Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emerson rejects convention and in doing so stands for all the values that Forster believed to be most important — authenticity and truth . |
| 2 | For the classical foundationalist programme of starting from one 's own case and moving outwards suffers from all the radical defects which face the solipsist 's attempt to set up a language in which to describe the experiences which form his subject matter . |
| 3 | It should be noted that he remarks that ‘ people ’ do not want to see a black face , not that he personally objects to such a sight . |
| 4 | Him , it , this , this : this is the body he primes and mortifies and shrewdly inspects in all the rippling funhouse mirrors of Portugal . |
| 5 | Hurst cites the case of a slime mould in which , during sex , a gene within a little device called a mitochondrion causes its owner to fuse with mitochondria from the other parent and thus spreads to all the mitochrondria in the offspring . |
| 6 | Hot water cylinder must be a special design ( steel or copper ) to cope with the pressure and normally comes with all the necessary safety devices |
| 7 | In the garden Shaw 's meagre writing hut still stands with all the innocent technology of his art — his toothbrush , thermometer , alarm clock , narrow bed . |
| 8 | As my right hon. Friend prepares himself for the important meeting with President Yeltsin later this week in London , will he take the opportunity of seeing what can be done to deal with the massive threat which still exists from all the different independent Russian states ? |
| 9 | That the leopard still survives across such a wide range is due not only to its remarkable gifts of concealment but also to its secretive lifestyle . |
| 10 | The law enacted in January 1957 still governs in 1990 the operations of the agency . |
| 11 | But in fact Faburden probably lies behind all the movements , the Credo being only the plainest and simplest example . |
| 12 | But a context normally also acts in such a way as to cause a single sense , from among those associated with any ambiguous word form , to become operative . |
| 13 | The Institute also deals with all the serological tests for syphilis for the whole of Denmark and they have a ‘ Wasserman ’ file , reminiscent of 1984 , in which the results of all such tests performed since 1920 are kept . |
| 14 | However , the analysis also draws on all the situations we observed . |
| 15 | I ca n't imagine that I am alone with this problem — stretching a canvas imperfectly seems like such an easy mistake to make . |
| 16 | Moreover , it also follows from such a substitution amounting to a refusal that the provisions relating to the grounds on which an application for a renewal of a licence can be refused ( s. 17(2) ) , and the right of appeal against such a refusal are applicable ( s.17(4) ) . |
| 17 | A tubular form is much more effective and eventually worms with such a shape appeared . |
| 18 | A technique she often uses after such an activity is to ask the pupils to write about what they have learned . |
| 19 | A word of caution should be given here : it is all too easy to talk about such things as ‘ Australian English ’ , and ignore the great variety that inevitably exists within such a large community of speakers . |
| 20 | Private enterprise now accounts for half the economy and is expanding by 25% a year . |
| 21 | It simply refers to all the things the retailer does to look after the customers — the things that make them enjoy visiting that shop or store . |
| 22 | It here plunges for half a mile over massive limestone steps in a wide channel flanked by trees : a beautiful sight , always impressive and , in times of spate , awesome . |
| 23 | The amorphous or molten polymer is a conglomeration of badly packed interlacing chains and the extra empty space caused by this random molecular arrangement is called the free volume which essentially consists of all the holes in the matrix . |
| 24 | The visual impact of materials never fails to illicit a response if it is well chosen . |