Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Country Living : Where waves wash away city tension Lynne Edmunds finds that the trek to a more leisurely crowd-free lifestyle is far from being an over-60s monopoly |
| 2 | This links with a second category of verbs , where movement indicates both agent and recipient . |
| 3 | Lyons boldly lists the following ( 1977a : 574 ) , over and above universal principles of logic and language usage : ( i ) knowledge of role and status ( where role covers both role in the speech event , as speaker or addressee , and social role , and status covers notions of relative social standing ) , ( ii ) knowledge of spatial and temporal location , ( iii ) knowledge of formality level , ( iv ) knowledge of the medium ( roughly the code or style appropriate to a channel , like the distinction between written and spoken varieties of a language ) , ( v ) knowledge of appropriate subject matter , ( vi ) knowledge of appropriate province ( or domain determining the register of a language ) . |
| 4 | Once again my keen eye for spotting talent , where others see only incompetence , has sparkled in bringing Ubahni Singh to the club . |
| 5 | Although ranitidine reduced both daytime ( upright ) and nocturnal ( supine ) reflux , it led to a more pronounced decrease of nocturnal reflux . |
| 6 | ‘ Once Edward becomes truly king , he can change all that , my lord . ’ |
| 7 | Although Burn showed both originality and ingenuity in his initial designs for the Edinburgh Academy , giving a two-storey building a single-storey façade and an unfluted portico to save on façading costs , others made the Greek revival their own : Thomas Hamilton who developed the basic arrangement of the final design of Burn 's Academy into the Royal High School , and William Henry Playfair , Burn 's contemporary at Smirke 's , whose work showed awareness of the latest developments in Germany . |
| 8 | Indeed , even if Rennenkampf marched directly south and joined Samsonov , the Germans would be heavily outnumbered . |
| 9 | The book is brimming with little aperçus : why , if dogs eat only meat , do their breaths smell of fish ? ; why , when the credits roll at the end of a film , are more songs listed than one can remember having heard ? |
| 10 | And so if people had less money in their pockets and they were losing their jobs , what factors can explain why more and more people were actually going on holiday abroad ? |
| 11 | The Treasury insisted that living standards at home and even exports would be under threat unless Britain cut both defence spending and foreign commitments . |
| 12 | The IMF view is that taxation is a burden because governments spend today money that would otherwise be invested by business and peasant families tomorrow , and without such private investment development will be held back . |
| 13 | ‘ So , since work yielded neither stimulation nor serious reward , I concentrated on my hobby . |
| 14 | The offer is only open while stocks last so post off the order form today . |
| 15 | As cisapride increased both contraction amplitude and duration , the significant increase found in the area under the pressure curve could be expected . |
| 16 | Within that evolving framework there is both complexity and variety , for change involves both redundancy as well as novelty , and each region was subject to different pressures stemming from its past and its neighbours . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that the global , often UK-originated course is likely to become less important as product becomes increasingly country , market and syllabus-specific , it is the UK 's TEFL industry that underpins British publishers ' claim to superior authenticity , experience and expertise . |
| 18 | If hunting were banned on all of that it would only have a small marginal effect but we can as Mr said only ban hunting on land we both own and control , land in hand , that actually totals a hundred and fifty eight acres , slightly smaller than Victoria Park but that includes road , bridleways , land with no access , S S S Is , Sites of Special Scientific Interest , land awaiting disposal the land capable of being hunted and in hand totals fifty two acres about as much of Victoria Park as I can see from my front window . |
| 19 | Alex brought it down like a guillotine for its utter cold meant no feeling , when feeling meant only pain . |
| 20 | When Jack went away Piggy became more self confident and practical . |
| 21 | Before going further let us dispose of one standard excuse that usually crops up when people talk about time pressures . |
| 22 | I wondered if it might be an admission of mortality , an agreement that as birth precedes so death must follow . |