Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The illicit drug in commonest use is cannabis and the majority of low or moderate users of this drug rarely experience adverse effects on their health although they may , of course , find themselves at odds with the law . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two cultures rarely understand each other , especially when one is waxing dominant . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | After an initial burst of enthusiasm the male slowly loses sexual ability and interest over the years . |
| 6 | Almost any sizable stretch of water , inland or coastal , may attract an Osprey , but spring birds rarely make prolonged stays . |
| 7 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The LTTE effectively took total control of the north when the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) pulled out in March 1990 . |
| 10 | Third , how can a speaker or writer successfully communicate certain opinions and attitudes without explicitly putting them into words ? |
| 11 | The Crusade successfully united all women to the right of the Christian Democrats , while the Front is unofficially known to be controlled by the ultra-right ARENA Party . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These later evolved into tribes , and these in turn swelled in size and complexity eventually to become fully-fledged states . |
| 16 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Thinly veiled portraits of actual people in fiction vastly outnumber this type of unlucky strike . |
| 19 | The history of unceasing conflict and division within provides ample evidence of the failure to give that guidance . |
| 20 | Hesitation slowly became determined silence ; the line of her mouth tightened . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The purchaser hereby covenants with the vendor by way of indemnity only that the purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will henceforth and at all times duly pay all rents becoming due under the lease and observe and perform all covenants agreements and conditions therein contained on the part of the tenant or persons deriving title under it to be observed and performed and also will at all times keep the vendor its successors in title and assigns effectively indemnified against all proceedings costs claims expenses and liabilities in respect thereof . |
| 26 | This framework presumably imposes interpretative limits . |
| 27 | Brooke-Rose attempts rather to use old material in new ways . |
| 28 | Over the longer period changes in population , income etc. shift this relationship in measurable ways . |
| 29 | Some work of the former kind altogether avoids social considerations , and passes out of our present context . |
| 30 | 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 . |