Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In publicly announcing the withdrawal of its remaining occupation forces from Korea , the US should make it unmistakably clear that this step in no way constitutes a lessening of US support of the Government of the Republic of Korea , but constitutes rather another step towards the regularisation by the US of its relations with that Government and a fulfilment on the part of the US of the relevant provision of the GA Resolution [ UN General Assembly ] of December 12 , 1948 . ’ |
| 2 | A mother 's agony goes on 20 years after her son 's death |
| 3 | This is a field which involves rather different skills from those needed for advertising , and some agencies , my own for one , have a separate design department to handle this type of job . |
| 4 | Cause , in contrast , evokes only indirect involvement of its agent in bringing the comments into being : a " 6-inch torrent of water " can not make a comment but the fact of its passage through someone 's lot might certainly provoke uncharitable remarks from the owner . |
| 5 | The motives for seeking office are partly that the life of a backbench MP soon becomes unsatisfactory and offers so little scope for achievement , for registering even the smallest impact on a restricted area of.public life , that the average MP looks with envy on any minister who has a positive job to perform , however limited the field . |
| 6 | For many patients , irrespective of age , admission to an acute hospital constitutes only one phase of their medical career . |
| 7 | FACT FILE Flights : Brit Air ( 01-499 9511 ) offers daily direct services from Gatwick to Brest and Rennes ; a special weekend fare to both destinations costs £99 return ( travel out Friday , return Sunday or travel out Saturday and return Monday ) . |
| 8 | One pair of these are the sex chromosomes — " female " chromosomes shaped rather like the letter X. The ovum contributes only one chromosome of each pair to the fertilised cell from which a child will develop . |
| 9 | This process can sometimes weaken the pile fibres , but it produces extremely attractive shades of muted red and rose . |
| 10 | Bourdieu 's epistemology , like the poststructuralists , grants only minimal autonomy to human-scientific practices from the field of power . |
| 11 | Ciccolini is capable of very stylish virtuosity and shows this to great effect in the more extrovert pieces to which he also brings genuine humour ( as opposed to the archness which spoils so many performances of Satie 's music ) . |
| 12 | Cold inhibits or prevents plant growth and slows down chemical processes in soils , prolonging the period of maturation . |
| 13 | this goes down each time until finally |
| 14 | Yeah well she she sleeps she goes down some time between eight thirty and eleven . |
| 15 | America produces much better statistics on mortgage arrears than Britain . |
| 16 | This represents only two cases in 1990–1 , and all costings were based on the assumption that tonsillectomies took place as inpatient procedures . |
| 17 | Heliconia , a kind of wild South American banana , produces long hanging stems with lines of triangular spiky flowers on each side . |
| 18 | The new scheme , the Social Fund , offers only limited help through grants with the result that most families have to look to discretionary loans to cope with large items of expenditure or with an emergency . |
| 19 | The habitat of an animal population offers only finite resources for its use . |
| 20 | You will have to be quick , for Lotus produces only small numbers of cars and demand is likely to be high . |
| 21 | Indeed , on average , each pair of cod produces only two offspring of opposite sexes that survive to breed in the course of their lives , for if it were not so , the population of cod would grow and grow , which it clearly does not . |
| 22 | In a pipe organ of quality each pipe is a carefully-designed and individually-voiced musical instrument which produces only one frequency of sound . |
| 23 | Edinburgh produces so many theses on geology as a whole that the number on Scottish geology is not disproportionate . |
| 24 | It involves only small changes to existing slurry disposal practices , the chief one being that slurry is applied through injectors rather than through a discharge nozzle . |
| 25 | For the more complex general case of the analogous time-dependent form may prove unwieldy and in any case involves much deeper consideration of non-equilibrium thermodynamics . |
| 26 | A simpler interpretation is that the experimenters have rediscovered what Lashley ( 1950 ) showed many years ago , that partial removal of the cortical area to which the dorsal lateral geniculate body projects , has remarkably little effect on simple form discrimination tasks and that it is only when the entire cortical projection zone is removed that severe deficits , detectable in the simple behavioural paradigms we use , emerge . |
| 27 | He has remarkably little choice of action or initiative if he is going to comply with the flight manual and his company 's operations manual and at the same time carry out an economic flight . |
| 28 | When you get angry you pump all sorts of different chemicals around your body and they do n't do your body any good that 's for sure , you know you get the adrenalin that starts making everything well making the blood move faster heart beat faster you get other chemicals ready and if those chemicals are n't used properly or if something does n't happen and it uses those particular chemicals and they 're left inside the body then that causes eventually physical illness in some sort of physical wearing of some sort or another , so gradually just the opposite of this where you 're you 're not internalising your throwing it out , but there 's a hell of a lot in there that 's been stored up there and bottled up there before it throws out , and when you do tend to be aggressive it 's not because you 're being aggressive on purpose it 's because it 's just something that just happens and wells up when you get to a particular point and whoosh out it comes . |
| 29 | This very rigid institutional division of labour has rather serious implications in the public law field of decision-making processes , however . |
| 30 | She has rather long arms with slightly curved fingers , short legs and broad feet . |