Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susie , 41 , has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years and knows from first-hand experience the difficulty in finding facilities geared up for those who actually gain most from regular exercise . |
| 2 | It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor . |
| 3 | Most of the time we communicate verbally to each other , and we expect our horses to do the same . |
| 4 | Liquid mixtures which deviate widely from ideal behaviour can not be separated by fractional distillation . |
| 5 | The persona of ‘ the Watcher ’ , which dominates his best writing , was already being formed : his way forward lay somewhere between social openness and egotistical restlessness . |
| 6 | If you suffer badly from these symptoms , go and see your doctor who should be able to help . |
| 7 | The Chancellor has abolished car sales tax altogether from 13 November 1992 , although this will have to be paid for by higher motoring taxes after 1992/93 . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly , therefore , most marketing efforts concentrate predominantly on satisfying people 's wants . |
| 9 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers . |
| 10 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers |
| 11 | Performers such as Richard Cocciante , Sandra , Renaud and Telephone mean little to British audiences , but in their own countries — Italy , Germany and France — they are stars , selling enormous quantities of records . |
| 12 | Eat slowly in convivial surroundings and , above all , enjoy your food . |
| 13 | Part-time workers will claim about a third of the projected increases , while young workers gain only about one quarter of the jobs . |
| 14 | Further , being at or near the top , these persons are those most strongly identified with the goals of the organization … they believe in the , organization , they want to attain its goals , they profit personally from such goal attainment . |
| 15 | Stephanie had in other years enjoyed this believed fairy tale : this year her own heaviness , fear perhaps of real birth , prevented her . |
| 16 | If a fundamental disagreement on matters of principle were to occur between the TAC and either the Financial Reporting Committee or the Auditing Committee , then the TAC has the right to challenge the draft Institute response at a meeting where the chairmen of all the Institute 's technical committees sit together with certain coopted volunteers . |
| 17 | You doant eat enough in those foreign parts , surely . |
| 18 | But I am not too keen on performances which concentrate entirely on rhetorical expression , and thereby lose both the singing quality , and the logic of the ‘ long line ’ . |
| 19 | There were crags up there he 'd heard , real crags , but they were empty now and host only to thriving colonies of brilliant green algae . |
| 20 | From this a deduction has to be made for knife sharpening and shields , about 4d a week … the women suffer greatly from chronic asthma … and by the acids with which the Colonial skins are cleaned . |
| 21 | I mean obviously for thirty |
| 22 | I do intend to er to attend inaugural meetings with each of the C P O s er with a view to looking I mean obviously at some stages you said to me that I would probably have to attend at short notice |
| 23 | But the texts lay together without much complaint , and , with the exception of a swerve into showbusiness Camelot at its conclusion , the evening intrigued . |
| 24 | We sit nicely from 5.30 to 8.30 then do our bit — ‘ The Cocktail Party ’ — which goes down royally . |
| 25 | This included rescue work south-east of the walled area and the longer-term operations in Normangate Field north of the River Nene , most of which remain only in interim published form . |
| 26 | Are some pupils absent only on particular days of the week ? |
| 27 | Layer together with whipped cream , strawberry jam and sliced fresh strawberries . |
| 28 | A few checks will soon show which tags ( if any ) connect together at each position of the switch . |
| 29 | But the opportunists suffer terribly under these conditions . |
| 30 | Bring gently to simmering point . |