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 | 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 | Almost any sizable stretch of water , inland or coastal , may attract an Osprey , but spring birds rarely make prolonged stays . |
| 6 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 7 | The LTTE effectively took total control of the north when the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) pulled out in March 1990 . |
| 8 | Third , how can a speaker or writer successfully communicate certain opinions and attitudes without explicitly putting them into words ? |
| 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 | These later evolved into tribes , and these in turn swelled in size and complexity eventually to become fully-fledged states . |
| 11 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | The history of unceasing conflict and division within provides ample evidence of the failure to give that guidance . |
| 14 | Hesitation slowly became determined silence ; the line of her mouth tightened . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This framework presumably imposes interpretative limits . |
| 17 | Brooke-Rose attempts rather to use old material in new ways . |
| 18 | Some work of the former kind altogether avoids social considerations , and passes out of our present context . |
| 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 | Concern about skin cancer and the pain caused by overexposure to the sun are reasons enough to take sensible precautions if sunbathing . |
| 21 | It could be argued that one reason why the cities have lost so many jobs and contain so many unemployed is that they are over-represented by sectors of the economy that have declined nationally — the cities merely reflecting national trends . |
| 22 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 23 | Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes , whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision . |
| 24 | Some capital projects obviously need current resources to run them . |
| 25 | Hounslow , the holders , Havant and East Grinstead all gained clear-cut victories to qualify for away ties against other First Division sides in the eighth finals , and an England player scored for each of them . |
| 26 | In the cinema , another growth medium inter-war , Hollywood money so dominated British film production that the government introduced protectionist policies . |
| 27 | If x , y , z and n all represent whole numbers , it appears that the equation is an impossible one for any value of n greater than 2 . |
| 28 | It is already evident that new roads only generate new traffic , and the environmental impact is an absolute disaster . |
| 29 | Faced with that counter-attack , Murray stubbornly refused repeated appeals to simply say under which Law he took the unprecedented action . |
| 30 | Obviously some men were quite prepared to rely upon their skill and the contract below represented dramatic earnings for Floyd and his partners … |