Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the uncritical acceptance of Skinner 's concept of the problem and solution of learning and its equally uncritical rejection in favour of another serve only to bring pedagogy into disrepute . |
| 2 | We have abandoned restorative proctocolectomy after failed ileorectal anastomosis in patients with slow transit constipation as half have now requested pouch excision because of poor results . |
| 3 | The under 13's have already achieved success with the team having reached the final of the 1990 Under 13 's Scottish Cup , involving about 120 teams in total . |
| 4 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 5 | But nevertheless some have ruthlessly taken advantage of them . |
| 6 | Drake has black head , glossed green , with prominent white spot between bill and eye ; duck and immature have less peaked head , chocolate-brown with no spot . |
| 7 | Our two dogs — Sombro , a black Labrador cross , and Picosso , a white Boxer — also seem to enjoy the easy come easy go existence . |
| 8 | Its FASware software includes a proprietary 80,000-line real-time kernel and an all-important Write Anywhere File Layout ( WAFL ) file system designed from the ground up to handle files up to 4Gb and requiring no disk partitioning , a traditional Unix nightmare . |
| 9 | Its FASware software includes a proprietary 80,000-line real-time kernel and an all-important Write Anywhere File Layout file system designed from the ground up to handle files up to 4Gb and requiring no disk partitioning , a traditional Unix nightmare . |
| 10 | Gorbachev 's March 21 decree also ordered reinforcement of the Soviet border in Lithuania and tightening of entry visa regulations . |
| 11 | Most of these have now taken retirement , there are a few more to go , er but we are still recruiting specialists in the areas where we have work and where there are plenty of jobs going , so it 's not all bad news . |
| 12 | These have occasionally given rise to strange sea-farers ' tales of ‘ floating islands ’ . |
| 13 | 5 Use specially designed release paper and lay out the release with regard to subbing requirements . |
| 14 | Field reports from the US Lollapalooza II tour further fuelled interest . |
| 15 | While the likes of Brian Grant ( Aberdeen ) , Nicky Walker ( Hearts ) and Darren Jackson ( Hibs ) gained full international recognition for the first time , all have yet to negotiate weekend derby matches . |
| 16 | Financial collapses , major frauds , litigation , environmental responsibility , all have understandably given rise to demands for companies to strengthen their control over their business and their public accountability . |
| 17 | All have fully equipped kitchenette , private facilities and balcony . |
| 18 | After about 1820 Burn rarely sacrificed comfort or convenience to grandiose spaces or symmetry . |
| 19 | The 1990s have already brought peace agreements in Nicaragua and El Salvador . |
| 20 | This is a test that the English , Irish , Scots and Welsh have all passed time and again . |
| 21 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 22 | The previous day they will play for West in a Courage League Division Two match away to bottom club Liverpool St Helens . |
| 23 | The two have never seen eye to eye apparently and although some papers called him a hothead , Horton insists he was n't going to have a go at the ref , who was given a police escort back to the dressing rooms . |
| 24 | He pulled away from them both long enough to wipe blood from his face and to lean on the stair-rail , sucking in deep breaths . |
| 25 | The first ‘ Hooligans ’ of the 1890s and the ‘ Garotters ’ of the 1860s do little to kindle nostalgia for Victorian city life and culture . |
| 26 | The survey found that 39 per cent of British women are faithful to one partner over a lifetime , while one in 17 men and women under 59 have never had sex . |
| 27 | According to the magazine , 29 of the top 50 paper millionaires in 1988 have since lost money on paper . |