Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether TI eventually produces higher performance Tsunamis remains to be seen . |
| 2 | A little goes that way and then a very small amount goes that way . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Cycling Council badly needs some income , and I suggest that we might be given a percentage of the revenue , say 20% , in addition to the initial £75 . |
| 6 | With 7,000 students spread across three campuses , King 's badly needs more space on its historic Strand site . |
| 7 | The firm badly needs this market share to buy time , so it can fully adapt to the new Windows world and carve out a place for itself in the growing groupware market . |
| 8 | However , since the private person has chosen to deal in commercial goods , ( and presumably has some expertise in relation to the subject matter of the contract ) such exclusion is more likely to be reasonable than if consumer goods were the subject matter of the contract , and hence the transaction were a consumer transaction governed by s 6(2) . |
| 9 | As for the class of goods , where commercial goods are concerned the party acquiring them presumably has some expertise in relation to them which gives him the capability to assess their quality or to understand if he needs to call in an expert assessor , so that less protection should be required in this case . |
| 10 | A speechless ape presumably has some sort of feeling for the opposition " I " / " Other " , perhaps even for its expanded version " We " / " They " , but the still more grandiose " Natural " / " Supernatural " ( " Man " / " God " ) could only occur within a linguistic frame . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Very rarely has such experience been shared amongst a wider group of community partners . |
| 13 | There are some 120 published clinical studies on procaine , yet rarely has pharmacological research been blessed with such endless bickering between opposing camps . |
| 14 | For example , a maker of consumer goods like cookies or cigarettes rarely has direct contact with a consumer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Vegetable juice is even less desirable , and the resulting plant print rarely has any relevance to the text Elizabeth Barrett Browning gave us a gentle reminder in Aurora Leigh : |
| 17 | The writing on other categories of contemporary rugs may be of interest , but rarely has any bearing on their quality or value . |
| 18 | I do help if I can , but I also point out to them that the help is to members of the ( and I send them details and a membership application form — but this rarely has any effect ; I do n't even get an acknowledgment as a rule ) . |
| 19 | The reason the Russians have so many is that fresh plutonium slowly undergoes radioactive decay , making it unpredictable in warheads . |
| 20 | Yet beer — good beer — is a highly complex product and one that arguably needs greater skill to produce than wine . |
| 21 | Kubrick can posit only a mystical promise of future ( individual ) development because he fundamentally has little faith in human nature or society , unlike Clarke ( most sci-fi writers seem to have a deep-down streak of optimism , even when as downbeat as Philip K Dick or as ironic as Kurt Vonnegut ) . |
| 22 | The party leadership presumably wants working class unity in the North . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As social life becomes increasingly organised at a global level , the sphere of employment perhaps offers least prospect for the assertion of autonomy and personal identity . |
| 26 | They were not always fair in their criticism : few today would agree with the New Statesman reviewer who wrote of The Lady Vanishes that ‘ the English should leave amorous wisecracking to the nation which invented and alone understands that art . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , the widely-used local building stone from Rubislaw Quarry is located in the Aberdeen granite , which has a lower uranium content than the other granites and so emits less radon . |
| 30 | The engine only produces thirty-two horse power , which I thought might be a problem in performance terms but , for this unique aircraft , it does not prove to be so . |