Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of political symbols on coins naturally becomes particularly strident at times of crisis , especially during periods of civil war . |
| 2 | Big Ears just lies around all day ‘ tuning in ’ . |
| 3 | It does not take long to get used to plotting points on screen with the mouse , so creating simple straight line shapes soon becomes quite easy . |
| 4 | The ‘ country of the Iguanodon restored ’ is very different from Victorian Sussex ; the strange light which picks out the struggling animals also reveals how many tons of animal life the artist believed that the primeval world could support on quite a small area-as later dinosaur pictures always tend to do . |
| 5 | On the other side , the ill-treatment of captive animals often has direct bad effects on the environment . |
| 6 | A place where a certain set of responses still lies perfectly intact . |
| 7 | One of the parents usually becomes especially important . |
| 8 | Since association ( or multi-employer ) bargaining became a major part of the industrial relations systems of these countries the specific collective bargaining role of employers ' associations now requires more detailed analysis . |
| 9 | It does n't take a doctorate in high finance to notice when a group of companies regularly gobbles up other companies , regardless of their line of business , efficiently dismantles them , and sells off any bits worth selling off , at a healthy profit ! ’ |
| 10 | AT&T REPORTS PROGRESS ON CRAMMING 100 TIMES MORE CALLS DOWN ONE OPTICAL FIBRE WITH SOLITON WAVES |
| 11 | The idea of the individual being composed of different interpenetrating and interdependent layers or planes also emphasizes how artificial the distinction is between mental and physical illness . |
| 12 | By contrast the SITE Report ( ‘ Surveying in the Eighties ’ 1980 ) of ten years later makes very different reading : ‘ The role of the building surveyor has become more clearly defined in the past decade … . |
| 13 | Much that was written in those days now sounds appallingly snobbish , and I think it is a great tribute to my parents that we were kept ignorant of such distinctions . |
| 14 | The thrust and strain which has dominated these twenty-five years now seems quite irrelevant . |
| 15 | Checks of interview effectiveness by , for example , having the same list of candidates ranked independently by two selection boards invariably indicates rather poor consistency . |
| 16 | Using pre-formulated questions as a structure for notes also provides more able children with a useful means of synthesising information from a range of sources . |
| 17 | Trying to say the right thing to calm things down or protect people 's feelings only brings more upset and confusion . |
| 18 | Even a large plantation of 200 to 6000 hectares usually has only two or three suitable nest sites . |
| 19 | ( Of course , ‘ things here includes preeminently human experiences . ) |
| 20 | And writers are going to Russia : at the Barbican Pit at the moment is Robert Holman 's enchanting play for the RSC , Across Oka , which uses the relationship between an English and a Russian adolescent to say some pithy things about divides both cultural and geographic . |
| 21 | No prescription will guarantee success but the cultivation of good staff/management relations by taking a positive approach to labour relations probably explains why some are successful and others are not . |
| 22 | A country once famed for providing a succession of wingers now has only one orthodox link with the past , Tranmere 's Nevin , and he was preferred to John Robertson in attack last night . |
| 23 | The social control function of lawyers then takes on moral overtones . |
| 24 | Even limiting the choice to alternative financial assets still opens up many opportunities . |
| 25 | They believe that the approval of others only shows how great they are , seeing the loss of self-will as a form of rape . |
| 26 | But one may note the steady accumulation of evidence that all kinds of mental disorder have a physical basis , and that biochemical adjustment brought about by drugs often provides more effective help to a disturbed person than any other process . |
| 27 | This variation becomes even more compounded when you think about the extremely over-sized sweaters that are common today — a sweater a sweater that is about 24 inches across looks really strange with 16 inch sleeves , rather like flaps — so the designer adds the usual sleeve length . |
| 28 | The plume of smoke from these fires now covers about 15,000 square kilometres ( 5,800 square miles ) and has drifted as far as Iran . |
| 29 | The same segment of the population working as producers and consumers here creates quite contrasting images , although analysis reveals them as emanating from a consistent set of interests . |