adriana in Gubbio it 's Celentano 's latest coming to you at fifteen before four this Thursday morning courtesy of your friend Tullio who says … |
| 22 | As already stated , the change only affects those joining new pension schemes set up after 13 March 1989 or new members joining existing schemes after 1 June 1989 . |
| 23 | Leaf excision alone has little effect on pin induction in tomato plants . |
| 24 | ‘ McIniff was blackguard enough to do that but you 'd think that at least he 'd be ashamed to tell it . ’ |
| 25 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 26 | There is an index to the schedules , but this has been criticized in connection with the inadequate size of its entry vocabulary , the number of entries in the index only exceeding those subjects listed in the schedules by about 25 per cent . |
| 27 | What I have to recognise by contrast is that even now James Joyce , born a hundred years ago , brings not unity but division , nor does this division merely reflect some such crude opposition as highbrow and lowbrow , or even informed and uninformed . |
| 28 | When teachers ask what librarians can offer in pupil.guidance , chartered librarians often retort that their own knowledge of children 's literature greatly exceeds that of the average teacher ( usually strikingly untutored in such matters ) , and when self-styled educational technologists wonder what a librarian can tell a student about a filmstrip , the retort in recent years has been prompt , and along the same lines . |
| 29 | Good did not overcome evil simply because we knew more — technological progress merely raised that struggle to a higher and potentially more devastating level . |
| 30 | If Mellor can learn from that experience sufficiently to bring some soundly-constructed strategy to the review of the BBC 's charter in 1996 , then Major will have succeeded in the introduction of some long-termism , at least some medium-termism , in two areas that badly need it . |