Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paternalistic Tillers knew they would be at risk so William was taken on to carry out these arrangements . |
| 2 | Finance ministers Theo Waigel of Germany and Michel Sapin of France said after talks in Bonn that close co-operation between their two countries had successfully fended off speculative attacks on the franc . |
| 3 | The patient 's condition might change only slowly , as he can go on recovering over several years . |
| 4 | It comes with prostration , after several days and is most often found in patients of poor vitality , rather broken down weak constitutions who are subject to catarrhal illnesses ; most often needed in the elderly and in young infants . |
| 5 | Social elitism , it is frequently asserted , effectively squeezes out working-class interests . |
| 6 | Leaving Tarby and Brucie to their jovial banter , I eventually sought out some celebrities . |
| 7 | If you do so , you will not only build up more savings for your retirement but you also enjoy full tax relief on these contributions . |
| 8 | And can we entirely rule out topless by-laws , or the topless watchdog committee ( with the function of monitoring the behavioural effects of toplessness ) ? |
| 9 | Rather than pandering to these fading fans ( and perhaps building up false expectations ) , the good Dr David Marsh has opted for the cattle-prod technique beloved of third division no-hopers . |
| 10 | Neither have much influence over those countries most concerned with getting what they can from the colder world of sauve qui peut . |
| 11 | The group are also computer buffs on a mission to not only push out musical frontiers but combine the whole thing into a total multi-media package . |
| 12 | In attracting the fashionable trade the industry was gaining friends who were socially and politically powerful and it was also nicely building up box-office takings for , whilst the better sort of customers attended less often than the workers , they paid considerably more when they did come . |
| 13 | Colour analyst/hairdresser Mrs Myra Addison and photographer Mrs Ann Simmons together make up Beautiful Images , a venture set up in Darlington 15 months ago : and they came out tops with stunning portraits in competitions organised by the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Master Photographers ' Association . |
| 14 | Coastal cetaceans not only pick up chlorinated hydrocarbons , but also accumulate other industrial pollutants such as heavy metals . |
| 15 | ‘ However shallow injection is best suited to getting rid of dirty water because the material has to be liquid enough to flow down narrow tubes . ’ |
| 16 | Wandering around the cavernous warehouse that contains the Neighbours sets in Nunawading , Melbourne , she fondly points out various props which have all played a part in shaping the history of Ramsay Street . |
| 17 | Notice that the conditions on the metric components and derivatives only make up nine equations , whereas there are ten degrees of freedom . |
| 18 | Because of that , I have merely pointed out incontrovertible facts , and left them to draw the inevitable conclusions . ’ |
| 19 | Lauda only picked up four points from the two races . |
| 20 | Thus , as Statement E argues , under certain conditions white workers or residents may get together to freeze out black immigrants because their presence is felt to depress wages or house prices , or to threaten allocation policies which have hitherto made certain jobs or housing the preserve of the indigenous population . |
| 21 | Hull , if liked , before using by gently twisting off green stalks — they should come out easily . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I ai n't educated enough to work out Chinese puzzles . ’ |
| 23 | Many people felt that the advantages of being disabled not only cancelled out any disadvantages there might be but actually outweighed them . |
| 24 | Only send in three tracks at the most ( naturally your best ) . |
| 25 | It was not enough to patch up existing gaps in the criminal law , the commission said . |
| 26 | Damian Flint was obviously picking up chairman-of-the-board points at a rate that defied imagination . |
| 27 | No effort has been made to enhance the room , unless you count three small prints randomly hung on separate walls , Une Baigneuse by Seurat , a Degas of a woman drying her hair and a Bonnard of another woman in a bath . |
| 28 | It is not necessary to go to the lengths of the British Airways new Four Corners shops , where the travel element can hardly be distinguished through an Ali Baba 's cave of irrelevant merchandise , but only to set up efficient systems run by people who know what they 're talking about and who can make time to understand what their travellers want , like Trailfinders with their honest bucket-shop approach , or the STA chain with its expertise in student travel . |
| 29 | However , railways only made up 3 metres of every kilometre squared of territory as opposed to 200m/1km 2 in Britain . |
| 30 | At first the simple machines available could only detect down a few inches , and — amongst other operating difficulties — encounters with tufts of grass caused them to constantly give off false signals . |