Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mistaken loan decisions or pricing policies swiftly come home to roost in an organisation with a balance sheet of only a few hundred million . |
| 2 | Annabelle 's late father , George , used to enjoy a game of football/a game of golf/fixing the car on Saturday afternoons , and we spent many happy hours together sailing/relaxing often accompanied by Steven . |
| 3 | I have seen Koi survive and thrive in the most unlikely ponds , providing their owners provide knowledgeable TLC , and I have witnessed good carp caught by anglers using rods apparently fit only to support runner beans . |
| 4 | Evidence about the patterns of gaze which speakers normally adopt thus supports the view that the hesitant phase of speech is one in which planning of current and following utterances ( within the same cycle ) is carried out . |
| 5 | The old form of the testimonium was usually as follows : IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have caused their common seals ( for corporations ) to be hereunto affixed the day and year first before written or IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have hereunto placed their hands and seals ( for individuals ) the day and year first before written Section 1 of the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 coupled with s 36A of the Companies Act 1985 have introduced changes to the execution of deeds by providing that a document shall not be a deed unless it is clear on its face that it is intended to be a deed . |
| 6 | A few months later OMB also claimed that deregulation had brought about savings of $9 billion to $11 billion in once-only costs and 86 billion in annual recurring costs . |
| 7 | The care staff in such homes understandably felt inadequately trained to respond to this new pattern and were no longer certain about their roles , so clearly defined in the past as parental . |
| 8 | In the process , it discovered such homes often provided better care for seriously mentally frail elderly people than local authority accommodation . |
| 9 | With recent advances in technology , even personal computers now have much increased memory capacity , so a lexical look-up technique which uses a large vocabulary ( say , anything over 20,000 words ) is now feasible . |
| 10 | Generally in rational expectations models in macroeconomics the policy rule generating the prediction for a variable comprises an equation whose determining variables typically comprise both lagged endogenous variables ( e.g. values of and lagged exogenous variables ( e.g. ) . |
| 11 | GRAMMATICAL WORDS typically have very specialised meanings and can be particularly difficult for non-native speakers to learn . |
| 12 | Wondering whether the prim Miss Goody-Goody of a few months ago had really metamorphosed into this forlorn and wanton creature , Miranda said , ‘ I 'll send a car for you . |
| 13 | But the company which took his money just two months ago has now closed down . |
| 14 | A series of shake-ups here has already seen two leading vendors , Georgia , Roswell-based , Computone Systems Inc and the UK firm Specialix Ltd , Byfleet , Surrey , reining back their operations in attempts to re-position themselves . |
| 15 | 2.2 Subject to all Landlord 's Approvals and all other consents being obtained ( which the Landlord shall forthwith apply for and obtain with all due expedition ) and continuing in force ( which continuation in force the Landlord shall use its best endeavours to ensure is maintained ) the Landlord shall entirely at its own expense in all respects immediately proceed diligently to carry out and complete the Works : |
| 16 | These craftsmen then travelled widely to execute commissions . |
| 17 | South Korea 's Environment Minister has been sacked following a major scandal in which tap water in millions of homes twice became severely polluted . |
| 18 | The evidence , however , would suggest that in general schools either make little attempt to develop this ability in their pupils , or if they do , it is done very ineffectively . |
| 19 | Western scientists were not allowed on the scene then , and for many months afterwards had only restricted access . |
| 20 | He points out that after the first few days the violence vanished along with the hype and , instead , young black men from warring gangs actually got together to discuss the film . |
| 21 | Her trunk movements slowly became more controlled , so that Rose could begin to balance . |
| 22 | Adjustment for work characteristics and social circumstances outside work alone reduced the trends in short absences across the grades by 26% for men and 35% for women . |
| 23 | But the further they go the more interesting they get and of course er the visitors tonight have already had a good win . |
| 24 | The three functions just described also have responsibilities in the field of project management . |
| 25 | Many Northern Ireland companies already have well established exporting links . |
| 26 | After such experiences , first-time visitors usually vow never to return ! |
| 27 | The global situation is that accidents such as Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have initiated a move away from nuclear power but many countries still remain fully committed to its development , albeit with greater concern for safety standards and procedures at nuclear reactors . |
| 28 | As the feminist and structuralist critiques remind us , liberal pluralist models also fail adequately to conceptualize political and economic power , and the patterns of inequality that result from its operation . |
| 29 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 30 | Many supermarkets now sell naturally produced lamb . |