Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needle moves to its usual place but does not stay there ; it slowly drops back to zero . |
| 2 | The answer is you do , providing it is n't wild and wet , but then little stands up to that . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 5 | Mr Binyon has thought ; he has plunged into the knowledge of the East and extended the borders of occidental knowledge , and yet his mind constantly harks back to some folly of nineteenth century Europe . |
| 6 | … and it does mean that I think there is a pressure perhaps grows out of that to make you articulate clearly why you are putting the course together in the way you are … which previously you could have got away with . |
| 7 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 8 | This naturally applies also to specific medical words , and when they are used , the nurse may find it necessary to correct inaccuracies and add explanations . |
| 9 | This measure was introduced in 1978 and protection only applies therefore from this date . |
| 10 | Mr Amess not only approves warmly of capital punishment , but has volunteered to ‘ pull the lever myself ’ . |
| 11 | Although use will be made of the concepts discussed above , the experiment reported below does not in any way test various theories of plural reference resolution . |
| 12 | Loans are intended to supplement finance obtained from other sources , and so the EIB only lends up to 40 per cent of the cost of fixed investments of a project with a minimum size of around £1 million . |
| 13 | Universal suffrage in Britain dates only from after the Great War and the right for non-property holders to participate in local elections only dates back to 1949 . |
| 14 | Here , there is no conferring , and Jack impulsively leaps forward with raised knife to kill it . |
| 15 | some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 16 | Some 96 per cent of the spent fuel which goes in comes out as reusable material . |
| 17 | Korn/Ferry perhaps appeals more to aggressive , fast-growth conglomerates than to old-fashioned , traditional companies . |
| 18 | no the English news only comes on at half past ten at night and then you 'll get what they wanted to hear , so you do n't have to listen to the World Service |
| 19 | This should be set so that it only comes out under considerable pressure . |
| 20 | The first thing to remember is that as you turn the boat away from the wind , you let out the mainsheet , the sail only works properly at one angle to the wind and so it 's essential to let out the mainsheet as you bear away . |
| 21 | ‘ This Index only works well in some natural science fields and on American soil , and only in ‘ normal science ’ areas . |
| 22 | However , the subject of commission rarely crops up with major artists . |
| 23 | Lynda Moss agrees : ‘ 1,1,1-trichloroethane rarely crops up in published syntheses — a heck of a lot of syntheses use methylene chloride [ dichloromethane ] however ’ . |
| 24 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’ |
| 25 | The potential meaning of to with the infinitive can therefore be diagrammed in the following manner : The potential meaning of to as described above fits in with that of the bare infinitive in the following very simple way : the latter evokes that which defines the end-point of the movement denoted by to . |
| 26 | It just goes in like that . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the LIMB database generally receives up to ten copies of each item , so it is possible to send out copies for retention to requesting librarians , and a loan system is regarded as administratively cumbersome . |
| 28 | A field where the sign no longer refers back to real objects or persons but instead constructs what is to be perceived within the system of signification . |
| 29 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |
| 30 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |