Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not lose interest and let the end of a sentence fade away as you scan your notes for the next remark . |
| 2 | In the match of the tournament , Drake took the first set 6–3 only to see his advantage melt away as Alger powered his way back into the reckoning with a blistering 6–1 win in the second . |
| 3 | In the optimality theory , this is determined by the reservation price rule sell all if the price is above the reservation price , sell nothing otherwise . |
| 4 | Anyway , at half time , Geoff 's standing right at the back of the London Road — and at the back there you can see down to the tea place underneath because some bugger 's smashed out some of the asbestos bit along the back . |
| 5 | Luce heard the engine start and the boat roar away as she obeyed Rosa 's respectful injunction to , ‘ Please come this way . ’ |
| 6 | The flyer may have had three of its four photographs taken in pedestrian zones , but walking and cycling get less than five per cent of the space in the book . |
| 7 | Liverpool City Council 's leisure services department believe more than 30,000 people turned out for a thrilling 20-minute extravaganza . |
| 8 | But , perhaps unfortunately , the causes and consequences of the dilemma go deeper than this suggestion implies . |
| 9 | Some theories of rhythm go further than this , and point to the fact that some feet are stronger than others , producing strong-weak patterns in larger pieces of speech above the level of the foot . |
| 10 | It must be preferable that the original action proceed rather than being convoluted into a negligence action . |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ said Ben Hogan , ‘ things tried in practice fall apart when tension is put on … ’ |
| 12 | Now , Matroc like other firms in the Morgan Group acknowledge that customers and technicians as a rule follow more than one path in solving a problem . |
| 13 | Crimes of violence comprise less than 4 per cent of recorded crime , and while crimes of violence have risen rapidly in numbers in the post-war period there have been changes in the pattern of such offences . |
| 14 | Now what they 're saying is that , what they said is activist action learn best when they get the opportunity to experience new sort of problems , situations , opportunities when they 're doing something quite new when they 're sort of involved in very much you know here and now activities when they 're sort of like business games , exercises , role plays , team tasks that they can sort of get you know really get involved with themselves then there 's lots of action and they 're quite short and sharp , so can move on to something else . |
| 15 | It remains true that all of the major parameters of Course regulations and management remain today as they were established by David Mobbs ; all that has changed is the values given to certain parts of the equation . |
| 16 | I keep getting this feeling it 's already there , like in quantum physics , where matter is mostly space , and space , even the vacuum , seethes with creation and annihilation all the time , and nothing is absolute , and two particles at opposite ends of the universe react together as soon as one 's interfered with ; all that stuff . |
| 17 | By contrast , in a typical US company , both designing and cutting happen only after the second-generation prototypes are complete . |
| 18 | Finally , the expansion of the social services may have contributed slightly to the unprofitability of capital but the roots of the decline in profitability lie elsewhere whether one adopts one of the various Keynesian or Marxist perspectives . |
| 19 | In essence , this makes the mouse pointer disappear disconcertingly when the pointer is moved on the pad . |
| 20 | In the light of revisionist work , then , the revolutionary intelligentsia emerge neither as superhuman heroes nor as demons . |
| 21 | The moment his body covered hers she felt a great tide of revulsion and panic surge upwards until it threatened to choke her , and she threshed her head from side to side in blind , unreasoning panic , thrusting him away with frantic hands . |
| 22 | In wholly man-made processes , the ‘ arts ’ run through into the significant areas of dress , ornament , furnishing , decoration , gardening , where many of the same criteria of beauty , harmony and proportion apply yet where the full definition as ‘ art ’ is usually withheld , within the modern specialization . |
| 23 | Privatisation and deregulation become harder as the candidates become trickier and less obvious , but they still need doing — and explaining . |
| 24 | Most of the dogs that come up for rehoming do so because of a change in domestic circumstances rather than through any temperament problems . |
| 25 | They support bleacher , when he suggests that the dementing do best when living in as normal an environment as possible , and that segregation can cause stigma and poorly individualized care . |
| 26 | In general , however , the authors of the article point out that this type of method may not be applicable to other caves as many paintings of this type contain little if any datable pigment . |
| 27 | PRS estimate that 85% of their membership receive less than £1000 a year from them ! |
| 28 | Well-laid plans are all very well , but things beyond the control of economists or politicians can make one country 's reform happen faster than another 's . |
| 29 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 30 | This is concerned with aesthetic aspects and it is not sufficient that the article simply looks pretty or pleasing but the eye-appeal of the article should be such that persons acquiring or using the article do so because of the appearance of articles made to the design . |