Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The rather woolly nature of these claims aside , readers might be forgiven for wondering why , if the Cuk converter offers so many desirable features , it is not more commonly used .
2 ‘ Watercolour offers so many exciting opportunities — I want to develop my ideas and stretch the limits of the medium .
3 Medau knits together these diverse threads in my life .
4 Although they are welcome as an attempt to rationalise clinical practice , we believe the bulletin and leading article to be greatly misleading in implying an overperformance of surgery since it starts from the premise that grommet insertion is performed predominantly for hearing loss , which represents only one debilitating symptom of the many that glue ear may produce .
5 Inbound TCP/IP sessions are not available and it offers only limited terminal emulation capabilities .
6 The survey showed that France produces only 6300 new science books a year , compared with more than 9000 in Britain .
7 Just what is it about Barbados that produces so many wonderful cricketers ?
8 Usually he can spend only a limited time at one session in the tasting room as his work involves so much keen concentration .
9 Police work involves so much bloody paperwork these days and a lot of boring stuff that a family row can quite spice up a night .
10 Story material is unfortunately very difficult to deal with , and recent work tackles only simple linear structures in the story .
11 Fry 's book contains rather little biographical information , the focus being firmly on Cézanne 's work .
12 It can climb to 25ft-30ft , and through summer to October it has rather insignificant pale cream flowers with excellent fragrance .
13 Adult has less conspicuous whitish patch at base of tail than most Lesser Spotteds ( Tawny has none ) .
14 Alex has extremely nice coloured teeth .
15 Any narrative of his life develops along several parallel routes .
16 Also , it has somewhat different political perspectives in terms of a ‘ persistent leftism ’ ( Adams , 1983 ) rather than pragmatic reformism , and is more committed to direct political action than elsewhere .
17 Constant frequency clock circuits controllable by a start/stop signal are available as single integrated circuits and the excitation sequence generator of Fig. 8.4(b) needs only two integrated circuit packages .
18 Someone who has much chronic ill health should not be treated except by an experienced practitioner .
19 Looks much greener than Bee-eater , and has much longer central tail feathers , blue cheeks , chestnut throat , and no black breast-band .
20 Rare transatlantic vagrant , drake most easily told by conspicuous white patch at back of head ; darker duck has much smaller white patch behind eye .
21 Over in Italy , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is less directly affected by the abrupt change in status of all things IBM — it only markets Hitachi 's plug-compatible mainframes , but it has so many other problems that that is little compensation .
22 so what 's the winning formula … how come Swindon has so many young golfing greats …
23 It is also very difficult not to feel sorry for someone who has so many negative characteristics .
24 I do n't know anybody else who has so many tremendous friends . ’
25 when she goes : it has so many little holes
26 Transport has so many social implications of one kind or another that there can never be an arm 's length relationship …
27 No other business jet has so many differing roles : in addition to corporate use , it is used for military liaison and communication flights , casualty evacuation , photographic survey , aeronautical and meteorological research , navaid calibration , airline crew training , Electronic Counter Measure ( ECM mission , weapon system trainer ( Mirage 111E ) , mini freight carrier and in the near future the Garrett turbofan-engine 20G will be operated by the United States Coast Guard .
28 Medicine 's all-at-once repellent and resplendent feedback hell racket has so many hidden depths and intricacies , it defies easy write-offs and hamfisted pigeonholing .
29 Neville Whittaker , the ebullient chief executive of the North East Civic Trust , says the region has so many bad buildings a great deal of it would not be left standing if he could invoke the Heseltine solution .
30 Never has so much explicit description of the mechanics of intercourse been rivetingly televised with such unimpeachable justification .
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