Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past year , for instance , doctoral candidates have successfully completed theses on the acquisition of English as a foreign language by speakers of German , the teaching of advanced writing skills in English for specific purposes , and the stylistics of narrative fiction . |
| 2 | Yet others were situated in , or later moved to , places which eventually became towns with a full range of central place functions . |
| 3 | Bourgeois musical experience was largely privatized and domesticated ; working-class musical experience — formerly centred around collectively shared localities ( streets , pubs ) — shifted to framed public spaces which eventually became constituents of a national and international musical commodity market . |
| 4 | The similarities between such a scheme of reclamation and discipline and those widely mooted proposals of the 1980s to reclaim the youth through compulsory job-training or ‘ community service ’ should not pass unnoticed . |
| 5 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 6 | This approach effectively placed services for the black communities on the margin of mainstream service delivery and turned collective issues concerned with race into individual case work ( Ben-Tovim et al . |
| 7 | The proposals , based on the premise that " cosmopolitan " laws put French people at a disadvantage , effectively placed immigrants in a separate category of those who could not be joined by their families and should not be eligible for certain benefits , while French people would take priority for jobs and housing . |
| 8 | Thus , a proportion of the land , usually near the villages and suitable for agriculture , is retained providing , with proper management , it can go on producing crops at a reasonable level . |
| 9 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 10 | They also effectively isolate Pakistanis from the wider British community or , as Anwar puts it , the immigrant community is encapsulated . |
| 11 | SIS will also be covering Kelso , Newbury and greyhound racing from Bristol so the need to give punters the opportunity to additionally sample delights from the orient hardly seems necessary . |
| 12 | Equally , there are dangers in suggesting that all Western economic ills are explained by militant labour or autocratic managers , thereby downplaying differences in the quality and quantity of capital equipment used . |
| 13 | Burbling innocuously around the moorings , buoys , isolated pilings and crazily speeding windsurfers with the occasional whiff of avgas mixed with salt spray and hot oil , we towered over all the other waterway users — except the super-tankers bound for foul Fawley . |
| 14 | It 's still a superb test of skill and character , combining a clutch of relentlessly demanding holes with a scenic splendour that rivals all but a few . |
| 15 | Many leading designers have since designed fittings for the 2D . |
| 16 | What Havel wittily shows is the kind of Catch-22 situation faced by a dissident in a despotism : whether to cling fiercely to your own moral integrity ( thereby landing others in the shit ) or whether to conform and perpetuate a corrupt system . |
| 17 | Therefore , where the vendor and purchaser are both wholly owned subsidiaries of a third company and the vendor sells assets to the purchaser at an under value , it is suggested that to the extent the value conferred on the purchaser comes out of the vendor 's capital as opposed to distributable profits , then this is treated as an unlawful return of capital by the vendor to the third party holding company . |
| 18 | One of the real problems was that there were too many badly built , badly designed buildings in the wrong location which the tenants do n't want . ’ |
| 19 | The single market is , of course , designed to lower and eventually eliminate barriers to the movement of goods , services and people . |
| 20 | Sometimes they had driven north and gone on walking tours in the Lake District or the Scottish Highlands . |
| 21 | The basic principle of these vast Swedish furnishing stores is to provide self-assembly furniture in self-service flat packs , thereby keeping prices to the absolute minimum . |
| 22 | ‘ Tem bastards go on queerbashin' tirades at every opportunity . |
| 23 | Working in Grendon must be one of the most difficulkt places for an officer becausec we 're telling them they 're not dependant on their uniform but their personality and ability to relate to people . |
| 24 | While the region has traditionally written off 5 per cent of rates or poll tax bad debts — this year it could be £15 million — the finance director , Tony Taylor , promised yesterday that the council would vigorously pursue non-payers for the rest of the cash . |
| 25 | Most studies of latent inhibition use procedures in which there are many widely spaced presentations of the target stimulus and there is a long interval ( frequently of 24 h ) between the last pre-exposure trial and the first trial of conditioning . |
| 26 | Dr. Howarth ; a tall fair man , almost as tall as Dalgliesh himself , with widely spaced eyes of a remarkably deep blue and the lashes so long that they might have looked effeminate on any face less arrogantly male . |
| 27 | Here was the same long-boned face , the high cheekbones tapering to a pointed chin , the same widely spaced eyes with the droop of the left eyelid , the same long-fingered pale hands , the same steady but slightly ironic gaze . |
| 28 | That riots and local socialism were both found in the most acutely stressed parts of the country is no accident . |
| 29 | Baird rarely adds eggs to the purée as the scallop meat tends to be firm enough without them to absorb a fair amount of cream . |
| 30 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |