Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witchcraft and sorcery , which in any case few other cultures distinguish as sharply as the Zande , are not the only mystical responses to the experience of affliction in tense relationships . |
| 2 | These three completely different views build up more and more tension . |
| 3 | He has pointed out that platelet aggregates grow very rapidly and , although platelet adhesion to collagen is almost instantaneous , there is a lag period ( several seconds ) before aggregation proceeds ( Wilner et al , 1969 ) . |
| 4 | Brown and McCormick 's skuas and Wilson 's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere . |
| 5 | Turkle ( 1984 ) , for example , analyses how computers provide female-as well as male-identified cognitive experiences . |
| 6 | Traditionally reared animals grow more slowly than those reared under intensive farming conditions — they are therefore more mature and are hung for two or three weeks to bring out the flavour . |
| 7 | If you 're selling cars , you 've got a guarantee warranty with it , and I think most customers are misled into believing that those guarantees and warranties cover far more than they do in fact . |
| 8 | Since animals depend either directly or indirectly on plants for food , all life is affected by the variations in weather over the seasons . |
| 9 | And unless someone possesses unique powers of extrasensory perception which enables him to influence the balls in the caller 's cabinet , character references are strictly irrelevant to the outcome of the jolly game of life in which eyes look down rather than upward for support . |
| 10 | Such organizations look inward rather than outward . |
| 11 | In some rocks their shells lie so thickly that they form solid bands . |
| 12 | Okay , it 's too close but how many , how many cars travel any further than that apart ? |
| 13 | Many of the animals swim so quickly that they do not stay in sight for long . |
| 14 | As I see it , the considerations set out above and taken as a whole lead irresistibly to the conclusion that , when considering the expression ‘ any person ’ in the sections , it is impossible to identify any particular limitation which can be said , with any degree of confidence , to represent the presumed intention of Parliament . |
| 15 | Thirst is a more imperative drive , intruding into dreams even when the subjects know full well that they are merely taking part in an experiment , and that water will be available in the morning . |
| 16 | These reprisals set out specifically and successfully to drive a wedge of animosity between the Palestinians and their increasingly resentful hosts in south Lebanon , the Shiite community . |
| 17 | Sergeants and Inspectors know almost exactly where an officer can be found at a certain time , and woe betide the constable who keeps his superior officer waiting . |
| 18 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 19 | And the winners go out there and get what they want . |
| 20 | On such trials , subjects respond more quickly if the prime and target are related than unrelated , presumably reflecting a spread of semantic activation within the cognitive system . |
| 21 | This means that the heads stay in more or less the right position when switching between applications , thus speeding things up a little . |
| 22 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 23 | Some lists end up longer than others , but no values interfere . |
| 24 | Bent DNA can be detected due to anomalous migration in polyacrylamide gels since bent DNA fragments migrate more slowly than linear fragments of the same size . |
| 25 | Sony , the system 's developer , reckons that pictures carry more efficiently than print the increasing weight of information people have to assimilate . |
| 26 | She squeezed her eyes shut as tightly as possible . |
| 27 | Words come in only as convenient for purposes of illustration . |
| 28 | Basil was the exact opposite of those to whom words come so easily that they do a minimum of preparation , and afterwards the listener has difficulty in remembering what has been said . |
| 29 | Some bisexual relationships work perfectly well as long as everyone knows the score . |
| 30 | Exactly three rounds after the lid has been opened , from the top of the sides of the chest , a full array of amazingly sharp knives spring inwards so that the whole top of the chest is effectively suddenly full of knife blades . |