Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb base] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two cultures rarely understand each other , especially when one is waxing dominant . |
| 2 | Almost any sizable stretch of water , inland or coastal , may attract an Osprey , but spring birds rarely make prolonged stays . |
| 3 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 4 | Liquids much above 30 per cent tend to be unstable , unless alcohol or urea is included , which adds to the expense so liquid products rarely exceed this level . |
| 5 | It is not insignificant that private economic institutions rarely take Western political institutions as their model for decision-making . |
| 6 | While such inducements presumably have some positive effect , later discussion will note that management control over their terms casts doubt on the extent to which they secure an identity of interests with shareholders , and the danger that they create pressures for short-term increases in accounting profits or merely permit management to extract an increased proportion of company revenues . |
| 7 | Chapter 11 is different from British ‘ receivership ’ , where the courts mostly sack existing management and put a finance — but , some would say , not a business — expert in charge . |
| 8 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 9 | ‘ The purchaser hereby covenants with the vendor by way of indemnity only that the purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will henceforth and at all times duly pay all rents becoming due under the lease and observe and perform all covenants agreements and conditions therein contained on the part of the tenant or persons deriving title under it to be observed and performed and also will at all times keep the vendor its successors in title and assigns effectively indemnified against all proceedings costs claims expenses and liabilities in respect thereof . |
| 10 | Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes , whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision . |
| 11 | Some capital projects obviously need current resources to run them . |
| 12 | It is already evident that new roads only generate new traffic , and the environmental impact is an absolute disaster . |
| 13 | Exact equivalents between UK qualifications and overseas qualifications can rarely be given , but the notes below give some idea of the recognition granted to some qualifications . |
| 14 | for a variety of reasons only work certain days . |
| 15 | The products alone cost many millions , to which the cost of professionals ' time should be added . |
| 16 | Fairies greatly value human babies as a means of introducing new blood to their dwindling race , so have been known to steal them and leave a useless object behind . |
| 17 | Discriminatory policies merely encourage established foreigners to employ marginally corrupt locals , thus adding a further disincentive to new entrants by conspiring to maintain the unsatisfactory status quo . |
| 18 | But modern bourgeois suburbia is colourful , tacky , vulgar , and these groups only mimic this different kind of banality . |
| 19 | Certain types of groups only have one way of viewing problems as the right way to look at problems you don if any of you have been in the R C P , Revolutionary Communist Party , you might find that 's a fairly similar sort of thing there 's a party line and dimensions of what constitutes it . |
| 20 | The proposals sensibly resist any temptation to over-egg an already rich international pudding by staging more one-day internationals than are presently staged in England . |
| 21 | The Government and our times rightly attach great importance to conquering inflation , but it is not the only aim of a successful economy . |
| 22 | In an earlier example it was shown that a large proportion of requests only require some attributes to be present or absent . |
| 23 | Well I had the the twenty one and thirteen in the two groups so subtract those two and have twice the amount of X I thought I would have . |
| 24 | Would n't today 's permanent secretaries rather resent one of their own returning to tell them how to overturn the habits of a lifetime ? |
| 25 | In practice , of course , a large number of these relationships rarely involve more than a few people . |
| 26 | Schools rarely have explicit aims and objectives which are translated into individual and specific job descriptions , targets and performance indicators . |
| 27 | These words effectively convey critical approval . |
| 28 | The later authors duly record 834/1431 as the date of Fahreddin Acemi 's becoming Mufti , but they are forced to do so by the logic of their position and seem not to depend on any statement in the early sources . |
| 29 | If the Government seek to deny this facility to a Council , or if other parties successfully oppose such a democratic test of ratepayers ' views being held , then DUP councillors will vote , as in the past , against a Republican Sunday . |
| 30 | However , in practice , processed pictures and processed words mostly support each other ; use of desktop publishing ( dtp ) software can make achieving this support easier than it is otherwise . |