Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images . |
| 2 | Local councils can get a warrent to tow away illegally parked caravans . |
| 3 | Clear-cut quinine resistance emerged in Asia in the early 1980s when this drug became more widely used , even though quinine has the shortest half-life of all antimalarials and is not given prophylactically . |
| 4 | The unions flourished , gaining over 4 million more members by 1945 , and collective bargaining became more widely accepted . |
| 5 | Your steel-mesh underflesh has n't quite knitted properly . |
| 6 | For example , if an authority has granted planning permission to A but building has not yet started , B might be able to get the permission revoked . |
| 7 | Hitachi was one of six Japanese companies invited to invest in Kaleida ( CI No 1,931 ) , and of the other five , only Toshiba Corp has so far stuck its head above the parapet with an agreement with Apple to license Kaleida technology and use it in jointly developed products ; others invited to join were Matsushita Electric Industrial Co , Sharp Corp , Sony Corp and NEC Corp . |
| 8 | These are useless for feeding — but the time for feeding has long since passed . |
| 9 | British Rail has not yet put an investment proposition to the Department for the west coast main line . |
| 10 | The protestant Christian has too quickly jumped to the conclusion that Catholicism regards the Holy Communion service as a work of salvation whereby the priest offers afresh the offering of Christ and pleads for salvation . |
| 11 | But the story has only just begun . |
| 12 | Yet aposematic coloration has not always evolved among kin-grouped prey and we need to identify the variables that are of evolutionary importance . |
| 13 | The most obvious reason for this is that neuro-science has not yet reached the point where it is possible to describe language as a direct manifestation of underlying physiological of neurological states . |
| 14 | Young babies , whose sensitivity to temperature change has not yet developed , are also particularly at risk . |
| 15 | This caution is all the more necessary when we realize that there are varieties in which this change has not yet taken place , more than three centuries later , and that there are yet other varieties in which different changes have taken place . |
| 16 | Technological change has not only brought about a drastic decline in the number of farm workers , but has fundamentally altered the nature of the work which they now perform . |
| 17 | Thirdly , concern about the supposed negative consequences of benefit ‘ dependency ’ in creating an ‘ underclass ’ of individuals and families who have no self-motivation has very much focused on lone-parent families ( Field , 1989 ; Murray , 1990 ) . |
| 18 | Our Gas Turbines division has now firmly established a world centre of excellence in the repair and overhaul of gas generators in Aberdeen . |
| 19 | erm Novelists in this country , it seems to me , are drawn from a much narrower social band , and you can not have this ethnic richness , this melting pot richness , erm that American fiction has very clearly demonstrated I think since the Second World War . |
| 20 | But to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear yours , to be mingling identities with you as it were , — the vision-wearing fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but hope never dared whisper a promise . |
| 21 | To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’ |
| 22 | For these reasons I conclude that as a matter of interpretation the powers of the Director do not cease , as regards the questioning of the person under investigation , when he is charged ; that the principle of common sense , expressed in the maxim generalia specialibus non derogant , entails that the general provisions of the Code yield to the particular provisions of the Act of 1987 in cases to which that Act applies ; and that neither history nor logic demands that any qualification of what Parliament has so clearly enacted ought to be implied . |
| 23 | ‘ My hour has not yet come ’ ( John 2.3–4 ) . |
| 24 | Ironically , the Somerset bowling has n't quite lived up to the predictions . |
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| 28 | The recession has also clearly produced forced sales of businesses as well as more measured ones . |
| 29 | One only has to note the impressive erudition manipulated by the likes of Borges , Cortázar , Carpentier or Fuentes or the intertextual references that abound in the new narrative to realize that the Spanish-American writer has long since ceased to be a provincial and is now very much a citizen of the world . |
| 30 | My mum has n't even noticed yet . |