Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Third , how can a speaker or writer successfully communicate certain opinions and attitudes without explicitly putting them into words ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 5 | These later evolved into tribes , and these in turn swelled in size and complexity eventually to become fully-fledged states . |
| 6 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | This framework presumably imposes interpretative limits . |
| 9 | Some work of the former kind altogether avoids social considerations , and passes out of our present context . |
| 10 | Obviously some men were quite prepared to rely upon their skill and the contract below represented dramatic earnings for Floyd and his partners … |
| 11 | Other Acts of Parliament merely grant local authorities powers , which they may choose whether or not to use . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Tolkien perhaps found such opinions in a work he knew well , King Alfred the Great 's personal translation of Boethius into Old English . |
| 14 | Therefore the wave only has non-zero components along the x(l) and y(2) directions and is transverse to the direction of motion z(3) . |
| 15 | … very much and you get a fabulous Radio Subasio T-shirt so keep those calls coming out there this one is for Adriana in Gubbio it 's Celentano 's latest coming to you at fifteen before four this Thursday morning courtesy of your friend Tullio who says … |
| 16 | Approaching the lodging house it looks as if the old harridan has got a gang together to repel unwelcome boarders . |
| 17 | There is an index to the schedules , but this has been criticized in connection with the inadequate size of its entry vocabulary , the number of entries in the index only exceeding those subjects listed in the schedules by about 25 per cent . |
| 18 | A traumatic change of this kind obviously raises major issues for the policymakers and the managers who have to bring it about . |
| 19 | In this sense , the search at the higher level only takes small steps . |
| 20 | ‘ The thing is … well , this apartment only has two bedrooms … ’ |
| 21 | The current dip in farm spending as a proportion of the total EC budget merely reflects higher outlays on the Community 's regional and social programmes . |
| 22 | However , once the Revolution closed much of the USSR behind its invisible Iron Curtain , both bureaucratic difficulties and high expense effectively put these mountains out of reach to all but a few fortunate climbers . |
| 23 | The deluge of letters that continued to arrive in the Social Work Department eventually made personal replies an impossible task for the Department . |
| 24 | Their action effectively scuppered six years of negotiations , since all decisions taken by the 22 signatories to the 1959 Washington Treaty — the framework for the political and environmental protection of Antarctica - must be unanimous . |
| 25 | The unpredictable , sporadic nature of storms on an open coast presumably render exposed shores unstable in this respect . |
| 26 | This result apparently supports earlier claims that the Earth 's climate system has several stable modes , between which it flips . |
| 27 | Firstly , geography alone means foreign traders are less well known to one another because of the distances involved , e.g. a Brazilian exporter despatching goods to Singapore . |
| 28 | State-owned British Leyland , for example , had ( barely ) managed to get by with each employee only making six cars in 1979 . |
| 29 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 30 | The combined processes of volcanism , tectonic fracturing and hydrothermal circulation together form massive deposits of sulphides . |