Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who , they asked each other , was this newcomer , who had succeeded where so many others had failed ? |
| 2 | Carpenter and Just [ 1983 ] showed that syntactically ambiguous words take longer to process than syntactically unambiguous words , indicating that the reader is trying to determine the syntactic role of the ambiguous word while fixating it . |
| 3 | However , issues like those listed above can only begin to be seriously addressed if more fundamental assumptions about primary practice are challenged at the same time . |
| 4 | Members of the Great and Good appointed to these bodies not only had similar backgrounds and education , but acceptance of the job , with its admission to a distinguished club , involved adopting if not identical views , at least a similar perspective . |
| 5 | ‘ D' you know because so many people switch off their TVs by remote control instead of pulling out the plug , they go on using electricity , the same in one night that would power Leicester for one day . |
| 6 | This approach is best suited to the study of small to moderate amounts of data but its merits have probably been exaggerated since even skilled statisticians need minutes rather than seconds to respond sensibly to output from all but the simplest analysis steps . |
| 7 | Lord Apsley , heir to the Cirencester Park Estate , has been placed on probation after admitting driving while nearly four times over the alchohol limit . |
| 8 | A relationship between the bargaining level and the extent of union and employer organisational centralisation may be expected since appropriately structured organisations are likely to be established so as to meet the requirements of a particular level of decision-making in the bargaining process . |
| 9 | This uncertainty makes it particularly interesting to know whether intentionally childless women are different in personality or attitudes from those who wish to have children , and whether these attitudes could readily become more widespread . |
| 10 | There are , however , no good data to indicate whether reproductively fit mothers produce reproductively fit offspring . |
| 11 | After a shaky start full back Nick Pickering got himself booked after only 42 seconds for chopping down Worrall Sterling Quakers restricted Posh to three first half chances , even though the promotion chasers enjoyed most possession . |
| 12 | There will always be the problem of trying to infer whether apparently tacit collusion really was well-concealed explicit collusion . |
| 13 | The gallery now manages its own building ; the problem of the site next door was resolved after over fifty years , and I genuinely believe that the gallery floor in the Sainsbury Wing built on that site provides the best space for Old Master paintings to have been created anywhere in the last forty or fifty years . |
| 14 | If the old guard could be depicted as slightly fusty quasi-academics , the ‘ new boys ’ , who became the opinion leaders in the 1970s , with their retinue of henchmen and clones at local level , were more populist in their manner and opportunist in their principles . |
| 15 | But he was saved on the greens , especially the seventeenth , where he holed a monster putt which he described as about 60 feet long , to sweep into the lead . |
| 16 | He appreciates , too , that he must , in this instance , tread a diplomatic line between doing his job properly and maintaining good relations with club managers whose assistance he will need when fully competitive matches arise . |
| 17 | Marxist views are not approached as merely theoretical formulations but also as guidelines for action . |
| 18 | Changes of intensity may be included though proportionally less significance can be given to them . |
| 19 | His spine then became a great tree with many branches , known as Kai-n-tiku-aba , and the first people sprouted as so many blossoms and fruit . |
| 20 | The city day starts as so many homes do with the bustle of women . |
| 21 | I wondered if he thought Dana and I were about to tie the knot , or whether he was thinking of us individually — the latter , I think , because he had warned me against marriage once or twice before when I had shown what he regarded as too much interest in a woman friend . |
| 22 | They also make a specific suggestion that causally connected episodes will be better recalled than temporally connected episodes . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , there is a specific prediction to be examined and that is whether causally connected episodes are better recalled than temporally connected episodes . |
| 24 | Although this approach may be more ambiguous and more difficult to implement than more common practices , it seems to result in services that are more fluid , creative , and egalitarian and potentially more responsive to client and community needs . |
| 25 | These should be harder to reverse than purely domestic initiatives . |
| 26 | Levels of 1 PPM were unlikely to be exceeded if only one embalment is performed daily , but many embalmers , of course , regularly perform more than one procedure per day , in which case the current ( U.S. ) standard could very well be exceeded . |
| 27 | A crystal monochromator may be used to narrow the line and eliminate unwanted components , but the increase in complexity and the reduction in intensity that are inevitably involved mean that this is only done if very high resolution is required ( see below ) . |
| 28 | Another said : ‘ Sugar wo n't succeed because too many people are against him . |
| 29 | Finally , the safety of longterm maintenance therapy to prevent peptic ulcer recurrence has been discussed but not fully evaluated because barely 15 years have elapsed since their introduction world-wide . |
| 30 | She said that she would not appear before specially constituted courts , but was nevertheless present for a hearing before a tribunal in Karachi on Sept. 31 , which granted her exemption from future court appearances until after the elections . |