Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb base] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are studying on a part-time basis as members of a regional course do so as non-residential students , with regular residential weekends and summer schools . |
| 2 | I watched water the colour of the Thames at low tide drain away while I dried myself , and felt the horror of last night drain away with it . |
| 3 | As many as 94% of the working units provide less than 100 standard man-days of work per year ( or two per week ) . |
| 4 | Some pterines occur characteristically as eye pigments , e.g. a group of so.called drosopterins contribute to the red eye colour of the wild.type Drosophila melanogaster . |
| 5 | I do want to claim , however , that the sociological analysis above shows that postmodern cultural objects signify differently than do modernist cultural objects . |
| 6 | In times of economic hardship , private cultural institutions fare better than those dependent on government support . |
| 7 | Waiting list initiatives have had exactly the same effect — because money was diverted to solve a politically sensitive problem , health care rationing priorities have been distorted so that in some cases cash rather than clinical need dictates who gets treated . |
| 8 | There is a variety of detailed arrangements , but the typical relations of producers in these conditions are those of state-corporate employees , or in some cases state rather than market professionals . |
| 9 | By contrast , Germanic philologists of the nineteenth century laboured long and hard to prove that grammatically masculine and feminine words have semantically as well as formally gendered qualities . |
| 10 | If you come from a certain town or region , you will know what the different voices mean better than someone who comes from outside because you 've learned the code . |
| 11 | Some brands tie better than others , having a more slippery surface . |
| 12 | The opposite view , with the fine back , is good too , but in between the extended limbs telescope awkwardly though the full-face is splendid . |
| 13 | Also , some lines sink faster than others , so choose one type for legering and another for float fishing . |
| 14 | The school says some parents owe more than three thousand pounds , and it needs the money to help pay teachers ' salaries . |
| 15 | In general , however , the authors of the article point out that this type of method may not be applicable to other caves as many paintings of this type contain little if any datable pigment . |
| 16 | Surely we all believe enough in BAIE to hope it will be a yardstick of professional competence and status — after all , some companies have more than one IPR member in a department or consultancy ? |
| 17 | Some of the least reliable bands cost more than £2 a pair , while a 50p set passed all the tests . |
| 18 | A good example of this is the way that some Christians have all but taken over , or perhaps been taken in by , the complete relativism in the modern concept of truth . |
| 19 | Some universities take longer than others to notify Aslib of thesis titles , and some delay lending theses to the British Library Document Supply Centre ( BLDSC ) for microfilming and listing in British Reports , Translations and Theses ( BRTT ) . |
| 20 | Some DBMS accept more than one data model type , for example , both relations and hierarchies . |
| 21 | Small firms suffer worst — nine out of ten British businesses employ less than 20 people . |
| 22 | If you 're expecting trouble it 's worth consulting your doctor early as some treatments work best if started in advance . |
| 23 | After 300 yds turn left as signed ( yellow arrow ) , then after 50 yds turn right along riverside ( waymarked ) . |
| 24 | In online catalogue searching , the mean number of significant words is usually a little over two and few searches contain more than three words . |
| 25 | British executives spend more than three years of their working lives travelling and waste £7.5bn a year in lost time every year — equivalent to a 4p cut in income tax . |
| 26 | Multiple regression analysis showed no increase in the correlation when the villous height/crypt depth ratio and intraepithelial lymphocyte count together where compared with the cellobiose/ mannitol % ( multiple r=0.50 ) . |
| 27 | The despatch was already complicated enough : some bureaux hold more than one information system so they are entitled to extra copies of certain reference books . |
| 28 | But even in a bad market some firms do better than others . |
| 29 | It is reinforced by the further recognition that what is now valid may well not be in the future , and that some people see earlier than others when changes in accepted opinions and values are needed . |
| 30 | And he concluded : ‘ The British people deserve better than they got on 9th April , 1992 . ’ |