Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the history of the church was being researched a footnote in an 18th century volume identified a drawing of some stained-glass panels which had long since fallen into disrepair and had been replaced by plain lights . |
| 2 | Yes , crushed apple was a very good medicine when properly blended with glucose and sterile milk for small stomachs . |
| 3 | Then there are those , predominantly male workers , who are effectively coerced into retirement and sometimes early retirement by poor working conditions , ill-health , redundancy and unemployment ( Walker , 1985b ; Walker and Taylor , 1991 ) . |
| 4 | The authority of the Board Schools ( otherwise known as the ‘ Bored Schools ’ ) was widely regarded as suspect and frail . |
| 5 | While Raima 's database — now called the Raima Data Manager , but previously known as Db-Vista — is one of the least widely publicised of PC and Unix databases , it has carved out a niche for itself amongst C programmers . |
| 6 | I 'd rather stay with mother and become a real old maid . |
| 7 | According to the OECD survey , the privatization programme involved little change in management or improvement in efficiency . |
| 8 | He voiced their torment at knowing their children would be medically examined without consent and without any familiar face being present . |
| 9 | The increasing collection of different species of trees and plants , skilfully grouped by season or by collections of single types of trees , and designed in glades , avenues , and drives caused the eventual expansion of the arboretum to 600 acres . |
| 10 | What they can provide , if they successfully attach to money or property which is about to be disposed of , is security for the sum sued for together with interest and expenses . |
| 11 | With reference to your article on the inconsistencies in the Serpell report ( This Week , 27 January , p 220 ) the town of Keith is mostly surrounded by farmland and is certainly not in the middle of a peat bog ( Scottish or otherwise ) . |
| 12 | Part of the supportive service for export participation is export knowledge and a well established export department properly educated in export and marketing procedures . |
| 13 | Now near retirement after a long career in product development , Mr Dulude can presumably act without fear or favour . |
| 14 | Mrs Ainsworth 's home was lavishly decorated with tinsel and holly , rows of drinks stood on the sideboard and the rich aroma of turkey and sage and onion sag wafted from the kitchen . |
| 15 | It is truly amazing that in a civilized country with a government staunchly committed to law and order , or so they say , that the tax payer , you Mr President , you fellow delegates , me , and my members , our members , are left to pick up a bill amounting to millions of pounds as a result of actions by certain employers , which are , without doubt , criminal , but not against the law . |
| 16 | Irish Short Stories selected by David Marcus ( Sceptre , £6.99 ) — A collection rich as Guinness and vastly varied in mood and style — from sparkling blarney to dark epic . |
| 17 | Although he was still , of course , a professional of the highest class , he was now in his seventies and much ravaged by arthritis and other ailments . |
| 18 | I walk through the lounge thinking something looks wrong somehow , then stop and stand still where the lounge opens out into the main terminal building , suddenly filled with horror and confusion ; it 's all too small and not shaped right ! |
| 19 | Each day was blessed with the same strangely cool weather , until one evening the clear sky suddenly filled with haze and the new moon faded out of sight as though sailing out of orbit into oblivion . |
| 20 | I was suddenly filled with fear and doubt . |
| 21 | A machine without human guidance is inflexible and highly limited in recognition and learning facilities . |
| 22 | Switzerland has long relied on Italian and Spanish workers . |
| 23 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 24 | Religious fundamentalism does not only exist within Christianity but also in other religions , especially those based on a scripture . |
| 25 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 26 | In general the never-married elderly make greater use of statutory services including institutional care than others of the same age , so change in marriage and fertility patterns pointed out by Timaeus may have important implications for future service use . |
| 27 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |
| 28 | It is also believed that the no-OSF/1 decision , made in the midst of the recent flurry of reorganisations that have left DEC somewhat muddled , was made — perhaps unilaterally — by Stone whose heart apparently belongs to Alpha and that its reversal is something of an internally staged palace revolt . |
| 29 | you know , so to go before hand and fetch her here back with us |
| 30 | Erm at that erm meeting members did er bring up a number of points er , the comments and questions which have been put to the Environment Trust and the answers to them are there on page ninety five under progress to date and , and on onto page ninety six er , the main ones really are the question as to whether er , any rented housing could be provided erm , in the scheme is dealt with there the Environment Trust only develop for sale or for equity share er , they 're not a housing association , they 're a charitable body erm so they did n't feel that they were able to er , take on the role of er , provided rented housing in the scheme . |