Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we need to do is steal his thunder in some way so that he realises how pointless it would be to write a story or even make any of those veiled suggestions that reporters of his ilk seem to be so good at . ’ |
| 2 | That we will not during the period of 45 consecutive days immediately following the date of this letter enter into discussions with any other person relating to the disposal of our respective interest in the Shares unless you withdraw from negotiations for such purchase or unreasonably delay such negotiations ; and |
| 3 | Do you have a friendly dog , and an hour or so spare each week ? |
| 4 | A sense of release is created by such public demonstrations of grief that clearly triggers many people into dealing with their feelings . |
| 5 | The hexagonal cells , however , are built with a precision and uniformity that fully matches those of the honey bee . |
| 6 | Interestingly , it is the semantic anomaly that probably makes this kind of joke far easier to translate from English into another language than the jokes which depend on sound-play or polysemy . |
| 7 | Bruner ( 1962 , p. 18 ) has used the term ‘ effective surprise ’ to describe the feeling of pleasure that often accompanies such realizations . |
| 8 | " Depression " is a convenient portmanteau condition that frequently satisfies this purpose . |
| 9 | under modern capitalist conditions there is no one central condition that causally determines all other conditions on a base-superstructure or primary-secondary manner . |
| 10 | More surprising , to me , about the present sorry situation , is how the old regimes managed to get away for so long with presiding over such a ragbag and still getting all that advertising ! |
| 11 | You pass the chosen card and then finger another as if you feel it is going to be the right one and then say ‘ How much do you bet me that the next card I turn over is the chosen one ? ’ |
| 12 | Groups have multiple goals , are more enduring than a coalition and usually involve more members . |
| 13 | In a normal decay the photon and the nucleus share the energy release Q , so that the photon energy is less than Q. Similarly , when a photon is absorbed in the reverse process the nucleus recoils to take up the photon momentum and so acquires some kinetic energy . |
| 14 | It guarantees than you will at least double your speed and yet retain much more . |
| 15 | He reduced speed and carefully wiped each of his own damp hands on his coat . |
| 16 | With modern designs , the correct method is to make the descent with some forward speed and then use this speed to flare like an aircraft , still holding a negative pitch setting ( Fig. 8.3 ) . |
| 17 | Reminding Management of diurnal enuresis has been attempted with initially asking the parent to remind the child regularly when to go to the lavatory and gradually pass that responsibility on to the child . |
| 18 | Woodwind intonation is rank at the beginning of the Tristan Prelude and also makes much of the first Lohengrin Prelude a trial ; the Tannhäuser Overture is for the most part glorious , despite short-winded trombones , but like the Shostakovich Tenth Symphony it is marred by low hum on the recording . |
| 19 | This procedure is compatible with a modification of the alkaline lysis method for plasmid minipreparation and considerably speeds this process ( 2 ) . |
| 20 | Despite this progress the IAEA team was unable to obtain full details of the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme and thus to assess any potential for its revival . |
| 21 | Can the model tuck into a hamburger and chips in her lunch break and still keep that sultry look ? |
| 22 | I believe that there may be distinct advantages to the adoption of a single currency at some time in the future and so do most of the business men I know in my constituency and elsewhere . |
| 23 | In order to construct an equivalent investment in the ungeared firm , the investor must purchase a proportion x of the outstanding equity and partially finance this with a loan equal to xB of the geared company 's debt . |
| 24 | Councillors , most of whom had strong local roots and had been in power for many years , came to believe they had a permanent mandate and readily resisted any challenge to their authority . |
| 25 | And you use that somewhere in the and you tie that to one car and then join that up . |
| 26 | No prior drug therapy had that effect and neither had any previous course of ECT . |
| 27 | Hospitality is the magazine for professional managers in the hotel and catering industry and now reaching all of its senior executives . |
| 28 | If the air needed clearing , then our first conversation did exactly that , for it saw each man strongly protesting his innocence and strenuously denying any involvement in the murder . |
| 29 | However , it must be said that this paper is not an attempt to cast management in an entirely negative light and then to oppose that with an equally ‘ rosy ’ view of professionalism — with the implication that management must recede and that professionalism should advance . |
| 30 | Probably the most effective way of dealing with an incipient spin in practice is to move forwards on the stick , apply the opposite rudder to check the yaw and then to use all the controls normally to bring the aircraft level . |