Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 • Algae magnets can be used to hold down lettuce leaves for herbivorous fish .
2 So Schleiermacher offers to religious language a new foundation and point of reference , one with inbuilt defences against the attacks of the Enlightenment .
3 A leopardess heavy with young is at an obvious disadvantage when it comes to hunting , so nature compensates for this by making her pregnancy a short one of 90–105 days .
4 So capitalism develops in this combined and uneven manner , and crises are not merely periods of ‘ no growth ’ ; on the contrary :
5 Focus groups said they would pay more taxes if the cost of the Federal machine was cut , and so Clinton announces with great fanfares a 25 per cent cut in White House staff .
6 So Paul calls upon all people everywhere to be reconciled to God ( 2 Cor.
7 Thus play begins with all types of player A imitating types with larger values of z and acquiring a temporary reputation as large z types .
8 recognises that an original lessee may have a defence if the assignee not performing has in some way been absolved from performance .
9 It is possible to write a general solution , in terms of the applied torque , the relevant longitudinal shear modulus G , the twist per unit length , and a form factor F , thus F depends on both the shape of the specimen , and on the symmetry it possesses ; for isotropic or transversely isotropic materials ( such as hexagonal symmetry ) , some examples of the value of F are :
10 not tea leaves as such , but there is
11 Not cuff links like these .
12 Thus power comes with political longevity , and once appointed to a coveted committee , a Senator or Representative will be loathe to accept , let alone seek , reallocation to another with the more junior status that will ensue , unless the move is clearly likely to be politically beneficial in the medium-if not the short-term .
13 If , for example , an occupier deliberately plants weeds in large quantities , he would surely be liable under the rule for damage caused by their escape , for it is not a natural use of one 's land to cultivate weeds in bulk .
14 Nevertheless , local newspaper reports say Peking is concerned that this could further fuel calls for greater democracy in Hong Kong , where the British government now seems more committed to increasing the pace of political reform .
15 Sun Microsystems Inc has a new desktop SBus Expansion Subsystem that provides three more SBus slots for several of the its workstations and servers , and enables use of single and double width boards ; it also accommodates up to two 424Mb disk drives and will be available from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunExpress at $2,500 in July .
16 Usually SBS occurs in modern buildings , but may be associated with older ones , especially following renovation or refurbishment .
17 He made it clear that the Employment Secretary , Michael Howard , was not prepared to see Community action in the field of industrial relations and that Community legislation should not push up labour costs in such a way as to reduce the ability of business to compete in world markets .
18 SLR produce a 25×12 ft cover with balloon wheels and galvanised gutters : they can also make up ground covers to any size and will happily send samples on request .
19 ‘ Are you so afraid of being wrong that you 're prepared to put up warning notices for those involved ? ’
20 Although we could not determine the sensitivity of thyroglobulin , the specificity of about 100% agrees with previous results .
21 In Denmark , private investors have been successfully encouraged to build their own small wind turbines and now wind accounts for one per cent of electricity consumed there .
22 If the relocation package appears very favourable , the company may find itself paying out relocation costs for more staff than it had budgeted for .
23 These mounds are not really lava flows at all ; they are the lava domes ( sometimes also called tholoids ) that were mentioned earlier in connection with the eruption of nuees ardentes and the destruction of St Pierre .
24 Cut out crowded or crossing branches from the bush centre , and cut back side shoots to two buds from their base .
25 To cover their tracks , Guppy and Marsh carried out stock swaps between Inca and another company in Switzerland .
26 Hon. Members who are shouting ’ Hear , hear ’ indicate the support that the No Turning Back group commands in this debate and in the Conservative party .
27 Now education has of that thirty nine million the Education Department benefited by about eighteen million , and we took , I think it was erm four million out yesterday , we will be back to a net gain of fourteen million on education and social services have benefited since eighty five by about to the tune of nine million and or eight point six million , and we took about four hundred thousand out of that yesterday .
28 I have always been struck by the role of particular cit.es in certain works which have conveyed a very exact sense of historical location , e.g. Manchester appears in this way in accounts as diverse as those of De Toqueville and Engels , and Spring 's enormously popular novels of the 1930s .
29 Too often now death comes to one alone and unprepared and the news of it is broken to others , perhaps at night , by an impersonal voice on the telephone .
30 Now Miguel belongs to two groups : Wrack ‘ n ’ Ruin , and Marka Laika , a large band playing native instruments .
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