Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We found Venturous better than ever with her new engines and at fourteen knots was much quieter and free from the old vibration . |
| 2 | In the 1977 US survey , people were asked to give the order of importance that they attached to various different types of disclosure information about credit terms , and more ( 62 per cent ) mentioned APRs first than even the size of their monthly payment ( which was judged the next most important ) . |
| 3 | ‘ You said you would pay to save my life , ’ he reminded her , his eyes glinting humorously , which made Ruth angrier than ever . |
| 4 | Hyundai Electronic America 's Axil Workstations Inc is bent on conquering the slippery slopes of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc cloning , and last week announced the Axil-220 , a MicroSparc knock-off of the Sparc Classic undercutting Sun by pricing it at $3,600 in single quantities and letting it run Solaris 1.1 as well as 2. x . |
| 5 | That 's alright , I got Bradford wrong as well . |
| 6 | Get titles right as well and if you are using initials for long names always spell out the name at least once . |
| 7 | If we are to connect the small towns and other settlements which were provided with fortifications with the needs of provincial administration , then they should contain buildings identifiable as either the residences and offices of the local officials , or granaries and stores-buildings for the collection and security of taxes in kind . |
| 8 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 9 | Well e erm I do n't want to dwell on this point but it it may have implications wider than just where these boundaries are . |
| 10 | We have to consider factors other than merely resources . |
| 11 | Research theses and postgraduate courses can fulfil ends other than purely educational ones ; but they can not become , as part of higher education , simply instrumental , whether in the direction of academic careers or professional careers . |
| 12 | The book did not mention man other than obliquely , and it was not until 1871 that Darwin published The Descent of Man ; but it was clear from 1859 that the ancestry of man rather than that of horses was the crucial question . |
| 13 | With Major announcing that Government support would now total £115 million as well as pledging it would underwrite costs , they hailed his enthusiastic involvement as their trump card . |
| 14 | I would n't care to offer advice to gamblers , because I 'm sure that people who bet on horses do things other than purely look at the odds the horse if offered at . |
| 15 | Did anybody get number nine as well ? |
| 16 | I 'll have to try and get number one as well . |
| 17 | Erm I wo n't dwell on York city centre and its historic core because you 're all clearly aware of that , but it its setting was accepted at the greenbelt enquiry as being sufficiently important to warrant protection wider than just its physical , existing physical limits , erm the special protection was accorded also to the the special character rather was accorded also to the surrounding countryside , much of which is very attractive , and many of the typical Yorkshire small villages and hamlets that surround the area as well , er and we 're clearly in a position in Greater York which is different from the position that arises in many other counties and many other districts within this county , we 're in a position of grave shortage of suitable , developable land , we 're in a position of high quality er character , and landscape , we 're in a position where York , in particular , has extremely good transportation links , to the Leeds Bradford conurbation , where we discuss at length over the last two days there are policies for urban regeneration , subject to regional planning guidance in that area erm and we 're in a position where quite clearly York is under pressure , a great deal of pressure from migrants , er because it 's a it 's an attractive location to live . |