Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the arts , the shortage of NHS funds causes suffering and even death . |
| 2 | There are 5 arm spines obscured by thick skin ; when denuded they appear glossy and quite rugose with large secondary points along the shaft of the spine . |
| 3 | Unfortunately a cold home , heated only when there are wet clothes around , causes damp and consequently health problems . |
| 4 | put fifty and then tan and now equals . |
| 5 | if butane gas or aerosols are sprayed directly into the mouth , they may cool the throat tissues causing swelling and perhaps suffocation |
| 6 | Look fine and distinctly dandy , teaming your tweeds with a waistcoat and jodhpurs . |
| 7 | ( 8.4 ) , as n approaches infinity approaches zero and so Eq . |
| 8 | MI5 never replied , GCHQ expressed polite and emphatically arm 's length interest , and the CIA offered help , exhibits and the information that the only other museum of spying they know of is in Havana . |
| 9 | He or she may also have vomiting and possibly diarrhoea . |
| 10 | Abundance of it represented laughter and joy ; scarcity represented suffering and even death . |
| 11 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 12 | Do n't you dare I 'm in charge of this interview and erm and erm and erm what 's caused this and why discussion what has caused this change to try and find out and put him off Horrible feeling you see two people shouting at each other two people shouting at each other get the impression that the other party is actually doing an impression of a goldfish and going like that . |
| 13 | As competition in the international brewery industry , intensifies , growth opportunities become fewer and so ingenuity and creative flair become more important . |
| 14 | Lovejoy and Latimer would not accept that curved phalanges ( toes and fingers ) necessarily meant grasping and hence arboreality . |
| 15 | I was gon na be happy to move the recommendation sir and anyone who 's aware of the traffic problem in London Road Brandon will , will support that and also sir the figures that in the questionnaire that was sent out support route A , emphatically because you 'll notice that double the people er double the number who returned the questionnaire supported route A as opposed to any of the other alternatives , so , so I think the , the recommendation that we were to accept this morning 's various adequately worded and , and accepted . |
| 16 | In a less flamboyant way , numberless provisions of state law , county councils , and local authorities , regulate and make possible the wealth , power , and by most people 's lights , the reasonable and necessary exclusivity , of clubs , societies , schools , and universities which foster fraternal and even class loyalties . |
| 17 | Rosenberg could sense the counter-accusations ringing across the Atlantic , the worst of them perhaps unspoken : Americans had idealist and somewhat puritan expectations of how Dr Aveling should have behaved , Americans are a simple people , literal-minded and dependent on secondary sources of information . |
| 18 | Users need to take more and more E every time to produce the same high . |
| 19 | Exercises were branded outdated and even presentation Medical Correspondent was rated below average . |
| 20 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |