Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Alright , but given time we will eventually build up that skill base again .
2 Finance ministers Theo Waigel of Germany and Michel Sapin of France said after talks in Bonn that close co-operation between their two countries had successfully fended off speculative attacks on the franc .
3 However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police .
4 It comes with prostration , after several days and is most often found in patients of poor vitality , rather broken down weak constitutions who are subject to catarrhal illnesses ; most often needed in the elderly and in young infants .
5 Social elitism , it is frequently asserted , effectively squeezes out working-class interests .
6 Leaving Tarby and Brucie to their jovial banter , I eventually sought out some celebrities .
7 the , the more you argue for this economy , and the more you argue no this is , this really is how the peasant felt and he that the peasant really erm did n't have any ideas of changing society at that of the landlord system the more I assume that one would support this kind of rent reduction , interest rate reduction campaign which allows you to slowly build up that mobilization which is necessary .
8 She is past the menopause and she and Abraham have long since given up sexual intercourse .
9 Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning .
10 He lay on the examination couch , and his left cheek was badly grazed down one side .
11 We have successfully carried out this procedure in 18 patients .
12 went missing for about four hours and when it eventually bolted out this hole it run straight up him and curled up to him .
13 As a result of these expectations , funds flow from short-term markets to long-term markets , thereby driving down long-term interest rates .
14 If you do so , you will not only build up more savings for your retirement but you also enjoy full tax relief on these contributions .
15 While in talks with his own advisers the president did not necessarily rule out armed action at some later date , he vetoed a CIA plan to " topple Nasser " .
16 Now that does not entirely rule out any possibility of the new settlement within the Selby area , as er Mr has implied .
17 And can we entirely rule out topless by-laws , or the topless watchdog committee ( with the function of monitoring the behavioural effects of toplessness ) ?
18 I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects .
19 Rather than pandering to these fading fans ( and perhaps building up false expectations ) , the good Dr David Marsh has opted for the cattle-prod technique beloved of third division no-hopers .
20 Neither have much influence over those countries most concerned with getting what they can from the colder world of sauve qui peut .
21 Industry watchers say IBM has waited too long to roll-out the AIX database and predict it will only shore up dedicated IBM mainframe clients — users with RS/6000s running Sybase Inc and Oracle Corp databases are unlikely candidates , the company admits .
22 Even if the Z88 is asleep , it will wake every minute or so to carry out various housekeeping tasks ( checking the alarms , for example ) .
23 ‘ As the other dressers have vanished , you 'd better stay up this end and make yourself very visible .
24 The group are also computer buffs on a mission to not only push out musical frontiers but combine the whole thing into a total multi-media package .
25 In attracting the fashionable trade the industry was gaining friends who were socially and politically powerful and it was also nicely building up box-office takings for , whilst the better sort of customers attended less often than the workers , they paid considerably more when they did come .
26 Colour analyst/hairdresser Mrs Myra Addison and photographer Mrs Ann Simmons together make up Beautiful Images , a venture set up in Darlington 15 months ago : and they came out tops with stunning portraits in competitions organised by the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Master Photographers ' Association .
27 Buffalo , zebra , wildebeest , topi , and Thomson 's gazelle live together in huge groups which together make up some 90% of the total weight of mammals living on the Serengeti .
28 Coastal cetaceans not only pick up chlorinated hydrocarbons , but also accumulate other industrial pollutants such as heavy metals .
29 ‘ However shallow injection is best suited to getting rid of dirty water because the material has to be liquid enough to flow down narrow tubes . ’
30 Wandering around the cavernous warehouse that contains the Neighbours sets in Nunawading , Melbourne , she fondly points out various props which have all played a part in shaping the history of Ramsay Street .
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