Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much later , in the eighteenth century , the Spanish artist Goya shows a caged owl being swooped upon by two free-flying birds , while a small caged bird sits nervously in front of it . |
| 2 | Like the peasants who hedge their bets , Mozambique sits uneasily between war and peace . |
| 3 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 4 | It has the usual complement of flowerbeds , vegetable patches , close-trimmed lawn , shrubs , trees and well-swept paths , and differs little in appearance from neighbouring gardens . |
| 5 | ‘ One major limitation of the contemporary contingency approach lies in the lack of conclusive evidence to demonstrate that matching organisational designs to prevailing contingencies contributes importantly to performance . ' |
| 6 | Gently cooked , fat-hen , or mutton-tops , tastes rather like spinach , according to Miss Laura Ponsonby , education officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew . |
| 7 | His voice was impressive , the accent almost a drawl , ‘ My own view would be that the notion of sacrilege belongs rather to superstition than religion in our age . ’ |
| 8 | Opinion differs widely on value of these methods . |
| 9 | A group of artists whose work differs widely in style but is united in the interest in landscape the portrait are at Durand-Dessert until 28 April . |
| 10 | It differs widely from marriage as seen in earlier periods of social development or in some other Western countries . |
| 11 | In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica . |
| 12 | Miranda Richardson plays effectively against type as his cold-eyed colleague in arms in a film that retains its hard-edged sense of danger to the end . |
| 13 | ‘ But nobody plays badly on purpose and with a very hard spell coming up , we just have to dig in and hope we can turn things round . ’ |
| 14 | For example , he has a waking and sleeping pattern that follows closely the one regarded as normal — sleeps most at night , feeds at four regular intervals during the day even though he is so young . |
| 15 | However , productivity differs less from country to country for non-traded goods than for tradables . |
| 16 | The climate differs less from north to south and distances are shorter . |
| 17 | A point of greater relevance to the UK is that it also differs greatly from trading and investment blocs under which a country 's trade and investment flows to countries within the bloc are free but there are restrictions between the bloc as a whole and the rest of the world . |
| 18 | Even with the modern partnership , no very satisfactory solution to this problem has been found , and the most one can say is that the partners have an equitable interest , often described as a lien , which floats over the partnership assets throughout the duration of the firm , although it crystallises only on dissolution . |
| 19 | Both , to begin , were hostile to the growing prospect of a corporate state where power belongs less to parliament or cabinet than to organised interests such as unions , multinationals , federations of employers , state monopolies and established institutions like professional bodies . |
| 20 | First one child sidles up to the teacher with some trinket to show in order to allow the warm , cheerful voice of teacher questioning and encouraging to wash over the beginning of their school day ; then another , more venturesome , rushes into the teacher 's arms , with breathless news to convey ; and finally a third arrives preoccupied with the task in hand and refers inadvertently to teacher as ‘ mum ’ . |
| 21 | In this country , the Economic and Social Research Council frequently awards research grants only on condition that data collected will be deposited in the Council 's archive together with a full description of the material and any known deficiencies . |
| 22 | For Ohmann , style belongs only to level ( B ) , whereas for Halliday style can be located in ( A ) , ( B ) , and ( C ) . |
| 23 | It is often the case , especially in religious matters , that wherever controversial premises are stubbornly adhered to , and crystal-clear reasoning and all human intelligence cries aloud in protest but is ruthlessly suppressed and ignored , then an endless supply of written matter is assured for evermore . |
| 24 | The general manager of its NT business unit Paul Gifford was named to the post of vice president , systems architecture responsible for bringing NT , the hitherto poor relation , into the mainstream and figuring out how it plays together with Unix . |
| 25 | The SPF system refers only to protection from UVB rays , but this year a star rating system has been introduced which also categorizes sun products according to their UVA protection . |
| 26 | ( The phrase ‘ suitable applicants ’ refers only to ability and motivation . ) |
| 27 | For example , G above refers only to government consumption expenditure rather than all government expenditure , which would also include spending on fixed assets ; this item is in fact included under gross domestic fixed capital formation . |
| 28 | It refers only to university graduates , whom some employers may assume ( partly on the basis of A level grades ) to be more ‘ able ’ than polytechnic or college ones , and for whom therefore the ‘ screening for ability ’ function of a degree for general graduate employment may be relatively more important ( Gordon 1983 ) . |
| 29 | A referential symbol , it might be argued , refers only in virtue of what it means , i.e. it necessarily carries a descriptive content . |
| 30 | Indeed , it can almost be read as inviting the supposition that industrial democracy , in that prescription , differs only in degree from current practices of consultation ; is to that extent already customary ; and is therefore unobjectionable and , as a ‘ democratic imperative ’ , inevitable . |