Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap . |
| 2 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 3 | Because the national curriculum can not be properly taught without new textbooks , we will earmark funds for class and library books . |
| 4 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 5 | However , sensitivity to water movements is most developed in underwater vertebrates . |
| 6 | The ornaments recovered from Neolithic cemeteries in the Rhine and Danube basins show that the shells most favoured for personal adornment were those of the mussel Spondylus gaederopus from which were fashioned necklaces , pendants and bracelets . |
| 7 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 8 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 9 | However , apart from references to this by the local residents , an internal memorandum from the borough engineer dated 26 January 1983 expressly refers to 24-hour operation . |
| 10 | Most LEAs reported that they had a curriculum policy or were developing one ; they consulted widely including with governing bodies ; they now recognised the importance of ‘ breadth ’ and ‘ balance ’ , and the need for relevance of the school curriculum to the world outside . |
| 11 | A bathroom was perhaps the item most prized by working class housewives after World War I , and there is ample evidence of wives planning moves up the housing hierarchy until one was acquired . |
| 12 | Drawing is rarely taught in primary schools . |
| 13 | But James 's great houses are rarely inhabited by ancestral families : Lord Mark is an exception , and Lord Warburton offers to move from Lockleigh if Isabel ( however mistakenly ) argues damp from its moat ; in any event , his family 's hold on the house is so frail that his sisters seem no more than faded chintz figures among the faded chintz of their drawing-room . |
| 14 | But this common-carrier principle has produced little such trade because negotiations were soon bogged down in technical committees full of engineers from the very monopolies that stood most to lose from cross-border competition . |
| 15 | Above this zone the moisture content decreases upward to a point where the continuous film of moisture eventually separates into discrete droplets . |
| 16 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 17 | Even psychoanalysis , the field most criticized by other areas of psychology for its methodological irregularities , claims scientific credibility from its set rules of data collection and interpretation , and its large body of clinical material . |
| 18 | All were prescribed as painkillers , with both Zomax and Opren widely prescribed for arthritic patients . |
| 19 | The technology was invented in the early 1920s by Anton Flettner , a German naval engineer , and has since fallen into undeserved oblivion . |
| 20 | The industrial relations literature has long noted that high levels of membership are ‘ predominantly sustained by informal group pressures from workmates ’ ( Brown and Wadhwani , 1990 , p. 14 ) . |
| 21 | However , government austerity policies and plans to reform the previously restricted economy by privatizing state monopolies and encouraging the private sector and international investment were bitterly criticized by organized labour , disaffected FLN traditionalists and opposition parties [ ibid . ] . |
| 22 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 23 | Performance measurement in the private sector is almost wholly limited to financial measures , under the tacit assumption that competitive markets are the best judge of the relative value of the goods and services provided . |
| 24 | First , the settlement house policy of ‘ neighbourliness ’ was trenchantly criticized by young radicals such as George Lansbury and C. F. G. Masterman who saw such movements either as laboratories for ambitious young men or as having lost their initial enthusiasm . |
| 25 | The ideology of racial nationalism was nowhere coherently formulated in fascist literature in the inter-war period . |
| 26 | Tau-Taus , together with textiles and carved panels , are amongst the Toraja 's artistic products most coveted by ethnographic collectors . |
| 27 | Snow may also lie later in block screes ( which also tend to be located below north-facing slopes because they were mostly formed by freeze-thaw action ) . |
| 28 | There is nothing more depressing than a collection of so-called first editions and rare items displaying faded spines , mull bursting through cracked hinges , scarred leather inadequately treated with greasy polish , mending tape of various hues round the spine , head and tail bands hanging forlornly and , perhaps worst of all , a badly lettered brown paper cover holding the whole thing together . |
| 29 | Reporters in Vilnius noted meanwhile that the Lithuanian population remained calm and apparently unperturbed by what were widely regarded as Soviet provocations : a pro-independence rally on April 7 organized by Sajudis drew a crowd of up to 300,000 people . |
| 30 | As a result , the waste is in danger of continuing to be stored in what are widely regarded as inadequate facilities . |