Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 2 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
| 3 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
| 4 | Now , if you make a cup very deep and turn the sides over , you eventually make a lensless pinhole camera . |
| 5 | Then vigorously rub the right hand into your left elbow saying that you are going to rub the coin away . |
| 6 | His feet wearily repeat the old pattern , dragging him round the dance floor in a last slow spin . |
| 7 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 8 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
| 9 | Further research is required if we are to understand better the process of early retirement in a variety of circumstances and thereby build a sounder basis for policy . |
| 10 | Since buyers and sellers rarely want the same paper , the banker in the middle usually dips into his bag of swaps and options to transform one side of the deal into something more conventional . |
| 11 | Glass bevels , placed throughout the composition , poignantly suggest the shattered debris from a synagogue and shop windows . |
| 12 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 13 | The door was flung wide , and inside lay a dark cave . |
| 14 | The walk is expected to last all day so bring a packed lunch . |
| 15 | The evidence he has collected shows that working people of the last century were able to hold an image of society from their own experience and so articulate a political consciousness . |
| 16 | Undoubtedly , the fact that both mothers and daughters are able to have babies and so enact a continuing cycle makes their dilemma of finding a harmonious balance difficult . |
| 17 | This will , of course , only introduce a new level of complexity . |
| 18 | The experiments just mentioned not only introduce a much-needed control procedure but they also extend the generality of the effect . |
| 19 | As Smith points out , ‘ Conditions of conduciveness merely make the hostile outburst possible . |
| 20 | That analysis is so well understood in North America that their discrimination statutes merely enact a general prohibition on employment discrimination on account of disability . |
| 21 | Again , self-reference , albeit of a slightly different character , is essential to the analyses of valid consent and of promising which are acts changing the normative situation because they are undertaken in the belief that they so change the normative situation . |
| 22 | Old phone books apparently make an ideal alternative to straw , and they 're far cheaper . |
| 23 | If these can not be readily appreciated by children — as is often the case with young children who are typically limited to understanding tasks which make immediate sense — then children will produce inappropriate responses and apparently lack the mental capacity in question . |
| 24 | Sometimes we so devalue a physical approach to the world that we begin to devalue action itself . |
| 25 | There are still many experts sceptical about just how much influence a volcanic explosion can have on the weather . |
| 26 | Spray apply caustic cleaner and very gently agitate the compacted soil with the edge of a wire brush tilted so that the wire bristles contact only the joint area and not the tile face . |
| 27 | I naturally commend the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr.Cormack ) on his choice of subject for debate . |
| 28 | I can not express to you the charm that hangs about a mountain like Ben Each as the mists swathe its rocky sides ; they rise , they fall , they whirl , they soar as on wings of light , they cast shadows , they give grand mystery , and anon reveal some hidden dell , some great bare precipice , or perhaps display a glowing patch of verdure . |
| 29 | It is also interesting to note that endorphins are released when acupuncture is practised and perhaps make a significant contribution to the therapeutic effects which may be achieved . |
| 30 | By chastising a horse , we only make a tense situation worse . |