Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became eventually a conscientious objector . |
| 2 | The papers included here also tackle the main features required to implement effectively the new approach which we have outlined above . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , ’ Fritz went red , which , Erika thought , made rather a nice change from her own blushing , and looked at his shoes . |
| 4 | Aunt Janice was clothed ( shirt and jeans ) , which made rather a refreshing change , and standing in the hallway . |
| 5 | Er Mr Deputy Speaker it 's also quite important that I make clear the Labour party 's position in respect to the article which calls for uniform electoral procedures to be set up for elections to the European parliament . |
| 6 | The dot location task , which involves predominantly the right hemisphere , was expected to remain unaffected . |
| 7 | But subsequent inquiries revealed rather a different story . |
| 8 | I think we have given rather a gloomy vision of what being a parent is |
| 9 | ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity . |
| 10 | But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’ |
| 11 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 12 | This support is rarely total but undoubtedly some newspapers , e.g. the Daily Mail , Sun , are more ready than others to support wholeheartedly the political party of their choice . |
| 13 | In particular , we need to know far more about those numerous families which moved from the countryside but which experienced only a hum-drum life in the towns or at best only a modest prosperity . |
| 14 | Yet mercenaries seem still to have formed only a small part of the German army ; the fief-rente was almost exclusively used to supply garrisons for castles and fortified towns ; and as the Church and its ministeriales became a less reliable source of troops , the twelfth-century emperors resorted to the practice of strengthening feudal bonds and building up the resources of their own domains . |
| 15 | Equally , a significantly higher concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 in malignant ascites confirms previous work , but as it is a weaker inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator and is present in much lower concentrations than plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 , it probably plays only a small part in the overall inhibition of fibrinolytic activity . |
| 16 | Thus an education department may be organised on an area basis so that the centre plays only a co-ordinating role . |
| 17 | Mike Roberts and colleagues at the CEGB 's research laboratories now think that air pollution plays only a minor role after all ( Forestry , vol 62 , pp 179-222 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Then , Benedict , you have heard only the scandalous tale . |
| 19 | BSL therefore stores story information and re-tells it in a way which would occur for all languages , but spoken language surface structure ( reflecting only a specific point in time and context ) would tend to hide this in its effort for reconstruction of meaning . |
| 20 | Some see it as reflecting only an odd set of ancient taboos . |
| 21 | In this new lab of his he can knock together a human being out of the unlikeliest odds and ends . |
| 22 | Therefore , simply to represent Jesus as the Good Shepherd without any explanatory note would convey entirely the wrong impression . |
| 23 | Initially , most contracts are likely to include only a broad specification of the service being purchased . |
| 24 | THE 101st anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19th got only a muted celebration in Hanoi . |
| 25 | ‘ Once , Ndah was clean through and he was blatantly brought down by Mike Marsh , who got only a yellow card . |
| 26 | The analysis so far constitutes only a partial account of science . |
| 27 | Since , women 's break in labour-market experience constitutes only a small part of their life-spans , other factors must help account for their disadvantaged position . |
| 28 | And Jung 's phrase ‘ something in us ’ implies that the wish constitutes only a small element in the psyche — one that is not difficult for a sensible , mature person to reject , once she/he has recognised how unrealistic it is . |
| 29 | Frequently , the analytical courses are cut out in joint schemes , and the students gain only a superficial introduction to both subjects . |
| 30 | But her family owned only the upper floor of Damiani 's old house . |