Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That money has now dried up . |
| 2 | That settlement has now come through you 'll see the details in the papers er but we also want to have regard to the fact that the award for the and bridges has actually been reduced substantially by thousand pounds the total reduction in that area approach one point five million pounds . |
| 3 | There were those who swore that Kitchen had so perfected his technique that midway through his sliding tackle he could swerve around obstacles , like team-mates , who got in the way . |
| 4 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 5 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 6 | Bet that boiler has already had it ! |
| 7 | The US company Du Pont acknowledged the same day that it had exported to Iraq a special lubricant used for nuclear weapons but stressed that permission to do so had been granted by the US government in 1989 . |
| 8 | Mr Templeton of the STA bluntly stated that " either the men or the women must cease to exist as comps " , 76 while Mrs Pankhurst , speaking in North Berwick , remarked that " the women were between the devil and the deep sea " .77 But that unity did eventually come about . |
| 9 | By the latter part of 1990 Ramiz Alia 's attempts to control unrest through concessions were visibly failing , each concession serving merely to encourage further demands [ see pp. 37864-65 ] . |
| 10 | For a few months , I entertained a ray of hope that after many , many years there was now less need for young men to face death in battle , but that hope has now died . |
| 11 | That trial seems finally to have convinced the DPP of the unwisdom of using obscenity laws against books with any claim to literary or sociological merit . |
| 12 | The Romans tended to be suspicious of novelty , and the word ‘ novus ’ had for them a sinister ring , although their memory of the past reminded them that change had often come about , although at first resisted . |
| 13 | In recent years that change has clearly accelerated ; indeed , the technological threat has made it even more important to plan ahead and to plan for radical change . |
| 14 | That change has severely reduced the amount of pension that many pensioners receive . |
| 15 | McGregor et al have shown that dextrose given intravenously inhibits meal stimulated intraduodenal bilirubin output . |
| 16 | Thenceforward it was to be taken that Parliament had only conferred the decision-making power on the basis that it was to be exercised on the correct legal basis : a misdirection in law in making the decision therefore rendered the decision ultra vires . |
| 17 | Mr. Howell submitted that Parliament having expressly dealt with the case of an admissions policy designed to preserve the character of the school in subsections ( 3 ) ( b ) and ( 6 ) , it was not open to the school ( even though over-subscribed ) to apply such a policy under section 6(3) ( a ) in selecting the applicants who were to be rejected . |
| 18 | For example , if by trial and error I discover that one particular way of ironing a shirt results in the job being completed more quickly , the reinforcement arising from removing a noxious event ( I hate ironing ) will very likely result in that technique becoming well established . |
| 19 | No clear motive was reported for the attack other than that Alfonsín had strongly criticized the government 's Dec. 29 pardoning of eight former high-ranking military officers imprisoned for masterminding the " dirty war " of the 1970s [ see p. 37913 ] , and had denounced ultra-right civil and military groups as " public enemy number one " . |
| 20 | The registrar will probably require to be satisfied that severance has actually taken place . |
| 21 | Each piece quoted here ends with new material , in each case giving added force and brilliance to the ending of operatic arias : |
| 22 | Army Television Channel 5 in Thailand reported on Jan. 9 that fighting had recently broken out between Lao government and rebel forces in Vientiane province . |
| 23 | For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | That figure has now risen to some 86 per cent. , which shows the Government 's achievement . |
| 25 | That practice has now brought about a major change in the NHS . |
| 26 | But whereas the Demoiselles is a stylistically disjunctive painting , here each figure seems simply to qualify and reaffirm the properties and existence of her neighbours . |
| 27 | One month before the Institute 's pilot scheme to open Council meetings to the press and the public has even begun , that prediction has already come true . |
| 28 | But above and beyond … did that enemy face perversely appeal to her ? |
| 29 | We may note from Table 9.6(a) that equity financing never exceeded 34 per cent of the total , indeed the primary sources of finance have been bank advances and ‘ other ’ ( Euroloans etc. ) over the entire period covered by the table . |
| 30 | The spots of colour in his cheeks were much brighter than before , and he had a napkin crumpled in his hand ; all that coughing had clearly started his nose bleeding . |