Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other acts sought to prohibit as far as possible corrupt practices and limited the amount of money a candidate could spend on election expenses . |
| 2 | The report shows that employers tend to have only extremely vague notions as to what examinations in particular subjects actually involve . |
| 3 | Doe sit ache much now ? |
| 4 | Thus even the earliest and most modest collection of phrase structure rules would have been pregnant with new output ; and as the rules became entrenched so too would innovative effort and diagnostic insight become more relaxed and automatic , as words appeared newly combined in well-understood syntactic contexts . |
| 5 | Moreover , lower income groups tend to spend more propor-tionally on their housing than higher income groups ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 5 ) . |
| 6 | Tacit collusion is a form of non-co-operative equilibrium : it results from the rational , independent pursuit of self-interest , which courts tend to find not nearly as reprehensible , to say the least , as conspiratorial conduct . |
| 7 | Er , but in the long run we 're on the lookout to continue to build both organically and by acquisition where appropriate er , on , on the main sectors . |
| 8 | Negative attitudes tend to spread more easily amongst individuals than from group to group because members of a group can argue more effectively amongst themselves than can an individual . |
| 9 | Administration of bFGF given did not significantly affect the lesion area or the gastric blood flow in rats treated with aspirin . |
| 10 | This is because capital flows tend to respond more rapidly to changes in relative interest rates than trade flows tend to respond to changes in relative prices . |
| 11 | It is undoubtedly necessary to identify the reasons why Nizan failed to become as fully integrated within the structure of the party as Politzer , Cogniot or Aragon , for example . |
| 12 | It just gave me an excuse to come charging up here . ’ |
| 13 | Competition , therefore , is something the retailer has to consider very carefully . |
| 14 | LCCIEB has worked very hard in its purpose of increasing the availability and take-up of modern foreign languages both within the UK and abroad , and views the development in NVQs as a natural extension of this work . |
| 15 | This bodily preparation needs to occur so quickly that there is no time for conscious thought , the caveman does not have time to talk himself into this state of readiness . |
| 16 | ( Adorno 's ingenious but unpersuasive attempt to rescue Beethoven from these contradictory circumstances of reproduction relies on a post facto construction of the ‘ real ’ Beethoven : ‘ unity has become clear only today and largely through the efforts of later production in music ’ ( Adorno 1978b : 149 ) . ) |
| 17 | Resentment about the link has continued ever since ; it is the main cause of the present rebellion in Bougainville . |
| 18 | It seems the weakness has arisen not only because of the excess capacity built during the Central Electricity Generating Board 's dying years , but also because the competition for business between the regional distribution companies , the generators , the Scottish companies , Nuclear Electric and the French is so strong , and also because of recession . |
| 19 | How the Mini Master will be regarded by Britain 's Civil Aviation Authority remains to be seen , but the CAA has indicated so far that it will expect pilots flying the aircraft to be holders of a multi engine rating , which currently costs around £1,200 to obtain on a conventional twin aircraft . |
| 20 | Removal has to happen very soon after death — afterwards the body is returned to the relatives for burial or cremation . |
| 21 | The European parliament needs to consult more widely . |
| 22 | In many industrialised market economies collective bargaining has become so firmly established that it is sometimes regarded as being virtually synonymous with the prevailing system of industrial relations . |
| 23 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 24 | Since the early 1950s , however , urban decentralization has taken on completely new dimensions . |
| 25 | Inequality of power and advantage has been an extremely common , if not universal , feature of human societies , even if the degree of inequality has varied very greatly . |
| 26 | You rub your right hand on your left elbow and then move the hand to her ear to see if the coin has come back yet . |
| 27 | The Manchester City striker has scored just once so far this season — so he has a major incentive to score against Arsenal in this televised tussle . |
| 28 | While her hands were busy rooting the ingredients out of their packs , Jezrael tried to work out just how she did feel about the Magyar , but that was a niggling discomfort blunted by the stone weight of her worry about Chesarynth — and about Antoine . |
| 29 | Demographic change has affected most obviously the position of elderly people . |
| 30 | Maria has to pretend not only to Glass that she no longer loves Leonard , but to Leonard too . |