Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] and [adv] [noun] " 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 | It was still soaking wet and now Wexford carefully removed from its leather partitions a photograph of Lilian Hatton , a driving licence and a darts club membership card and spread them in the sun to dry . |
| 5 | if butane gas or aerosols are sprayed directly into the mouth , they may cool the throat tissues causing swelling and perhaps suffocation |
| 6 | After retirement these expectations may no longer even be relevant , yet habits die hard and probably patterns of caring have already been established which will go on exerting an influence even though there is no longer any need . |
| 7 | Presumably the well of fast bowlers will one day run dry and then West Indies will have to devise a new strategy ; after all , India did not fare too badly in the 1960s and '70s with a quartet of spinners . |
| 8 | Look fine and distinctly dandy , teaming your tweeds with a waistcoat and jodhpurs . |
| 9 | The C65 really does sound brill and even people that down Commodore reckon it sounds pretty nifty . |
| 10 | Eastern Creek was n't scorching hot and yet Kenny Roberts revealed the Dunlops had been working at their best in the blazing heat of qualifying . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He or she may also have vomiting and possibly diarrhoea . |
| 13 | This seems reasonable and about 50% of these are situated on the Tyne . |
| 14 | Abundance of it represented laughter and joy ; scarcity represented suffering and even death . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , cold war traditions appeared to die hard and neither Douglas Hurd nor James Baker seem to have ‘ factored in ’ a Soviet component for their proposals . |
| 17 | Lovejoy and Latimer would not accept that curved phalanges ( toes and fingers ) necessarily meant grasping and hence arboreality . |
| 18 | Nevin shot over , Aldridge went close and then Higgins hit the bar with a header from Morrissey 's cross . |
| 19 | Twice , Frank Crockford went close and then Alresford extended their lead with another Nigel Clarke penalty . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | East forced two short corners which proved fruitless and likewise Antrim had a similar fate . |
| 22 | I know Cora-Beth wants us to get engaged and now Madeleine 's turned me down , she 'll expect me to propose . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After a period of months , water finds its way into even the innermost air spaces , and the pumice becomes waterlogged and finally sinks . |
| 25 | Exercises were branded outdated and even presentation Medical Correspondent was rated below average . |
| 26 | In civil operations this affects revenue earning potential and therefore profitability and in military environments it affects operational readiness . |
| 27 | Cranston 's mount became skittish and even Philomel showed a lively interest in the group round the scaffold . |
| 28 | Because it is , it is en it is encouraging people to become rich and basically people want to become rich . |