Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We would also like to record publicly our overwhelming sense of gratitude to all the hospital staff who did so much to save Jo 's life , skilfully repair the dreadful injuries and to effect a good measure of rehabilitation . |
| 2 | But they are much more akin to many modern skyscrapers : they rather symbolize the social ambitions of their makers — and the comparative difficulty of self-expression on an ample scale in the crowded streets of a medieval city . |
| 3 | Isolated , earning low wages , they mostly lose the statutory benefits which it has taken most of the century to establish — sick pay , paid holdiay , paid maternity leave , national insurance and redundancy notice and compensaiton . |
| 4 | To add to this gloomy picture of girls lagging behind boys at the top attainment levels in this country are the results of national mathematics competitions , where year after year boys overwhelmingly gain the top scores . |
| 5 | But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers . |
| 6 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 7 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
| 8 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
| 9 | Now , if you make a cup very deep and turn the sides over , you eventually make a lensless pinhole camera . |
| 10 | Some aspects of American Far Eastern policy were thus object lessons in how little influence the British might have over their own fate . |
| 11 | Then vigorously rub the right hand into your left elbow saying that you are going to rub the coin away . |
| 12 | His feet wearily repeat the old pattern , dragging him round the dance floor in a last slow spin . |
| 13 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 14 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
| 15 | Further research is required if we are to understand better the process of early retirement in a variety of circumstances and thereby build a sounder basis for policy . |
| 16 | Center Parcs have done their market research — they know that their target market want the healthy Nineties lifestyle and duly provide a huge sports hall . |
| 17 | Not for the normal reasons : that they 're failed creators ( they usually are n't ; they may be failed critics , but that 's another matter ) ; or that they 're by nature carping , jealous and vain ( they usually are n't ; if anything , they might better be accused of over-generosity , of upgrading the second-rate so that their own fine discriminations thereby appear the rarer ) . |
| 18 | Since buyers and sellers rarely want the same paper , the banker in the middle usually dips into his bag of swaps and options to transform one side of the deal into something more conventional . |
| 19 | I rather pity the young who live in London because they must be having a particularly difficult time . |
| 20 | Glass bevels , placed throughout the composition , poignantly suggest the shattered debris from a synagogue and shop windows . |
| 21 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
| 22 | Unless they did so , he warned , he would abandon the bipartisan sprit of the negotiations and publicly denounce them ; he also threatened to veto all spending bills and thereby trigger the automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts . |
| 23 | and nervously steer the wobbling steels |
| 24 | Beach lovers rarely fault the International as it backs directly , down a few steps , onto the sands and sea . |
| 25 | While barter-based natural economies can coexist with monetized market economies , the latter relentlessly marginalize the former . |
| 26 | A little really does go a long way , so apply sparingly , by dotting on minute amounts and rubbing in well — only re-apply every three hours or so . |
| 27 | Festive food should be fun as well as tasty , so pick a few items of specialist kitchen equipment and tableware to add the finishing touches to your yuletide table spread . |
| 28 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 29 | There we go ( Note that , in most cases , the three kinds of sentences only favour the three kinds of interpretation . ) |
| 30 | The door was flung wide , and inside lay a dark cave . |