Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 2 | Jack walked slowly back up the stairs numb and shivering . |
| 3 | More importantly , both groups wittily peel back the scabs of modern pop until they form into mottled bruises . |
| 4 | Stones and earth ( weathered rocks ) slowly slip down the slopes , by soil creep , into the channels . |
| 5 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 6 | When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design . |
| 7 | It has more than fulfilled its founding fathers ' two objectives : to rebuild the economy of a shattered Europe , and to bury the hatchet between France and Germany and so bind together the nations of Europe that they would never go to war again . |
| 8 | A clearer knowledge of this remarkable coincidence will perhaps explain why the signs for these two grammatical forms fall into synapsis later on . |
| 9 | If the uplands and woodlands were apparently settled by the twelfth century , other colonisation probably merely filled in the gaps . |
| 10 | During the past two days we have heard a vast number of contributions and I pay tribute to the common sense and foresight of Labour Members who have not only pointed out the inequalities of the system that is still in being but the pitfalls that we see ahead of us . |
| 11 | But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future . |
| 12 | If you feel it will be difficult to stand back sufficiently to carry out the sorts of procedures we have discussed in this chapter , then it may be best to avoid them . |
| 13 | The first merely points out the difficulties with scepticism ; the internalist would accept this and say that these difficulties have to be faced and not ignored . |
| 14 | Apply cuticle remover all round the nail and gently push down the cuticles with a rubber-tipped hoof stick , a cotton bud , or cotton wool wrapped round an orange stick . |
| 15 | But the media only pick out the failures , because that 's what we as readers want to read . |
| 16 | I did n't need to use any weights as the skeins were heavy enough to pull out the kinks . |
| 17 | Television , especially highlights both the strengths and defects of the modern player , and the papers continue the process of daily analysing players and teams . |
| 18 | These southern burials are clearly very different from the coordinated northern cemetery , obviously occurring once the suburbs themselves were virtually derelict . |
| 19 | It is difficult enough to find out the features that matter , even more difficult to assess them and almost impossible to see how they fit together . |
| 20 | He had foolishly picked up the trolleys from a nearby supermarket and threw them . |
| 21 | It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox . |
| 22 | The researchers have therefore not only separated out the effects of gluons from those due to quarks , but have also learned something about the still little understood way in which these building blocks turn into conventional particles . |
| 23 | The claims so built up the expectations for ZETA after the first conference that the subsequent news was perceived as ‘ failure ’ . |
| 24 | The legislature creates a rather abstract mandate and an agency to implement it , while only defining explicitly the offences which give rise to prosecution . |
| 25 | If you read again the sections covered by the mnemonic MACRO , you will appreciate that the best effects are produced when you do not merely soak up the words of the textbook author , like some print-absorbing sponge . |
| 26 | However , it is generally easy enough to sort out the ones that do and the ones that aim to provide police-based fantasy . |
| 27 | With the breakdown of the artificial barrier which has for too long divided an academic education from vocational one , there are opportunities for all — provided you 're intelligent enough to sort out the colleges from the universities from the polytechnics that is . |
| 28 | They have little experience of the style of presentation in higher courts ‘ and it matters ’ and whilst a number of solicitors are extremely good others ‘ let themselves down in court ’ and in doing so let down the solicitors ' branch of the profession as a whole . |
| 29 | Part of the trouble lay in the German command 's ruthless system of keeping divisions in the line over lengthy periods , constantly topping up the losses with new replacements . |
| 30 | But it was still unreal when he reached out and , bending over her , gently pushed back the wisps of hair that had loosened from beneath her headband . |