Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These are useless for feeding — but the time for feeding has long since passed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the story has only just begun . |
| 5 | The ARFU 's decision has still yet to sink in with many rugby traditionalists but Channel Ten displayed instant commitment to their new deal when they televised the tickertape parade live throughout Australia . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Our Gas Turbines division has now firmly established a world centre of excellence in the repair and overhaul of gas generators in Aberdeen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The recession has also clearly produced forced sales of businesses as well as more measured ones . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This function has long since passed to the Cabinet . |
| 15 | She suggests that as yet the British social work field has neither wholeheartedly accepted the credibility of the black perspective nor realized the benefits of alternative black expertise which would enhance black child care research . |
| 16 | It is in the development of specific accounting procedures that the US and UK experience has most obviously diverged . |
| 17 | Experience has too often shown that problems arise where there is a lack of sympathy with the Church and its worshippers . |
| 18 | The Department of English Literature has also recently established a graduate school . |
| 19 | Ludwig is also the Emperor 's bodyguard and his mere presence has so far proven enough to discourage any attempts on the Emperor 's life . |
| 20 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 21 | However this effort to resolve the problems of access and content within an institutional framework has apparently seriously weakened the earlier close ties with social and political movements in working-class communities in the city . |
| 22 | The reduced sand content and high fibre weight offers better underfoot grip when compared to sand filled tufteds and natural grass . |
| 23 | The once ubiquitous 80-column punched card has now almost disappeared but , even though data are commonly input via a VDU , much of the flavour of the earlier era remains . |
| 24 | The electorate has long since rumbled Tony Benn , Eric Heffer , Dennis Skinner , Ken Livingstone and the rest . |
| 25 | The Left Coalition has so far ruled out linking up with the conservatives again — the improbable alliance of last June has been blamed for much of their drop in support — but has already hinted that it would be willing to support a national unity government as proposed by the New Democrat leader Mr Constantine Mitsotakis . |
| 26 | But the shooting has once more raised Armenian passions to boiling point . |
| 27 | Terry Goldsmith has only ever watched the Gold Cup race run on television . |
| 28 | For both occupational strata female employees earn about 60 per cent of the wages of their male counterparts , and this discrimination against and exploitation of women 's labour has only marginally decreased through legislation such as the Equal Pay Act of 1970 . |
| 29 | And he suspects the stolen car has now long disappeared across the border . |
| 30 | The Advanced Courses Development Programme has so far involved two phases of pilot courses , each phase having represented a stage in the progression from the current Advanced Courses system to a system based on the principles in the Policy Paper . |