Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A winner of her last two races , she was ridden confidently last time at Chester and cantered clear of nearest rival Anchorage to win by 12 lengths . |
| 2 | The aim of this study was to find out who is really afraid of fully informed consent : British patients or their doctors ? |
| 3 | To acknowledge that amounts to something very different from simply excising history as such . |
| 4 | I 'm not at all interested in just providing background noise . |
| 5 | And she says that at the moment she 's more interested in just having fun than dating . |
| 6 | There 's no evidence the IRA has suddently just become interested in purely attacking property |
| 7 | Even if it 's true that unrivalled new opportunities for AIDS study and drugs testing will result , is it morally OK to deliberately build disease into animals from birth ? |
| 8 | Dissecting and describing , he makes you not only know but feel what it 's like to live without a phone and be totally dependent on erratically functioning call boxes for the battle-lines on which to fight for late or lost benefit payments . |
| 9 | In Britain 's largely black discos and dance-halls , which have always been dependent on mainly recorded music , the role of the DJ or Master of Ceremonies was able to take on a special significance . |
| 10 | For no-one would deny that before any growth and development of curriculum in schools is possible , it is necessary first for teachers to be physically present in the school they are employed in and second for them to be sufficiently interested at least to contemplate change . |
| 11 | Microsoft could face major restructuring after a 30-month investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) found the company guilty of distinctly unsporting behaviour . |
| 12 | The NMR structure is consistent with previously observed structure/activity relationships . |
| 13 | However , the institution which many sociologists have regarded as central in perpetuating inequality — and also , crucially , central in potentially eliminating inequality — is education . |
| 14 | As the warmth of the afternoon lessened , and the sun moved lower in the sky , and the Saturday afternoon noises of lawnmowers and children 's shouts gave way to the tranquillity of the evening , the quiet tenderness with which Johnny had been content until then gave way to a growing passion . |
| 15 | bitterly aromatic , ground-seeds have odour of coumarin , similar to newly mown hay |
| 16 | The lack of detail in recalls made it impossible to adequately divide information into central and peripheral , however , in the sense that most information given was related to events on the road , the information which was recalled should probably be categorized as largely central to the task of driving . |
| 17 | It seems almost impossible to entirely eliminate guilt on either side . |
| 18 | I , I mean obviously I hope the decisions will go my way because Keith has actually argued in the past that we should disregard F E , because he says it 's , it 's impossible to fairly take account of that , and what he means is there 's no F E formulae in Northallerton , so he knows that if F E is excluded Northallerton will be at a major divan |
| 19 | His rambling six-hour speech about his ‘ cases ’ to the Senate left his fellow Senators confused , bewildered and finally despairing of ever making sense of the list . |
| 20 | Rose , vibrant with barely suppressed anger , was the most striking woman he had ever seen . |
| 21 | These Swedish bats seem at the moment to be unique in apparently losing interest in the street lights from May to late summer . |
| 22 | One becomes accustomed to constantly ringing church bells and clocks — our local church clock chimes up to six , then at 7 o'clock it begins again , requiring a mathematical feat to work out the correct time . |
| 23 | The ideal Rottweiler is a medium large , robust and powerful dog , black with clearly defined rust markings . |
| 24 | His voice was rough with barely suppressed fury . |
| 25 | FitzAlan 's voice was rough with barely controlled impatience . |
| 26 | Finally , to use the system as a test vehicle for generating ideas useful to further prototyping work . |
| 27 | Light claims the NHS comes out badly on the Cochrane test for effectiveness ; it is worse than most systems in not treating patients in the most effective place and preventing only what is preventable and poor on openly evaluating effectiveness against non-established alternatives and minimising ill timed interventions . |
| 28 | And it it goes like this that the economy of North Yorkshire generally and of some of its districts in particular has reached the point where it is not possible from internally generated growth to provide er the jobs that the residents . |
| 29 | Managers should be responsible for regularly agreeing training and development needs with each employee in the context of business objectives , setting targets and standards linked , where appropriate to the achievement of National Vocational Qualifications ( or relevant units ) and , in Scotland , Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 30 | He or she knows how , and can be trained , to manage fellow employees ; helping people to manage themselves is an essential core of management and managing relationships between people has to be concerned with always taking account of their attitudes and capacities . |