Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a module involving several different forms of assessment and/or having more than one member of staff teaching and assessing it , double marking is not normally required . |
| 2 | Their motives were seen as malicious damage or play rather than mental disorder or the settling of grudges . |
| 3 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 4 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 5 | Add the chicken breasts to the stock and simmer gently until cooked . |
| 6 | Christina touched the side of his jeep and jumped away as it began to rock . |
| 7 | He has to watch the actor he would replace for signs of strain or imminent collapse and wonder nervously whether he could actually remember the lines if he had to go on . |
| 8 | Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow . |
| 9 | Just higher your chariot blades on a level with his neck and drive past when he 's not looking ? but do n't tell anybody I said so . |
| 10 | It looks at the ageing process with optimism and hope rather than despair . |
| 11 | Toss the onion and carrots in with the butter into a non-stick saucepan and toss briefly until glazed , then cover and sweat for about 3 minutes . |
| 12 | The rescue package , financed by the three developers , involves felling 300 dead trees , clearing away undergrowth and planting more than 1,200 trees . |
| 13 | She walked round to the rear of the car and stood silently while he undid the boot and picked up her bag . |
| 14 | She hastily returned it to its place , and in a state of some agitation went back to her car and sat there until she felt calm again . |
| 15 | Later , in the boat and shouting again because of the whoosh of water behind them as well as the noise of the engine , Tucker told her , ‘ We could 've gone round by road but this way you get a better feel . |
| 16 | We played the same game every Sunday ; each one in turn pulled down his or her underwear and rotated slowly while the others watched . |
| 17 | THE decision by Scotland 's Stephen McAllister 's to concentrate on rhythm and feel rather than technique brought him a rich dividend in the Balearic Open here yesterday . |
| 18 | However , do n't make too much of a habit of switch-changing because the opponent may pick up your rhythm and attack just as you are in the middle of a change . |
| 19 | I turned back to Sorrel and leaned forward so we eyeballed each other . |
| 20 | For nearly two hours he worked his way through his agenda , more administration and finance today than scientific exploration . |
| 21 | Yet would it not be better to abandon this headlong errand and sleep rather than go out once more into the drenching darkness ? |
| 22 | Mason 's party also took place in the canteen and attracted more than 60 former employees . |
| 23 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 24 | The first drafts of the play are concerned to set the pattern of action and feeling rather than with the exploration of individual characters — this formalistic approach to his task was demonstrated in the preparation of a later drama , when he used a blackboard to set out the play and used symbols to denote his characters . |
| 25 | She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine . |
| 26 | From such heads of water currents will diverge along the coast and turn seawards as rip currents when they meet opposite currents emanating from the next divergence along the coast . |
| 27 | Neither is there any sign that epithelial cells further from the leading edge are putting out lamellipodia or crawling forward as described in some adult systems . |
| 28 | But the smile lasted less than a heartbeat and vanished entirely when she saw that fitzAlan continued to watch the small party until it disappeared from view . |
| 29 | The whole notion of society was patriarchial , from the concept of God the father right down to the father who actually dominated the household and dictated even when the rosary should be said , and so forth . |
| 30 | And then , all I 've done is worked out some time management and say well if these guys turn up at half past eight every morning and I give them a break at ten o'clock , and they get a lunch break and then in afternoon , another break , and they finish at half past four , if everything goes to plan , by four o'clock Friday , my van should be backing up at the end of the production line to load itself up with a thousand widgets . |