Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in those areas where golden eagles fed extensively on carrion sheep which had been dipped in dieldrin , the proportion of pairs successfully rearing young fell from 72 per cent to 29 per cent during the late 1950s . |
| 2 | Two cultures rarely understand each other , especially when one is waxing dominant . |
| 3 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | After an initial burst of enthusiasm the male slowly loses sexual ability and interest over the years . |
| 5 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 6 | Liquids much above 30 per cent tend to be unstable , unless alcohol or urea is included , which adds to the expense so liquid products rarely exceed this level . |
| 7 | The LTTE effectively took total control of the north when the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) pulled out in March 1990 . |
| 8 | Zhao was allowed to retain his party membership and would face no further charges , but the decision effectively foreclosed any possibility of his early rehabilitation . |
| 9 | Widely acclaimed as the focal point of most of the social and cultural events in the town , the Kings Head successfully combines luxurious comfort with culinary excellence whether you are looking for morning coffee , afternoon tea , lunch or dinner . |
| 10 | Thinly veiled portraits of actual people in fiction vastly outnumber this type of unlucky strike . |
| 11 | The history of unceasing conflict and division within provides ample evidence of the failure to give that guidance . |
| 12 | Hesitation slowly became determined silence ; the line of her mouth tightened . |
| 13 | Chapter 11 is different from British ‘ receivership ’ , where the courts mostly sack existing management and put a finance — but , some would say , not a business — expert in charge . |
| 14 | She 'd a hundred times rather change last night 's husband on a daily basis , be reviled as a witch in the parliament of women , she 'd like to have dead babies in succession — she winced at this , ‘ Please , no ’ — but pressed on rather than be that nothing , that unbeing , that sump of ribaldry and pity and contempt , the woman-who-had-never-had-a man , the zitella , the old maid . |
| 15 | Thus while newspaper accounts and other sources ( including this one ) , often talk rather loosely about volcanic ‘ ashes ’ during an eruption , a vulcanologist properly restricts this term only to the smallest particles . |
| 16 | Dun says it has done $5m of business on SmartStream since launch last summer , has some 30 customers , with five orders over $300,000 : the software is aimed at organisations doing $150m a year and up . |
| 17 | Brooke-Rose attempts rather to use old material in new ways . |
| 18 | Over the longer period changes in population , income etc. shift this relationship in measurable ways . |
| 19 | The public grew to hate the licensors , and Parliament eventually uncovered widespread corruption in their operation — fraud , extortion and intimidation had made the whole system a scandal . |
| 20 | In the cinema , another growth medium inter-war , Hollywood money so dominated British film production that the government introduced protectionist policies . |
| 21 | Thus segmentations of the speech wave necessarily exclude some information about the unit under consideration and include information about its neighbours . |
| 22 | Leave it in and twist small sections of hair together to achieve better curl formation . |
| 23 | We already know that the building of new roads only generates more traffic , and that congestion rapidly returns to its former levels . |
| 24 | It is already evident that new roads only generate new traffic , and the environmental impact is an absolute disaster . |
| 25 | ‘ We managed to keep a live feel to the record firstly by not using any click tracks ; we recorded drums and acoustic rhythm guitar together to start each song off . |
| 26 | The UFC research money only represents one leg of the dual support system . |
| 27 | Exact equivalents between UK qualifications and overseas qualifications can rarely be given , but the notes below give some idea of the recognition granted to some qualifications . |
| 28 | The emissions only contained one part per million of hydrochloric acid . ’ |
| 29 | Th there , there is a , there is a problem erm in that the invitation from Aida in this case to er issue a statement in general conformity erm confers on , on this committee the opportunity only to withhold that statement if there are elements of plan which significantly fall outside for one reason or other the , the terms of the structure plan and the points that have been mentioned in the er in paragraphs two point four to two point nine in , in er your officer 's views er are not such that the er plan is er unable to be afforded that statement of general conformity . |
| 30 | Craig Kendall , 12 , who suffers from a rare bone disease , grew his hair long to stop spiteful playground taunts . |