Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susie , 41 , has suffered from multiple sclerosis for 20 years and knows from first-hand experience the difficulty in finding facilities geared up for those who actually gain most from regular exercise . |
| 2 | It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor . |
| 3 | Liquid mixtures which deviate widely from ideal behaviour can not be separated by fractional distillation . |
| 4 | The persona of ‘ the Watcher ’ , which dominates his best writing , was already being formed : his way forward lay somewhere between social openness and egotistical restlessness . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly , therefore , most marketing efforts concentrate predominantly on satisfying people 's wants . |
| 6 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers . |
| 7 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers |
| 8 | Performers such as Richard Cocciante , Sandra , Renaud and Telephone mean little to British audiences , but in their own countries — Italy , Germany and France — they are stars , selling enormous quantities of records . |
| 9 | Eat slowly in convivial surroundings and , above all , enjoy your food . |
| 10 | Stephanie had in other years enjoyed this believed fairy tale : this year her own heaviness , fear perhaps of real birth , prevented her . |
| 11 | But I am not too keen on performances which concentrate entirely on rhetorical expression , and thereby lose both the singing quality , and the logic of the ‘ long line ’ . |
| 12 | There were crags up there he 'd heard , real crags , but they were empty now and host only to thriving colonies of brilliant green algae . |
| 13 | From this a deduction has to be made for knife sharpening and shields , about 4d a week … the women suffer greatly from chronic asthma … and by the acids with which the Colonial skins are cleaned . |
| 14 | Are some pupils absent only on particular days of the week ? |
| 15 | Layer together with whipped cream , strawberry jam and sliced fresh strawberries . |
| 16 | Bring gently to simmering point . |
| 17 | Functionalists such as Parsons and Davis and Moore say little about social stratification in the sense of clearly defined social strata whose members have shared interests . |
| 18 | So steer clear of other kites being flown on single lines . |
| 19 | Steer clear of complicated issues or sensitive subjects or you 're sure to put your foot in things and make a tense situation even worse . |
| 20 | ‘ Steer clear of insipid colours and choose strong shades , ’ she advised . |
| 21 | Non-Japanese companies largely steer clear of virgin forests , opting instead for investment in eucalyptus plantations . |
| 22 | Try to work out the best solution to your background problem , then forget altogether about conventional seating ( one or two sofas , armchairs , occasional chairs ) . |
| 23 | Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas appear predominantly on exposed areas of the head and neck , while in Caucasians , malignant melanomas frequently appear on the back in both men and women and also on the legs in women . |
| 24 | Narrow-winged , small and compact , they fly powerfully with rapid wing-beats , sometimes planing over the water like hydrofoils ; in hunting they dive and use their wings for propulsion under water , feeding mostly on plankton and small fish ( Nettleship and Birkhead , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | What it 's like : soft , padded , adjustable seat and padded neck support , with straps that go round mum 's waist and over shoulders and fit together with clunk-click fitting . |
| 26 | The plants grow naturally in impoverished peat bogs , and they devour insects as a source of protein . |
| 27 | Sir Leon Brittan has tried to argue that the concept of sovereignty is fundamentally archaic and cranky , fit only for medieval speculation . |
| 28 | The crucial point in this deductive piece of science was that corals grow only in shallow water ; the theory became generally accepted , and helped to make Darwin 's name as a geologist . |
| 29 | The patterns are common to both hemispheres and appear only on open ground , not under permanent ice ( except for some ‘ fossil ’ patterns representing an earlier interglacial ) , or under longstanding snow drifts or thick vegetation . |
| 30 | Each of several characters is followed through twenty-four hours and their lives touch only at certain points in the narrative . |