Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Act of which you speak states equally clearly that a rogue and vagabond is a person who wanders abroad without any visible means of subsistence . |
| 32 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 33 | The author 's experience in Africa and Australia , and his study in Europe , convinced him that the participative training techniques developed by the ATB had much to otter agricultural progress in all countries , third world developing countries as well as developed countries . |
| 34 | Tests under conditions which are periodically changed can , by imposing changing stresses on a pack , reveal inadequacies more quickly than can storage at a constant temperature . |
| 35 | The other side of the coin is that firms may now be hiring workers more quickly as demand picks up . |
| 36 | This question indicates one of the reasons why I ask patients to answer questions as spontaneously as possible . |
| 37 | Of course , some people will refuse to co-operate at all , but once an interview is under way most people will be prepared to answer questions so long as they seem genuine and relevant . |
| 38 | Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ? |
| 39 | Conversely , the more the government feels able to tolerate the income distribution thrown up in a free market economy , the more the government can resist distortionary taxation and allow competitive free markets to allocate resources as efficiently as possible . |
| 40 | She was long-legged and rather awkward and did n't do things quickly even when she got started ! |
| 41 | If it were true that the private sector uses resources more productively than the public sector , the transfer of resources might directly produce more output . |
| 42 | The handling of the bike , for example , was causing difficulties early on but with the help of his teammates , Jeremy was soon back on song . |
| 43 | Why are discount stores able to sell goods more cheaply than High Street retailers ? |
| 44 | Okay , well shall I do windmills again just as |
| 45 | This involves , among other things , comparing the level of debt with operating profits as well as with the value of the assets . |
| 46 | An issue that the guillotine motion will not allow us to discuss does not involve improving the average standards , but the fact that those local authorities that already exceed the minimum standard and conduct inspections more frequently than once every four years will be required to lower their standards . |
| 47 | So long as two key sequences do not produce overlapping remainders this can achieve results considerably better than true randomization . |
| 48 | This gives the shoots time to dry which , short as it may be , helps the formation of callus tissue and in fact inserting cuttings too quickly while the cutting tip is still moist and unhealed is one of the most common reasons for failure . |
| 49 | Around half of those who replied ( 56% ) had never before visited the Library 's exhibitions , and only about a quarter ( 23% ) had previously visited exhibitions more frequently than once a year . |
| 50 | Although it is possible to lose weight by dieting alone , combining dieting with exercise will show results more quickly and improve your body shape . |
| 51 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 52 | It then becomes impossible to rank societies as more or less aggressive than one another , just as it is impossible to say that one society is more or less evil than another . |
| 53 | There , in this country , more so than any other country in Europe , there 's a tradition of adults abusing children quite legitimately as well in the form of beating them and erm indeed headmasters of Eton back in the eighteenth and nineteenth century were often selected , not because of their scholarly ability , but because of their size and strength . |
| 54 | By the 1650s those to and from all foreign diplomats in London were being opened and copied in the Post Office ; and in 1665 the French ambassador acknowledged that the English " have tricks to open letters more skilfully than anywhere in the world " . |
| 55 | Hindsight is very good at telling us that we should have noticed trends much earlier than we did because all the signs were available . |
| 56 | In this way , favourable long-term contracts are negotiated between supplier and merchant , contracts which benefit consumers both directly and via Europe 's trade balance . |
| 57 | As we understand it , the Chancellor does not tax spirits more heavily because of their intrinsic properties nor because of the categories of persons who consume spirits , but because he considers that spirits face market circumstances which allow them to bear heavier taxes . |
| 58 | This involves a number of areas , such as costing jobs as accurately as possible in terms of time and resources , and identifying any inherent contradictions and incompatibilities within the set of demands . |
| 59 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 60 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |