Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He is putting more structure into his clothes and using rather more natural fibres than man-made miracle fabrics . |
| 2 | At 6 he was dispatched to a school at Great Dunham kept by the rector , Richard Ransome , where he remained , enjoying only very brief holidays , until he went to Eton ; nor did he go home for all of his holidays . |
| 3 | They are consequently able to flow only very short distances before they solidify . |
| 4 | We will ensure that a number of carefully selected children from poor homes , including perhaps even some children or grandchildren of immigrants , are allowed to succeed at school , and to go to university . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the usual thing , gathering together enough financial resources to continue for the coming year . |
| 6 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 7 | Clearly , so long as ministerial assurances are honoured , rate-capping can deliver only very limited reductions in total local authority expenditure . |
| 8 | The third , following work of Al-Mathami , builds somewhat more elaborate trees which can predict properties of examples which are not completely described . |
| 9 | Individually the trusts were small , usually maintaining only about 20 miles of road , but as they were formed and linked , the basis for a coherent road network was being established . |
| 10 | In addition to the immediately obvious atmospheric hazards it was possible to include less immediately obvious ones associated with volcanoes ( Clapperton , 1972 ) and earthquakes . |
| 11 | Mr Stewart said events like Europartenariat — a European Community initiative aimed at bringing together over 1,000 companies to form trading links — were important as it could help Scottish companies implement their European strategies by meeting potential business partners . |
| 12 | Situated only about two miles from where the threshold of Heathrow 's runway 27L is today , Hanworth was once a fascinating place and home of all kinds of interesting flying machines , as well as a flying training school . |
| 13 | As well as making abstract pictures of pressed flowers , you can also make much more naturalistic designs . |
| 14 | For this reason we now sell only artificially cultivated bulbs and this is indicated on the packaging . |
| 15 | Erm however , you do find some indications from some studies that people report rather more negative things about their er about their early home environment . |
| 16 | Naturally , it has rather more modest ambitions — at least for the time being . |
| 17 | A number of things have changed since er , we reported rather gloomily six months ago . |
| 18 | ‘ Which is a weird coincidence — since both crimes appear to have been committed within about twenty-four hours of each other . ’ |
| 19 | Later , Mr Roberts added : ‘ Employing only strictly contemporary documents and some extraordinarily painstaking historical scholarship , Charmley has disinterred and raked over every stratum of the Churchill myth . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The balls fly so far these days that Hell 's been taken out of play . |
| 21 | Moreover , from the annual and diurnal growth patterns of organisms , preserved as fossils , it has been established , for example , that about 380 Ma ago there were about 400 ‘ days ’ in the year and as the orbital period of the Earth is very unlikely to have changed the ‘ day ’ must then have contained only about 22 hours . |
| 22 | Subsequently , adult ewes harbour only very low populations of Ostertagia spp. except during the annual periparturient ( PPR ) . |
| 23 | This dish , suitable for a light lunch or supper , needs only freshly cooked vegetables or a salad of endive to accompany it . |
| 24 | Was he really so unaware of those difficulties experienced by the person of colour in white European culture — difficulties of which Frantz Fanon was to write so compellingly fifty years later in Black Skin , White Masks , and in relation to France specifically ? |
| 25 | Beyond a change of government , the revolution has much more ambitious aims : the creation of the new human being . |
| 26 | It is at once apparent that the McKinsey-GE matrix has much less definite measurements for its axes . |
| 27 | In non-profit organizations , particularly in Type B , the stewardship accounts provide much more limited measures of performance . |
| 28 | Most agree that measures used in combination provide much more reliable indicators of performance . |
| 29 | Consumerism has all too evident limits . |
| 30 | Each of these farms has only about fifty inmates , under very light surveillance by unarmed staff . |