Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some early skinheads went awry & wore tie-dyed granddad vests . |
| 2 | Twins are more likely to be born to older mothers who already have several children ; they are likely to be born prematurely and/or have difficult births . |
| 3 | Restrict purchases to fuel and oil only or choose full service |
| 4 | ‘ Better than singing boastful tunes like ‘ Rule Britannia ’ as though you Brits were n't beaten hollow by us poor rebels , ’ was her riposte to that . |
| 5 | If you want the whole rumbustious , arrogant , self-satisfied , smug , righteous , courageous , opinionated , dedicated , class-ridden , adventure-seeking , patriotic life of an era in full technicolour , you can do no better than collect Victorian bindings . |
| 6 | We can do better than taking simple means of three , however . |
| 7 | And obviously that adds certain constraints to sort of erm income . |
| 8 | However , as we shall see , it is necessary to recognise several ‘ lesser ’ semantic roles besides the central one of being a semantic constituent , so that to deny semantic constituency to an element is not necessarily to deny it any semantic role whatsoever : the ‘ negative emotive force ’ can , in fact , be accommodated . |
| 9 | It invites the contrast to be made on the particular process , so that objectified social consciousness can be compared with non-objectified , and social representations can be contrasted with those commonsensical beliefs which are not social representations . |
| 10 | In our clinic we have constructed a centile graph for percentage ideal or desirable bodyweight based on medium frame size , so that knowing actual weight and height we can derive the percentage ideal bodyweight at a glance without calculation ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 11 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |
| 12 | Stubbs cites many other examples of how written language may involve structural ambiguity so that making grammatical sense of it depends on context and the knowledge the reader brings to the text ( e.g. ibid. p. 59 ) . |
| 13 | But it was n't just Tyson 's playing credentials and Satriani 's say so that impressed original members Dan Arlie and Eric Valentine . |
| 14 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 15 | 167 ) says that the Corinthians despised craftsmen less than did other Greeks ( note the negative formulation ) and a recent survey of Corinthian territory confirms the exceptional variety of goods manufactured there . |
| 16 | Upon taking up his new post , he discovered that the bearings were not strong enough and put great strains upon the axles which broke regularly . |
| 17 | During the first excitation interval ( i.e. the time between first and second step commands ) the motor must move far enough and attain sufficient velocity to ensure that synchronism with the step commands is maintained when the excitation changes from BC to CD . |
| 18 | After a long running row with the locals , the diocese has decided enough is enough and plan legal action . |
| 19 | He has wrapped up warmly and wears good walking boots , old and reliable . |
| 20 | The Whitby line , another which has been the subject of closure worries , will serve shoppers better and has new connections at Grosmont for the North York Moors Railway . |
| 21 | They completed the epic length ‘ The Daleks ’ Master Plan' story as a joint endeavour early in 1966 , but thereafter they expressed a wish to branch outwards and explore new design horizons . |
| 22 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 23 | It often involves looking at problems afresh and giving serious consideration to ideas which have traditionally been regarded as impossible or is practicable . |
| 24 | I went back to it carefully , stroking it gently and making shushing noises with my mouth . |
| 25 | However , conductors of each group would meet daily and discuss minor adjustments to the programmes . |
| 26 | Layers of organic muds of swamp origin will be interspersed with wedge-shaped horizons of marine sediments thinning landwards and representing marine advance , however this may have been caused , levees of coarser sediment will follow the courses of former distributaries , while fanshaped spreads of such material will mark the sites of levee breaches . |
| 27 | In polyethylene crystallites , the close packing achieved by the chains allows the van der Waals forces to act co-operatively and provide additional stability to the crystallite . |
| 28 | UVB rays cause visible burning , but UVA penetrate deeper and cause long-term damage . |
| 29 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 30 | If he failed to turn up , the Commissioner had the power to hear the plaintiff 's case only and give immediate judgement on it . |