Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He entirely lacks financial and business experience . |
| 2 | No one would say that the need only becomes immediate when rain is imminent ; the need is immediate from the start because rain is certain to fall some time . |
| 3 | The work which can be done is any work a solicitor normally does other than representation in a court or tribunal . |
| 4 | It is a notable achievement , especially for a left-wing ‘ class-firster ’ ; but Ms Magas understands that in places like ex-Yugoslavia — and perhaps not only there — nation still matters more than class . |
| 5 | Lamb 's achievement is the more impressive in that he hardly ever bats higher than No. 4 . |
| 6 | Cooperation seems to be less of an immediate necessity with market-determined exchange rates , but coordination of national policies still seems desirable if conflict and economic stagnation are to be avoided in the long run . |
| 7 | For heavy goods , especially of timber and stone , it still seems likely that water transport , by river and sea and a little by canal , was cheaper and more expeditious than long-distance travel by road — and that there was sense as well as sentiment , for example , in the devotion the Norman builders showed in England for their native stone from Caen . |
| 8 | The Spirit 's steering is sharp and super-sensitive , requiring no more than finger-tip control , in stark contrast to the Vauxhall that always feels meaty and firm , yet with a touch of on-centre slack . |
| 9 | Nation usually speaks louder than ideology ; as a result , the generally accepted notions of government and opposition break down . |
| 10 | He is a very religious figure , who is innocent and imaginative , he always remains calm and collective . |
| 11 | The land itself rapidly becomes degraded and land in receipt of drainage from these slopes is also adversely affected . |
| 12 | The department also has extensive and state of the art facilities for modern investigations and diagnostic veterinary pathology . |
| 13 | It also seems likely that unemployment and other social problems contributed further to the view that Labour offered the only alternative to the failures of capitalism — no matter how illusory that viewpoint may have been . |
| 14 | No doubt both tendencies arose in part because the voters themselves became more strongly partisan at that time ; but it also seems likely that television became more strictly impartial ( thereby offending both Labour and Conservative partisans more ) while the press became more stridently partisan ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 15 | The virtue of this control/constraint approach is that while laying due emphasis on the significance of management power , it also makes clear that management control is not an absolute . |
| 16 | The reforms aim to cut the bill by making more people pay bigger contributions towards civil legal aid , which mainly covers matrimonial and compensation cases . |
| 17 | It now looks likely that pension schemes will only have to backdate any equalisation of benefits between men and women to those in service on or after 17 May 1990 . |
| 18 | The electronics industry , perhaps more than any other , often requires adapted or custom built equipment to meet specialised needs . |
| 19 | Paradoxically , LP often fares better than SP under these conditions because the noise-bar interference on the picture tends to be less for LP . |
| 20 | Philip 's comments provide an ironic commentary on other ( younger ? ) readers who identify strongly with the B. A. He suggests the possibility of using the text to bolster the male reader 's own claims to superhuman strength even as he simultaneously dismisses this as fantasy . |
| 21 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 22 | These have dramatically altered and of course improved archaeologists ' knowledge about the duration of various episodes within pre-history , and it now seems possible that archaeology , and particularly prehistoric archaeology , will eventually have a dated historical sequence as clear as that used by historians . |
| 23 | Many say that the donkeys from Poitou in France are particularly suitable for siring mules , perhaps because they are particularly large , but it now seems doubtful that size is of any special virtue in obtaining the hybrid . |
| 24 | Olivine typically settles faster than plagioclase because of its greater density contrast with basaltic magma , so a layer of plagioclase is left behind ( Fig.1 ) . |
| 25 | Nowell , a solicitor , and his wife Penny have taken thirty years to develop the lovely garden at Baubles which now boasts ornamental and wildlife ponds and a wide variety of trees , shrubs , a tennis court and a swimming pool . |
| 26 | Since age at first marriage or union not only indirectly affects maternal and child health but can be considered as one of the underlying causes or conditions that affect it , this topic will be examined first . |
| 27 | Consequently as T decreases ΔG M eventually becomes positive and phase separation takes place . |
| 28 | Communicating orally involves more than reading or talking : gesture , posture , movements may all be intrinsic to it . |
| 29 | Under the uniform business rate , the rate in the pound that businesses pay stays in line with inflation and never rises faster than inflation . |
| 30 | It therefore seems conceivable that susceptibility to both type I and type II diabetes is determined during gestation or infancy in response to nutrition , and research should respond with a new focus on early events . |