Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When designing your garden , plan to include shrubs like pyracantha and Berberis darwinii that give flowers all year round and thereby provide food for wildlife . |
| 2 | This reply read : ‘ I duly acknowledge receipt of correspondence sent in respect of children in care and confirm that the mail has now been forwarded accordingly . ’ |
| 3 | Some people lack one colour pigment , and so lose sensitivity to part of the spectrum , usually red or green . |
| 4 | The deviation of the feminine term from the profession into other meanings partly reflects the assumed impossibility that women should occupy these positions , and the ensuing implication that women only occupy head of household positions by virtue of selling sexual services to men , whereas in the acting profession women are much more ‘ equal ’ . |
| 5 | Such ‘ advertorials ’ blur the distinction between editorial content and advertising and so shift control over content to the advertisers and away from news organizations . |
| 6 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
| 7 | I would be interested to hear the thoughts of any other Sigma owners , top flight racers or those who are more concerned with club racing , so put pen to paper . |
| 8 | Caught in these scenes intimately , he merely put foot after foot forward , automatically , without expression . |
| 9 | Although the limb is three-dimensional I will treat it as if it were two-dimensional and only consider position with respect to two axes , the antero-posterior axis which runs across the limb from digit 2 to digit 4 , and the long , or proximo-distal axis , which runs from the shoulder to the tip of the digits . |
| 10 | The insults or stresses which cause the imbalances and so give rise to disease can be of two types : |
| 11 | The best that could be achieved in western Europe was a dispersed defensive strategy which would bog down an offensive , in case of war , and so give time for negotiation . |
| 12 | The combined effect of these problems is currently felt in the Spanish railways ' extremely low commercial speeds which greatly hamper competition with road and air transport . |
| 13 | On Sept. 17 the politburo of the ruling Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ) appointed Hor Nam Hong , hitherto Minister Assistant in charge of monitoring Foreign and Judicial Affairs , as Foreign Minister of the SOC in place of Premier Hun Sen [ see p. 37655 for August government and party appointments ] . |
| 14 | But in the lives of many people today love and marriage , though ideals , swiftly give way to conflict , strain , unhappiness and divorce . |
| 15 | You perhaps get restoration of fishery or enhancement of amenity or enhancement of the quality of the water such that it can be used for a far wider spectrum of requirements than it was before . |
| 16 | Anything goes , of course , so get pen to paper ( or better still , fingers to keyboard ) and write to : Practically Speaking , X or A ? |
| 17 | Anything goes , of course , so get pen to paper ( or better still , fingers to keyboard ) and write to : Practically Speaking , |
| 18 | Anything goes , of course , so get pen to paper ( or better still , fingers to keyboard ) and write to : Practically Speaking , |
| 19 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 20 | Cleveland Aid for Romanian Children has set itself the task of completely renovating a 55-bed long stay hospital in Iasi for children suffering from hepatitis and diabetes . |
| 21 | In Britain in the late 1980s the idea of the Anthropic Principle , a hitherto obscure doctrine in physics , became the subject of conversation at cocktail parties , was probed exhaustively in a 700-page book and was summarized in popular science magazines and television documentaries . |
| 22 | The accession of Coenred ( 716–18 ) ( HE V , 22 ) , son of Cuthwine , son of Leodwald , a representative of a hitherto obscure line of Bernician aristocrats who appears in the Anglian genealogies as a descendant of Ida , set a new pattern . |
| 23 | They had all become part of campus life but the chuguo chao , the ‘ going abroad tide ’ , was probably the most noticeable and was certainly a ‘ hot topic ’ ( translated from the Chinese ‘ redian ’ ) among students . |
| 24 | Detailing for de Cuellar the damage done to Iraq 's civilian population and culture by five days of Allied bombing , Aziz declared , ‘ You personally bear responsibility to history and mankind for the heinous crimes being committed against the noble people of Iraq who are fighting for their freedom . ’ |
| 25 | It is common ground that any power to make the order sought must be found in the Act , since the English courts have no inherent jurisdiction to act in aid of a foreign court and , as a matter of English domestic law , treaties only take effect as part of that law to the extent that they are incorporated by statute , with or without modification . |
| 26 | Of course they not only reflect ageism in society but help to reinforce it and make it acceptable . |
| 27 | The middle classes , especially those in government service , have to move from place to place and so need continuity of curriculum . |
| 28 | Once this happens , the medium is said to not only reduce ammonia/nitrite to nitrate , but go one step further and , by means of the anaerobic bugs , convert nitrate to harmless nitrogen gas . |
| 29 | Eventually these persons might have to face up to a period of crisis , of self-examination , and so achieve ego-identity by route C. However , foreclosure does offer an escape route and an individual might postpone indefinitely any real self-examination by clinging rigidly to his [ or her ] beliefs and values ( route D ) . |
| 30 | but he 's in the U.S.A. at the moment and we only have Blakelock on duty . |