Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporate-strategy literature rarely works through such issues carefully and this can be especially important when considering global strategies . |
| 2 | Above this zone the moisture content decreases upward to a point where the continuous film of moisture eventually separates into discrete droplets . |
| 3 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 4 | The great advantage over owning a holiday home in the normal way is that the buyer only pays for one week instead of fifty-two . |
| 5 | The contrastive nature of linguistic categories is clear in cases where the category label contains two words : for example a transitive verb obviously contrasts with other types of verb ( intransitive verbs , linking verbs , etc ) . |
| 6 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 7 | The IBOA fundamentally disagrees with this course of action as the clarification document which resulted from the Labour Court Recommendation 13601 clearly indicates times for opening from 10.00a.m. to 4.00p.m. uninterrupted with one late opening day . |
| 8 | ‘ To my mind , ’ she wrote , ‘ he has all the qualities of a leading man that the British film industry badly needs at this juncture : youth , good looks , a photogenic face , obviously alert intelligence and a trick of getting the maximum effect with the minimum of fuss . ’ |
| 9 | Robert , the mind literally boggles at those distances mine does , anyway . |
| 10 | The validity of a local search result only lasts for two months , and if there is delay in finding a buyer , the search may be extended under the Local Search Validation Insurance Scheme . |
| 11 | Tolkien tried the experiment in Treebeard 's farewell , and maybe he failed ; though one might say that the image behind the phrase works well for Fangorn , whose sense of ultimate loss naturally centres on felled trees and barren ground . |
| 12 | Similarly , The Prelude constantly alludes to classical epic and in particular to Paradise Lost , though how conscious an intention of the poet this was is debatable . |
| 13 | With effect from 1 January 1993 this rule only applies to private customers . |
| 14 | Given this data base the research perforce aims at conceptual rather than theoretical generalisation . |
| 15 | As the mind progressively clears in early recovery , the sense of guilt and remorse can be so powerful that the sufferer returns to the substance or process of addiction as the only known and practised method of suppressing unpleasant feelings . |
| 16 | The second characteristic of the type of statements given above is that they are stereotyped : the social argument against rural primary school closure generally consists of some or all of the following assertions : |
| 17 | Similar research elsewhere leads to better overall outcome in the long term than does hospital admission . |
| 18 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 19 | An insecticide soon deals with all that . |
| 20 | Hansford still plays at 70 and has no plans to retire . |
| 21 | It should never be taken hastily or immediately a crisis arises in the life of an elderly person , such as bereavement or a sudden illness or depression , for grief usually passes to some extent after a period of supported mourning . |
| 22 | At the risk of indelicacy , one would suggest that such a condition usually accounts for some five or six days of inactivity . |
| 23 | The MEC usually meets for 1½–2 hrs and may discuss or note changes to around 50 student cases . |
| 24 | The Native people acknowledged the apology , but made it clear that cultural oppression still prevails in many parts of North America . |
| 25 | Mr Li 's future still depends on public amnesia about the massacre . |
| 26 | Due to the way the data is stored , the dimensioning on the drawing usually creates between two and three times as many entities as are used in the original model . |
| 27 | Local folk religion still continues in some forms . |
| 28 | Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is . |
| 29 | Cocaine usually comes into this country in the form of cocaine hydrochloride . |
| 30 | The department also offers in this programme a number of courses in Ancient Near Eastern Religions . |