Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While not denying the clinical value of the EEG as a non-invasive technique it is probably fair to conclude that electro-physiological research has so far not contributed anything new to our knowledge of cerebral asymmetry but rather has corroborated findings from other areas of investigation . |
| 2 | Single people or couples living alone were encouraged to join a cookery pool , saving fuel by pooling rations and take it in turns to cook meals for other people in the group . |
| 3 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 4 | It is not a difficult job ; it merely involves removing airbricks in one side of the house and inserting a pipe under the floor and a small fan unit on the outside . |
| 5 | The Guardian only needs to seek agreement from 75 per cent of those who vote , while the Abbey had to secure the vote of 20 per cent of all eligible investing members , with 75 per cent of those in favour and a majority vote in favour from eligible borrowers . |
| 6 | Yet he obviously loves taunting Romeo about the ‘ sickness ’ of love . |
| 7 | Paulson obviously has mixed feelings about selling 50 per cent of Arazi to Sheikh Mohammed , although he described their arrangement ‘ a very good partnership ’ . |
| 8 | At this level BIS has encouraged co-operation through its conferences before and after main ALA conferences . |
| 9 | These inner conflicts are in part due to the person having ‘ id-impulses ’ which he or she has learned to see as wrong , and so has internalized prohibitions against acting on them . |
| 10 | One only has to compare Scotland with England to see where the real problem lay . |
| 11 | He examined the problems of ‘ How Did We Get This Way — And Where Are We Going ? ’ , arguing that since the last war Britain especially has presented management with a host of entirely new problems . |
| 12 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 13 | HaL Computer Systems will sell NetLabs Inc 's NetLab/Manager software as an option on its Sparc machines when they arrive : HaL apparently intends to build applications on top of the basic network management tool . |
| 14 | If the user only wishes to produce text on the system and is prepared to restrict this to a few styles and sizes then such a device is perfectly adequate . |
| 15 | Scott 's appointment could be easily justified on the grounds of his qualifications alone , but the attempt by the Select Committee to make something of the competition results only serves to cast doubt on the reasons for the appointment . |
| 16 | It adds that the exclusion of certain part-time workers from employment protection rights , pensions and the contributory benefits system only serves to reinforce assumptions about women 's economic dependency . |
| 17 | Waving her around at this stage only serves to remind Conservatives of what they have lost , while it reminds the undecided 33 per cent of electors of what they most came to detest . |
| 18 | She also points to the danger of a new tendency to give attention to affluent active newly-retired people , which only serves to concentrate ageism on older , poorer people . |
| 19 | Coalition building not only attracts needed power to a project , it also tends to help guarantee success . |
| 20 | He generously agrees to go halves on you . |
| 21 | Kirton spent a year as an All Black selector when Hart was out of favour and now seems embroiled in a television commentary career which largely involves tearing strips from the referee and running a one-man coaching clinic at the same time . |
| 22 | DEC FINALLY AGREES TO MARKET MACs IN THE US |
| 23 | Further discussion thus has to focus attention on particular flows , and we now consider the two-dimensional wake to exemplify the procedures and the ideas that come from them . |
| 24 | The world today desperately needs to build communities of love and peace . |
| 25 | More recently , the ending of the Cold War and the introduction of measures of democratization in Russia , Eastern Europe and elsewhere has generated debate about the possible spread of liberal democratic forms of government ( for example Held , 1992 ) . |
| 26 | The Mercia area of the Trust already has expressed concern about the effect of any airport expansion on all its properties in the area . |
| 27 | However , these particular instances do not meet the general proposition that if the husband and wife have drifted apart , and the woman has made it known that she no longer wants to have sex with her husband , it is wrong that the husband who has sex with her without her consent is exempt from conviction for rape . |
| 28 | Hewlett-Packard comments that its current HP-UX 9.0.3 implementation already incorporates multithreading technology from Unix System V.3.2 , although that 's not a full multiprocessing version — like Unix System V.4 MP — that it would probably require . |
| 29 | HP says its current HP-UX 9.0.3 implementation already incorporates multithreading technology from Unix V.3.2 , although that 's not a full multiprocessing versions — like Unix SVR4 MP — that it would probably require . |
| 30 | Crosby , meanwhile plans to make changes against Swindon tonight . |