Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 2 | CROSS A FAST TYPIST WITH A WINDOWS WORD PROCESSOR AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU 'LL SEE SOME WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH AS THE PROGRAM CHUGS ALONG A FEW PACES BEHIND THE USER . |
| 3 | Darius stomps down the three steps without saying a word . |
| 4 | It is only the slow pace of human speech and human reactions that slows down the electronic processes that come into play when national security appears to be at risk . |
| 5 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 6 | Figure 6.3b shows yet another type of homoclinic orbit ; this one involves only the stationary points and C " . |
| 7 | An ambulatory round the central octagon joins together the four chapels of the smaller ones . |
| 8 | The candidate looks down the offered answers arid circles A or B or C or whichever answer he thinks appropriate . |
| 9 | Technically the Flydaway has much the same characteristics as a tram . |
| 10 | Today the surface of the peat fens lies only a few feet above or below sea-level . |
| 11 | The village of Artagnan , indeed , lies only a few miles from Montaner , to the north-east ; and it was one of the seventeenth-century counts of this Artagnan whom Alex Andre pumas , once again , took and elevated into his fictional hero . |
| 12 | A hundred watt light bulb has only a hundred gallons a minute going through , okay ? |
| 13 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 14 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 15 | Lord Beaverbrook has only a few weeks to sort out his finances . |
| 16 | The infamous Berlin Wall now has only a few vestiges remaining . |
| 17 | Robyn has only the dimmest memories of the country of her birth , and has never had the opportunity to refresh or renew them , Professor Penrose 's characteristic response to any suggestion that the family should revisit Australia being a shudder . |
| 18 | Peter Shaffer has only the fondest memories of a performer who appears to have been a playwright 's delight . |
| 19 | Arguably it is this aim which provides the ‘ ideological coherence which holds together the various initiatives and pieces of legislation ’ ( Stoker , 1988 , p. 251 ) introduced by the Conservative governments of the 1980s . |
| 20 | The county-border area contains only a few villages with old English names like Potton , Tadlow , Wrestlingworth and Gamlingay . |
| 21 | For a given BFS , if we choose the so that whenever is basic , then ( 8.2 ) contains only the non-basic variables and we can deduce that is the objective-row coefficient of . |
| 22 | Now , 18 days after the attacker was put behind bars , he 's been allowed to return home for a visit and he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs . |
| 23 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 24 | It can be shown that this solution has exactly the same properties as the aligned Bell-Szekeres solution . |
| 25 | The Adams Park pitch , O'Neill will tell you , has exactly the same dimensions as Wembley 's . |
| 26 | The problem , simply stated , is that for any rational expectations model one can always specify a non-rational expectations model which has exactly the same implications for a given set of data , even though it may have other implications which are quite different . |
| 27 | Since the imposition of these conditions on equation ( 3.25 ) gives an equation which is identical to equation ( 3.16 ) we have derived a model of consumption which has a different underlying theory of consumption and assumes irrational expectations , but which has exactly the same implications for the data as our rational expectations consumption model . |
| 28 | How come we can send a spacecraft to Venus or write the Bible on a microchip yet remain incapable of operating a sophisticated transportation network when the temperature drops just a few degrees below zero ? |
| 29 | The answer to this question has not a few repercussions in the social world that sociologists study — often for purely secular reasons . |
| 30 | If you then say , ah well it might expand to double that number or to five thousand , as was postulated , that then begs an even larger question , because in my submission you would then go back and revisit the alternatives of , for example , should you expand Tadcaster , which has not the best facilities in its town centre , er to quote but one example of er viability and sustainability of towns . |