Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap . |
| 2 | When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms . |
| 3 | Because the national curriculum can not be properly taught without new textbooks , we will earmark funds for class and library books . |
| 4 | Even if a wife were expressly to agree to sexual intercourse on demand , such a promise would not in English law be contractually binding upon her . |
| 5 | Also in February he was discussing ideas for a Botticelli ballet and for a Debussy ballet ; these eventually coalesced into one idea , Primavera . |
| 6 | But by the same logic they can not accept the combination of a press controlled by a handful of publishers , overwhelmingly biased in one direction , and impartial , balanced broadcasting . |
| 7 | However , sensitivity to water movements is most developed in underwater vertebrates . |
| 8 | Killifish can be loosely placed into two categories : top spawners and bottom spawners . |
| 9 | The ornaments recovered from Neolithic cemeteries in the Rhine and Danube basins show that the shells most favoured for personal adornment were those of the mussel Spondylus gaederopus from which were fashioned necklaces , pendants and bracelets . |
| 10 | The last has for a long time been the argument most favoured by political theorists . |
| 11 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 12 | So far as concerns the mental state of the owner ( did he consent ? ) , the Act of 1968 expressly refers to such consent when it is a material factor : see sections 2(1) ( b ) , 11(1) , 12(1) and 13 . |
| 13 | However , apart from references to this by the local residents , an internal memorandum from the borough engineer dated 26 January 1983 expressly refers to 24-hour operation . |
| 14 | He looked at his master rather anxiously as he spoke , and Cornelius Fennell , catching that warning eye , perversely asked for another piece . |
| 15 | Most LEAs reported that they had a curriculum policy or were developing one ; they consulted widely including with governing bodies ; they now recognised the importance of ‘ breadth ’ and ‘ balance ’ , and the need for relevance of the school curriculum to the world outside . |
| 16 | A bathroom was perhaps the item most prized by working class housewives after World War I , and there is ample evidence of wives planning moves up the housing hierarchy until one was acquired . |
| 17 | Drawing is rarely taught in primary schools . |
| 18 | But James 's great houses are rarely inhabited by ancestral families : Lord Mark is an exception , and Lord Warburton offers to move from Lockleigh if Isabel ( however mistakenly ) argues damp from its moat ; in any event , his family 's hold on the house is so frail that his sisters seem no more than faded chintz figures among the faded chintz of their drawing-room . |
| 19 | But this common-carrier principle has produced little such trade because negotiations were soon bogged down in technical committees full of engineers from the very monopolies that stood most to lose from cross-border competition . |
| 20 | Above this zone the moisture content decreases upward to a point where the continuous film of moisture eventually separates into discrete droplets . |
| 21 | In which case , the absence of random assignment , to use Lieberson 's rendering of the problem , presents special difficulties if " there is reason to believe that the subjects thereby placed in each condition differ in other ways that themselves have a bearing on the outcome of interest to the researcher " . |
| 22 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 23 | Sadly the answer " No " is rarely given to this question and because of this a great many releases go out which are of marginal interest to the recipients . |
| 24 | Seventeen trains a day , mostly filled with such meat , left Birkenhead Station . |
| 25 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 26 | Even psychoanalysis , the field most criticized by other areas of psychology for its methodological irregularities , claims scientific credibility from its set rules of data collection and interpretation , and its large body of clinical material . |
| 27 | All were prescribed as painkillers , with both Zomax and Opren widely prescribed for arthritic patients . |
| 28 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 29 | The technology was invented in the early 1920s by Anton Flettner , a German naval engineer , and has since fallen into undeserved oblivion . |
| 30 | The industrial relations literature has long noted that high levels of membership are ‘ predominantly sustained by informal group pressures from workmates ’ ( Brown and Wadhwani , 1990 , p. 14 ) . |