Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suggest that working-class people make rather more of a ‘ thing ’ of the whole business than do middle-class people , irrespective of their religious beliefs . |
| 2 | Cars , cameras , motorbikes and hi-fis may be getting to the stage where only the keenest enthusiast can tell them apart , but tractors remain mercifully different from each other . |
| 3 | After the achievement of political independence this nationalist fervour does not necessarily abate , and may even increase ; not only because , in many cases , the new nations remain economically dependent within the capitalist world economy , but also because their own development is conceived as a national task , closely bound up with the policies of an efficient , interventionist state . |
| 4 | But because it is part of the school ethos ( for teachers and pupils alike ) that it is embarrassing to show that you have been hurt , people remain mostly unaware of the pain that these mundane disparagements cause . |
| 5 | If you are a non-customer , please take the form to the Midland branch most convenient for you . |
| 6 | The greatest designers can sway with the prevailing mood of the moment , but remain fundamentally true to their own spirit ; Issey Miyake continues to delight audiences at his beautiful shows by determining his own uniquely futuristic fashion logic . |
| 7 | There are many variations , but plan and elevations remain fundamentally unchanged in the great temples of the fifth century : of Zeus at Olympia ( plan fig. 120 ) and the Parthenon ( view fig. 129 ) . |
| 8 | As part of its work the EPRG is anxious to construct , and then make widely available to interested parties , an inventory of all case-control studies that are in progress across Europe and that are designed to investigate possible associations between particular conditions and prior exposure to medicinal products . |
| 9 | Though the markets remain nervously responsive to war news from the Gulf , they now seem to discount a serious threat to Saudi production . |
| 10 | Sit down all of you in the dining-room , and have your tea . |
| 11 | O God , give your grace to the United Nations Organisation in all its manifold work ; in its work for the children who suffer so much from the injustices of our society , in education and in health , in the relief of poverty and hunger , and in its work for peace . |
| 12 | Fish do not find worms that look like that and hooks lose so much of their penetrating power . |
| 13 | Starting this month , RISC Management spins out its benchmark supplement into a focused stand-alone publication called BENCHpress Quarterly available for $195 a year to new subscribers . |
| 14 | Now you know why you eat so many of 'em . |
| 15 | That is why the contests for the Labour Party 's leadership and deputy leadership sit so ill in the context of the continuing post-mortem — or biopsy , as Neil Kinnock insisted on calling it — after Labour 's fourth consecutive election defeat . |
| 16 | When partners leave the partnership they remain personally liable for all debts incurred during the period of their membership . |
| 17 | The provision of English language teaching is already a major source of revenue to Britain , from the language schools that yearly bring literally millions of foreign students to the country , to the British Council exports of English language and culture across the world and the institutional supports for such practices provided by publishing houses , printers and writers of textbooks . |
| 18 | Seaweed dangling from the metal struts like matted hair , wind so rough against his skin . |
| 19 | In the last 30 years , and long before the amalgamation in March of the white and black and brown rugby factions , the unions were gradually split and sub-divided until now they number perhaps 26. of these , 20 are rural , including Boland and Border , and have been weakened to a point where they are virtually powerless , impoverished , dying or dead . |
| 20 | It might say something about the Americans that they remain so obsessed with this repellent , perverted killer and his pathetic entourage . |
| 21 | Many counties remain so untouched by the commercial age that lost balls are still classified as a major item of expenditure . |
| 22 | But when permissive or instructional therapy is needed , the interesting question is why people remain so ignorant about their bodies and potential sexuality when there are so many relevant books on the market , when sex education is provided in schools and when many glossy magazines promote the virtue and necessity of orgasm . |
| 23 | ‘ We remain greatly concerned by the failure of the Iranian authorities to repudiate this incitement to murder and to repudiate the bounty , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 24 | But the ‘ and 's ’ and ‘ or 's ’ and the more and more rarely irritate , and are triumphant in the great set-pieces which mean so much to all three books — like that palimpsest of faces in Addis Ababa . |
| 25 | To abandon them at such a moment implies that they did not , after all , mean so much to the animal — they were not a ‘ safe haven ’ in quite the way they had pictured themselves . |
| 26 | ‘ I am having difficulty appreciating why the fate of these ghosts , who were unknown to you in life , mean so much to you , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Finally , can I thank , on your behalf , the sterling efforts of all heads of departments and staff at Trinity Road , and all my colleagues in our Council and Committees whose efforts mean so much to the work of the Association . |
| 28 | Shelley , you mean so much to me — come down to the pool , and let's talk things over quietly . |
| 29 | Most of it comes think so , I mean so much of it comes from the North American Indians that |
| 30 | This chapter will therefore look at status in the landscape , since this hierarchy and the differences in status are so evident and mean so much in terms of why the landscape looks like it does . |