Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb -s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 2 | The dozen or so rounds included music , sport , history , geography , art and literature but Crawley waited for the film , TV and theatre questions before playing their joker . |
| 3 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 4 | If , therefore , the lexical meaning of the verb has any negative or hypothetical value then by that very fact the speaker wholly or conditionally withdraws any assurance that the adjectival property will hold factually . |
| 5 | Occasionally teachers were allowed to fit into school hours or overtime courses some algebra , Euclid , French , Latin and Irish . |
| 6 | This would seem particularly likely if the adult is facing or already has financial difficulties . |
| 7 | But " thinking like a scientist " sooner or later involves greater autonomy , a bigger share of the decision-making : not simply discussing with the teacher and learning to guess from his facial expressions or other clues what the " right " answer might be , but actually wrestling unprompted with the methodology and materials in order to find it out for oneself . |
| 8 | ‘ did assault … ( specify person ) ’ Assault means an act which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence ( Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [ 1968 ] 3 All ER 445 ) . |
| 9 | Police Force ( or Constabulary ) ’ Assault means an act which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence ( Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [ 1968 ] 3 All ER 445 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Means an act which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence ( Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [ 1968 ] 3 All ER 445 ) . |
| 11 | Where a carer feels in conflict with the demands of different people in the household , or even has two dependents , the stress is much greater . |
| 12 | The research aims to obtain detailed evidence of the various ways in which assistance given to firms by district councils conflicts with , or alternatively helps regional policy to bring jobs to the depressed areas . |
| 13 | makes a statement , promise or forecast which he knows to be misleading , false or deceptive or dishonestly conceals any material facts ; or |
| 14 | Second , if the patient breathes , however weakly and albeit without the regularity or strength to sustain himself , or otherwise demonstrates some sign of brain-stem functioning , then the question arises as to whether or not to switch the machine on again . |
| 15 | If you carefully plan a new health regime that slowly introduces slight modifications to your usual meals , perhaps to try different ways of cooking food , to have slightly larger portions of vegetables and fruit , you will eventually find that your food preferences change slightly , enough to tip the balance from an unhealthy diet ( too high in fat and sugar , too low in fibre ) , to a healthy one that will help you attain and then maintain a slim figure . |
| 16 | The merit of the book , however , does not so much lie in its attempt to break the " iron curtain " that traditionally separates linguistic and literary approaches to literature , but rather in its contribution to the development of a stylistics that successfully reconciles linguistic analysis with a consideration of the socio-cultural and ideological dimensions of the production and reception of literary texts . |
| 17 | Yet beer — good beer — is a highly complex product and one that arguably needs greater skill to produce than wine . |
| 18 | Despite being very nicely presented in a slip binder with well printed manuals , shame they did n't follow the ‘ industry standard ’ for size , the first thing the new user sees is a license agreement that effectively disclaims all responsibility for anything . |
| 19 | Each stream is analogous to a body , whose ‘ development ’ is influenced by dust seed ‘ genes ’ , a body that eventually spawns new dust seeds . |
| 20 | Of all musics , ‘ dance ’ is the one that most preaches unthinking hedonism . |
| 21 | Jealousy is a label here that merely interprets that behaviour . |
| 22 | The male of the latter is a solitary night hunter of the forest floor that only meets another rasse to mate and leaves rearing the young to the female . |
| 23 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 24 | Come 's manager has a guest list that alone exceeds normal capacity ; quite how one is to witness a band to their best advantage in such conditions is hard to fathom . |
| 25 | For example , in practice it is extremely difficult to make a brain lesion that entirely removes one part of the brain while leaving the rest intact ; they are either too large or too small . |
| 26 | I just wonder at the necessity of it in an area that already has two golf-courses to its credit . |
| 27 | Why should a female want to pair up with a male that already has several females when there are bachelors around ? |
| 28 | It may be argued that therein lies evolutionary justification for the belief that some modified form of such living can suit humans . |
| 29 | Now two Americans , Vincent Wilson and Peter Jones at the University of Southern California , have evidence that one of the actions of cancer-causing chemicals may be to jam the mechanism that normally keeps these genes — as well as other cellular genes — under control . |
| 30 | But he wo n't take anyone on full time for the simple fact that just takes one guy off the dole and and makes his life good . |