Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The illicit drug in commonest use is cannabis and the majority of low or moderate users of this drug rarely experience adverse effects on their health although they may , of course , find themselves at odds with the law . |
| 2 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | After an initial burst of enthusiasm the male slowly loses sexual ability and interest over the years . |
| 4 | The LTTE effectively took total control of the north when the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) pulled out in March 1990 . |
| 5 | Third , how can a speaker or writer successfully communicate certain opinions and attitudes without explicitly putting them into words ? |
| 6 | The Crusade successfully united all women to the right of the Christian Democrats , while the Front is unofficially known to be controlled by the ultra-right ARENA Party . |
| 7 | Zhao was allowed to retain his party membership and would face no further charges , but the decision effectively foreclosed any possibility of his early rehabilitation . |
| 8 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 9 | These later evolved into tribes , and these in turn swelled in size and complexity eventually to become fully-fledged states . |
| 10 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Thinly veiled portraits of actual people in fiction vastly outnumber this type of unlucky strike . |
| 13 | The history of unceasing conflict and division within provides ample evidence of the failure to give that guidance . |
| 14 | Hesitation slowly became determined silence ; the line of her mouth tightened . |
| 15 | Thus while newspaper accounts and other sources ( including this one ) , often talk rather loosely about volcanic ‘ ashes ’ during an eruption , a vulcanologist properly restricts this term only to the smallest particles . |
| 16 | This framework presumably imposes interpretative limits . |
| 17 | Over the longer period changes in population , income etc. shift this relationship in measurable ways . |
| 18 | Some work of the former kind altogether avoids social considerations , and passes out of our present context . |
| 19 | The public grew to hate the licensors , and Parliament eventually uncovered widespread corruption in their operation — fraud , extortion and intimidation had made the whole system a scandal . |
| 20 | In the cinema , another growth medium inter-war , Hollywood money so dominated British film production that the government introduced protectionist policies . |
| 21 | Thus segmentations of the speech wave necessarily exclude some information about the unit under consideration and include information about its neighbours . |
| 22 | Leave it in and twist small sections of hair together to achieve better curl formation . |
| 23 | ‘ We managed to keep a live feel to the record firstly by not using any click tracks ; we recorded drums and acoustic rhythm guitar together to start each song off . |
| 24 | Obviously some men were quite prepared to rely upon their skill and the contract below represented dramatic earnings for Floyd and his partners … |
| 25 | The UFC research money only represents one leg of the dual support system . |
| 26 | Other Acts of Parliament merely grant local authorities powers , which they may choose whether or not to use . |
| 27 | Despite such " official " backing and aspirations , the DTB 's Bund contract only averaged 2,500 contracts per day , about one-tenth of LIFFE 's turnover , in its first few weeks of trading . |
| 28 | Tolkien perhaps found such opinions in a work he knew well , King Alfred the Great 's personal translation of Boethius into Old English . |
| 29 | Th there , there is a , there is a problem erm in that the invitation from Aida in this case to er issue a statement in general conformity erm confers on , on this committee the opportunity only to withhold that statement if there are elements of plan which significantly fall outside for one reason or other the , the terms of the structure plan and the points that have been mentioned in the er in paragraphs two point four to two point nine in , in er your officer 's views er are not such that the er plan is er unable to be afforded that statement of general conformity . |
| 30 | Craig Kendall , 12 , who suffers from a rare bone disease , grew his hair long to stop spiteful playground taunts . |