Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb base] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know it 's pathetic , you know , I much rather have round ones . |
| 2 | Prog pop ( like prog rock before it ) is an embarrassed attempt to leave behind adolescence — that unsettled interim state so fruitfully prey to traumas , visionary states , loosemindedness , impossible aspirations . |
| 3 | The examples given so far relate to developments within a single national social order . |
| 4 | My talk , if you so wish to interpret it , is a reaction to the somewhat sterile presentation of the language which I so often see in textbooks and curriculum documents . |
| 5 | They had long ago come to terms with that sorrow . |
| 6 | Tony 's tragic death , that terrible ending of his young life , was something she had long ago come to terms with . |
| 7 | So is n't it good for us rather than quibbling , rather than criticizing , and recognizing that we 've all got different abilities and perhaps if you had n't got one of those abilities there , the , the body that it speaks about , you see every part plays a part does n't it on our physical body and so we are in accommodation , we all have a part to play , and that 's the way we , we grow you see and we mature and we become better , able , equipped to go out and tell others , gives us confidence as well if we know what we 're talking about , that way we can learn , so never quibble about assignments and arrangements , never criticize brothers and sisters in the congregation . |
| 8 | The exercises given below therefore concentrate on bits of phonetically transcribed English which involve problems when a phonemic representation is required . |
| 9 | Again , the provisions broadly only apply to acts in the UK and it is a defence to show that a person reasonably believed that his act or conduct would not create and impression that was false or misleading . |
| 10 | Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz . |
| 11 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 12 | Patent infections are common donkeys of all ages , but in horses generally only occur in foals and yearlings . |
| 13 | A further concern is that some journals do not transmit the referees ' comments to the authors ; this wastes the referees ' time and fails to appreciate that they want to improve published articles not just act as gatekeepers . |
| 14 | This has guaranteed not only resources but also access to national databases not always open to others . |
| 15 | In the forthright style that has helped to earn him his reputation , he said that politicians are sick people , that they have a profound characters fault , and that their main objective is to keep their jobs ( does the later at least not also apply to economists , one might wonder ? ) . |
| 16 | But why not simply pay in ingots ? |
| 17 | Heaven and Hell not only hold no terrors or promises for them — they no longer even exist as figures of speech . |
| 18 | This attitude reflects badly on the conference service industry and demonstrates that it has still not fully come to terms with the need for quality and a caring approach in its business . |
| 19 | If you feel a client is talking crudely , you hake not yet come to terms with your own feeling that there is something crude about sex . |
| 20 | ‘ I returned , and saw under the sun , that the race is not to the swift , nor the battle to the strong , neither yet bread to the wise , nor yet riches to men of understanding , not yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all ’ ( Ecclesiastes ) . |
| 21 | And if a sensitive soul can hear the album repeatedly and not occasionally take to tears , I 'd be very surprised . |
| 22 | ( Has he , too , noted in the informal engagement announcement photographs the New York Times has recently taken to running that the couples more often look like siblings than prospective husbands and wives ? |
| 23 | In such a close-knit community as Shetland ( it is still relatively closeknit despite claims to the contrary ) it is unlikely that viewpoints could be sequestered away . |
| 24 | If it is more , once again divide into sections each of less than 16,000 and save as A , B , C and so on . |
| 25 | From these profiles it will be established which , if any , indicators most clearly differentiate between groups at different income levels . |
| 26 | Rockhoppers nearly always nest in colonies up on the tops of cliffs , sometimes 30 metres above the sea , which , on the face of it , seems a daft place for a bird which can not fly ! |
| 27 | They nearly always hunt in couples , so one expects to find either no horns at all or two horns . |
| 28 | Ronald Bateman and James William Kelly , who both still serve as committeemen , are to receive the CIU 's long service award for 25 years work with the club . |
| 29 | Erm , er we talked to the departmental transportation departments er attended and it is I think fairly widely open to members of the county council so that , these issues can be pursued as and when they arise or choose to comes along . |
| 30 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |