Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stone slabs are known as Nagacoils and are mostly placed there by childless wives who vow to install a ‘ snake-stone ’ if they are blessed with offspring ; probably the greatest desire of the average female Indian mentality . |
| 2 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 3 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 4 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 5 | They are therefore viewed as costs that can not be justifiably carried forward to future periods because they do not represent future benefits or the future benefits are so uncertain as to defy measurement . |
| 6 | This may be one reason why fertility recovered somewhat after its initial wartime decline , to reach a peak in 1944 ( 781,478 births ) , unmatched since 1923 , only to fall again in late 1944 and 1945 as mass armies were once again able to operate overseas ( see Registrar-General 1954 ) . |
| 7 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 8 | There are many who will never forget that sad time but now the East Lindsey coastline has a happy atmosphere ; sometimes throbbing with the joy of summer seaside thrills but more constantly pulsating gently in natural tranquility , . |
| 9 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 10 | It is very thin and often has deep infoldings and outpouchings so binding together with neighbouring cells . |
| 11 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 12 | In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’ |
| 13 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 14 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 15 | Every year each region 's allocation was merely rolled forward with small additions to the previous year 's spending and extra to meet the current costs of new hospital premises . |
| 16 | Work is only carried out during normal working hours , Monday to Friday . |
| 17 | This was not to imply that planning is an activity which is only carried out by senior management . |
| 18 | The Dodge mounted the kerb , headlights suddenly stabbing out on full beam . |
| 19 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 20 | only picked out in sudden revelations . |
| 21 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 22 | The firebombing of an Istanbul department store on Dec. 25 , in which 11 people died , was apparently carried out by Kurdish students in protest at the deaths the previous day of at least eight Kurds attending funerals in the south-east . |
| 23 | There 's a great deal of double counting that takes place , it might be that some honourable members in this house actually appear upon two registers , one in London and one within the area in which they reside , normally within their constituency and many people are merely carried over from past registers , without any serious canvassing taking place to find out whether they are the people to be on the registers or whether someone else should be put in their place . |
| 24 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 25 | In particular , prices for drawings from the Low Countries were stagnant ( and thus decreased in real terms ) until 1986 , they soared in 1987 but not enough to catch up with French and Italian . |
| 26 | So steer clear of other kites being flown on single lines . |
| 27 | She let the dress fall , pushing him away gently to slip out of tiny white satin briefs . |
| 28 | You wo n't see all this fancy formatting on your document ; it 's all carried out by coded instructions . |
| 29 | The 1980s ended with the tabloids ' confidence waning , and with the Sun 's nudes moving to page five , perhaps to slip away for good . |
| 30 | Why are engineering , medicine and agriculture not all grouped together as applied sciences ? |