Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We would also like to record publicly our overwhelming sense of gratitude to all the hospital staff who did so much to save Jo 's life , skilfully repair the dreadful injuries and to effect a good measure of rehabilitation . |
2 | But they are much more akin to many modern skyscrapers : they rather symbolize the social ambitions of their makers — and the comparative difficulty of self-expression on an ample scale in the crowded streets of a medieval city . |
3 | Isolated , earning low wages , they mostly lose the statutory benefits which it has taken most of the century to establish — sick pay , paid holdiay , paid maternity leave , national insurance and redundancy notice and compensaiton . |
4 | To add to this gloomy picture of girls lagging behind boys at the top attainment levels in this country are the results of national mathematics competitions , where year after year boys overwhelmingly gain the top scores . |
5 | But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers . |
6 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
7 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
8 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
9 | Now , if you make a cup very deep and turn the sides over , you eventually make a lensless pinhole camera . |
10 | Then vigorously rub the right hand into your left elbow saying that you are going to rub the coin away . |
11 | His feet wearily repeat the old pattern , dragging him round the dance floor in a last slow spin . |
12 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
13 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
14 | Further research is required if we are to understand better the process of early retirement in a variety of circumstances and thereby build a sounder basis for policy . |
15 | Center Parcs have done their market research — they know that their target market want the healthy Nineties lifestyle and duly provide a huge sports hall . |
16 | Since buyers and sellers rarely want the same paper , the banker in the middle usually dips into his bag of swaps and options to transform one side of the deal into something more conventional . |
17 | Glass bevels , placed throughout the composition , poignantly suggest the shattered debris from a synagogue and shop windows . |
18 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
19 | Unless they did so , he warned , he would abandon the bipartisan sprit of the negotiations and publicly denounce them ; he also threatened to veto all spending bills and thereby trigger the automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts . |
20 | and nervously steer the wobbling steels |
21 | A little really does go a long way , so apply sparingly , by dotting on minute amounts and rubbing in well — only re-apply every three hours or so . |
22 | Festive food should be fun as well as tasty , so pick a few items of specialist kitchen equipment and tableware to add the finishing touches to your yuletide table spread . |
23 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
24 | There we go ( Note that , in most cases , the three kinds of sentences only favour the three kinds of interpretation . ) |
25 | The door was flung wide , and inside lay a dark cave . |
26 | The walk is expected to last all day so bring a packed lunch . |
27 | The evidence he has collected shows that working people of the last century were able to hold an image of society from their own experience and so articulate a political consciousness . |
28 | Undoubtedly , the fact that both mothers and daughters are able to have babies and so enact a continuing cycle makes their dilemma of finding a harmonious balance difficult . |
29 | This will , of course , only introduce a new level of complexity . |
30 | The experiments just mentioned not only introduce a much-needed control procedure but they also extend the generality of the effect . |