Example sentences of "[adv] and [adj] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The common European toad , when it meets a snake , inflates its body and stands on tip-toe , a procedure that makes it appear to have grown suddenly and that seems to baffle most of the snakes that encounter it . |
| 2 | All have joined together and all have had to become familiar with serving a different type of customer . |
| 3 | Sin and sex do somehow go together and this seems to tie in with the distinction I made much earlier on between the scientific view that man differs from other animals only in degree and the religious view that there is an essential difference in kind . |
| 4 | Hating the thought that she was eavesdropping , Julia still could not force herself away and half turned to see David gently pushing his mother upright again . |
| 5 | The cars left the starting grid at Edinburgh Castle at 10.30am and most had reached Scotch Corner by 3pm . |
| 6 | More than 12,000 people have been treated in America and elsewhere and some have complained of glare , especially from car headlights when driving at night . |
| 7 | Any spare spaces available on courses for its own advice workers are filled by people from outside and this helps provide additional professional stimulation for its trainers . |
| 8 | She took a step backwards and this seemed to satisfy him , because he went on up the ladder . |
| 9 | At the moment the sail is only attached down its needed edge but before we can use it , we 've got to control it properly and that means to tuck it in the boot the jaws clip on here , the down-haul clips on to the sail and is threaded through the jaws before we make it up on the cleat the position of the boom and hence the sail relative to the wind is controlled by this rope , the mainsheet . |
| 10 | It was not simply a matter of switching the definitions of crime from what the working class do to what the capitalist class do ( that would merely be a transitional strategy ) ; in the socialist society both upper- and lower-class crime would disappear since there would be ‘ a set of social arrangements in which there would be no politically , economically and socially-induced need to criminalise deviance ’ ( Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , p. 270 ) . |
| 11 | Having said that , you are both in the same business , and as in bookselling , if the rep wants to continue business with you , it is still about getting the stock levels right and that means buying to sell out . |
| 12 | ‘ They live dangerously and some get caught and die by the law . |
| 13 | Erm , generally speaking , the people who get firsts are the ones who can write neatly very quickly and that does help . |
| 14 | Decisively and that 's happened now . |
| 15 | When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less . |
| 16 | Within the year before the interview 27 patients had had pulmonary arterial pressures measured directly and 23 had had total lung capacity ( helium dilution ) and gas transfer measured . |
| 17 | Sometimes with the orally administered benzimidazoles the drug by-passes the rumen and enters the abomasum directly and this appears to lower efficacy because of its more rapid absorption and excretion . |
| 18 | Over 500 candidates have completed the course so far and all have visited Lyles . |
| 19 | Sadly , I know there is less work today and many have turned to drugs and drink . |
| 20 | If you are thinking of feeding a composite source into the monitor , from a video recorder say , then the problem would be one of matching scan rates as well and this does get complicated . |
| 21 | I am a bit of an oddity here and this has opened a few doors for me . |
| 22 | Yeah , you both got a big bit there and that gets rid of that then , right who want 's erm some tomato sauce ? |
| 23 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ It is the case that landings of fish have been good recently and that has depressed the price of fish at the market . |
| 25 | The number of stock under the supervision of a single worker has increased considerably and this has placed an additional burden on the skill of the stockman to face the new challenges which have resulted . |