Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While such inducements presumably have some positive effect , later discussion will note that management control over their terms casts doubt on the extent to which they secure an identity of interests with shareholders , and the danger that they create pressures for short-term increases in accounting profits or merely permit management to extract an increased proportion of company revenues . |
| 2 | The Prince laughingly trod some capering steps about the bedroom . |
| 3 | Choosing one category as a base effectively turns any polytomous variable into a series of dichotomous variables known as dummy variables . |
| 4 | In the next 50 matches Marinello only scored another three goals , he was dropped by Arsenal and one by one his new friends in the press and the pop business deserted him . |
| 5 | The products alone cost many millions , to which the cost of professionals ' time should be added . |
| 6 | It is consequently difficult to describe in a brief space , and the following account attempts only to indicate some basic features of government finance between 1471 and about 1534 . |
| 7 | Lynn Stewart , the teacher and software ‘ expert ’ , and Toni Michael , the computer writer , have got their heads and talents together to write this small ( yes are n't computer books getting bigger and bigger these days ) booklet for parents . |
| 8 | But modern bourgeois suburbia is colourful , tacky , vulgar , and these groups only mimic this different kind of banality . |
| 9 | The brief list of writing-in-role activities below indicates some further avenues you might want to explore ; many are suitable for children who have not yet learnt to read and write , providing that , as a teacher , you wish to encourage emergent writing . |
| 10 | What I have to recognise by contrast is that even now James Joyce , born a hundred years ago , brings not unity but division , nor does this division merely reflect some such crude opposition as highbrow and lowbrow , or even informed and uninformed . |
| 11 | If Mellor can learn from that experience sufficiently to bring some soundly-constructed strategy to the review of the BBC 's charter in 1996 , then Major will have succeeded in the introduction of some long-termism , at least some medium-termism , in two areas that badly need it . |
| 12 | Well I had the the twenty one and thirteen in the two groups so subtract those two and have twice the amount of X I thought I would have . |
| 13 | It was made clear , furthermore , that the Society did not regard the houses of businessmen or the ‘ newly rich ’ as ‘ distinguished ’ , and in my opinion this piece of out-dated thinking crucially undermined any serious authority the Society may have achieved to arbitrate on standards in our profession . |
| 14 | These two variables together explain some 45 per cent of the variance , suggesting that practical commonsense is more important than academic achievement in avoiding slippage . |
| 15 | ‘ Walking is the progression of steps so taken that unbroken contact with the ground is maintained at each step . |
| 16 | The deal apparently safeguarded some 6,000 jobs at the Texas plant of General Dynamics , the manufacturer of the F-16 [ see this page for Chinese reaction to US decision ] . |
| 17 | We now had to grapple with problems of ethics , with questions of morality and of personal philosophy , as we tried to draw a simple police code of practice together to frame those new deviancies created in the 1960s by the Acts of Parliament relating to drug use . |
| 18 | Although Cohn , Kidder and Mendelsohn all used some historical sources , their explanations of the deficiencies of South Asian courts were mainly inspired by fieldwork . |
| 19 | Chichester Harbour alone has some 1,298 hectares of mudflats , 164 hectares of sand , 611 hectares of Spartina marsh , and 42 hectares of saltmarsh . |
| 20 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 21 | DAVID Rocastle 's first league goal for over 13 months finally banished any lingering relegation fears for Leeds . |
| 22 | When such Stakhanovite chastity over a period of months finally coaxed some forlorn gesture of affection from the girl , he told her he wanted to get to know her better . |
| 23 | While psychical research thus attracted many eminent members of the scientific community , there were others who like Faraday and W. B. Carpenter were repelled by it . |
| 24 | The present flora , vegetation , and landscape of the Outer Hebrides thus pose several interesting and challenging questions . |
| 25 | It is an excellent rule not to destroy any living organism without good cause , and this applies particularly to a potential human being . |
| 26 | The interesting exception comes in the lead up to the 1979 election , when people were very harsh about the past period ( during a Labour administration ) but hopeful for the future ( which was to be under Conservative administration ) ; however , gloomy expectations about the future soon followed that 1979 election . |
| 27 | Picasso worked from a photograph he had taken of his friend and dealer who recorded that Picasso nevertheless demanded some twenty sittings . |
| 28 | Covering the bottom of the pool and the tops of the planting baskets with a layer of well washed pea gravel usually prevents this recurring . |
| 29 | I could n't help asking him if the waitresses in the Cabinet Office canteen still wear those terrible green overalls . ’ |
| 30 | This term always had this broader sense until , in the mid-nineteenth century , it began to have a capital M and a personified sense restricted to the episcopate , or more often just the papacy , as holders of teaching authority ( see Congar , 1976 ; Hill , 1988 , pp. 75–88 ) . |