Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Haifa Bay route would have constituted a serious disruption as it passed overland through intensively developed urban and farming areas to the Jordan Valley , destroying property and agricultural land . |
| 2 | Labourism is not to be understood merely in its institutions and strategies ; it emerged from and is rooted within lived social and material relationships . |
| 3 | Scanning the area with our glasses , we found a party of eider duck and were excited to see that the flock not only contained common and king eider , but a number of Steller 's eider , a ‘ new ’ bird for all of us , which breeds along the Siberian coast and into Alaska . |
| 4 | The most recent trends in family therapy have tended to suggest that seeking merely to increase self- and family awareness may be insufficient to bring about effective change within the family dynamic . |
| 5 | It made her want to cry , the way he suddenly seemed whole and human . |
| 6 | And , too , its past : ‘ Behind punk 's favoured ‘ cut-ups ’ lay hints of disorder , of breakdown and category confusion : a desire not only to erode racial and gender boundaries but also to confuse chronological sequence by mixing up details from different periods . ’ |
| 7 | An excited horse that is enjoying a gallop one minute , may suddenly become fearful and bolt the next . |
| 8 | He entirely lacks financial and business experience . |
| 9 | Caterpillars have limited eyesight — they can really only distinguish light and dark . |
| 10 | The crisis moved world markets , alarmed the West and prompted President Bill Clinton to declare that Mr Yeltsin personally represented democratic and market reform in Russia . |
| 11 | Every conceivable body treatment is available at the health spa , including the Hoar Cross Hall Good Enough to Eat Facial and Aromatherapy Massages . |
| 12 | In the corporate and financial environment , numerically presented financial and survey data was subjected to increasingly sophisticated statistical and econometric analysis . |
| 13 | For many years national and international agencies have been collecting data on some significant social indicators , and it is now possible , with all the provisos about the nature of the data that I have already made , to make some , albeit rough and preliminary ranking of the nations of the world on the most widely accepted social and welfare criteria . |
| 14 | But the seal just looked puzzled and kind , then smiled like the sun rising . |
| 15 | It will be difficult enough comfortably to relate national and Community citizenships . |
| 16 | They 'd not really given themselves the opportunity to consider a song from beginning to end — with them it was just get high and play . |
| 17 | Sometimes , when I have to make precious substances such as toenail cheese or belly-button fluff , I have to go without a shower or bath for days and days ; I hate doing this because I soon feel dirty and itchy , and the only bright thing about such abstinence is how good it feels to have a shower at the end of it . |
| 18 | ‘ Just keep still and drink , ’ he told her . |
| 19 | The dissenters who met in these new places of worship belonged to a Puritan tradition which disapproved of the decoration of churches , and the interiors of meeting-houses were thus kept bare and plain . |
| 20 | Especially if , as in recent years , there is not boss or patron of the peloton to keep the pace down , to stamp down the rebels and thus avoid unnecessary and strength-sapping chases . |
| 21 | Having indirectly made Mrs Thatcher pay with her political life for refusing to sign up to their timetable of achieving EMU by 1992 , they are now blowing cold on the issue , as they are faced with a ballooning budget deficit of their own , and no longer need French and Community political support for reunification . |
| 22 | it depends , just paid electric and gas |
| 23 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 24 | As a result , much of the work of contemporary assemblies should be viewed in the context of institutions struggling to adapt to massively changed social and world conditions and to impose some check upon the burgeoning executive bureaucracies . |
| 25 | Well it was always said that and Street , were the two best shopping Roads in Nottingham . |
| 26 | However , in the midst of all that confusion , Bendra , the shaman , was calmly intoning Islamic and animist prayers , and making offerings on deck for the Nuang Ase , or " leaving the land " ceremony . |
| 27 | She always loathed naturalistic and realist writing , and locates in Raymond Carver a ‘ grey … glum … discontented acquiescence ’ that could be applied to any number of British anaemic depressives . |
| 28 | They must been seen , their decisions must be seen to reflect the interest and wishes of members currently employed in the section , and as we have always believed industrial and negotiating policy is best made by members at work in the sector who feel the day to day pressures , know what is going on , motion one one one A seeks to ensure that this will happen . |
| 29 | The Spirit 's steering is sharp and super-sensitive , requiring no more than finger-tip control , in stark contrast to the Vauxhall that always feels meaty and firm , yet with a touch of on-centre slack . |
| 30 | On the other hand , from the forties onwards there is likely to be greater stability in the sense that individuals are more settled in their jobs and ambitions and are supported by less rapidly changing domestic and leisure situations . |