Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the golden age for Byrd 's motets has only just begun to dawn , then Byrd 's songs are still in their dark ages . |
| 2 | Almost as large and heavily built as Caspian Tern , but in summer has orange-yellow bill and more distinct crest , in winter ( but not during the moult ) has unstreaked white forehead , and at all times has more deeply forked tail , paler undersides of primaries , and higher-pitched call , a trilling ‘ kir ’ . |
| 3 | It is the evaluators ' impression that the responsibility for producing agendas , convening and chairing meetings , and producing and circulating minutes has most often fallen to the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources and the ACL:E&SS but has remained throughout an area of uncertainty and indecision . |
| 4 | Tremendous publicity was given to the circumstances in which this movie had been made and to the way in which the director had shot some forty reels ; ‘ the eight-hour day for movie fans has not yet dawned ’ was the thankful comment of Robert Sherwood , but few critics doubted that the film conveyed much of the anger , ugliness , and brutality of the novel . |
| 5 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
| 6 | The view that texts simply impose their meaning on readers has long since crumbled in the face of the evidence , as audience studies have pretty conclusively shown . |
| 7 | The National Union of Journalists has once again discussed the situation at their annual Delegate Conference . |
| 8 | Although the number of marketmakers has not substantially changed in the 3 years since the Big Bang the membership has . |
| 9 | A different approach might aim to show that our perception of ourselves as intentional subjects has not always existed , and might then suggest that it arises as a feature of capitalist ideology . |
| 10 | FIERCE competition between building societies and National Savings has so far spared savers even sharper cuts in interest as the base rate falls . |
| 11 | Documentary evidence of the economic damage caused by these animals has only recently become available with the institution in Italy of a programme to refund farmers for losses caused by wolves , which are legally protected . |
| 12 | It draws on the form of words suggested by the Williams Committee for their scheme of prohibition , and the purpose is simply to redefine the essence of the deprave-and-corrupt approach for those for whom the old form of words seems too far removed from the values and habits of today : |
| 13 | Editor , — J K Aronson and D J M Reynolds 's article on monitoring treatment with aminoglycoside antibiotics does not adequately address optimal dosing with these agents or the timing of assays , nor does it specify which patients need monitoring . |
| 14 | A ward full of learning opportunities does not automatically ensure that the student will learn . |
| 15 | The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) . |
| 16 | But the allocation of library resources between subjects does not necessarily follow a logical or easily summarized method . |
| 17 | The ‘ I-Thou ’ of personal and communal relationships does not really apply . |
| 18 | The fact that not all societies that anthropologists call ‘ patrilineal ’ exhibit correspondingly warm relationships between sister 's sons and mother 's brothers does not necessarily invalidate the argument either ; for , as we shall see later , definitions of what constitutes ‘ patrilineal ’ kinship ( or ‘ matrilineal ’ for that matter ) are seldom watertight . |
| 19 | No long experience of membership of a constituency party is necessary to enable one to guess that the selection of Irish candidates does not always proceed smoothly . |
| 20 | A further 210 families have made appointments and a special helpline set up to deal with inquiries from worried parents has so far received 137 calls . |
| 21 | The success of their handhelds has not yet encouraged them to plan further developments . |
| 22 | The increased cost of imports has not yet started to appear in the rate of inflation . |
| 23 | Sir , — The Chancellor 's proposal to add VAT to domestic fuel bills has once again set alarm bells ringing for pensioners and others on low incomes . |
| 24 | Their exclusive claim to punish clergymen for ordinary offences has long since disappeared ; the power to try and punish laymen for immorality has become practically obsolete ; their jurisdiction over the matters of ritual , and ecclesiastical offences of clergymen , such as heresy , still remains and is still exercised by them . |
| 25 | Remember , pressing both |
| 26 | I trust that at some stage I will have the opportunity to tax him on the curious proposal that legislation which increases the wage bill of companies does not necessarily increase the costs of those companies and therefore can be regarded as having nil effect on their competitiveness . |
| 27 | The fact , however , that they have designed a language to fulfil these functions does not necessarily mean that these functions could not be fulfilled in other ways , nor that their language is intrinsically connected with them , nor that the language has necessarily been proven to succeed in achieving these ideals . |
| 28 | The experience Mr Chairman I have of these situations is that trees happen to fall down , and hedges happen to get pushed by bulldozers , and at the end of the day , because I 've seen it in my own village where I was born , I 'm afraid with all respect to what happens , what is actually passed by the planners does n't actually come to pass because there is always a reason why it ca n't . |
| 29 | Tracks records thus far include : . |
| 30 | The use of Anglican chant for psalms and canticles has almost entirely ceased , but in the Eucharist the better known settings by Appleford , Rutter and Shephard are used . |