Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 2 | ‘ Love Thirty in tennis parlance ’ , writes Bellamy in his Introduction , ‘ fits in neatly with 30 years of airports , hotel rooms and press boxes , and suggests a manageable number of essays . ’ |
| 3 | Self help , one of the fastest growing areas of the voluntary sector in recent decades , fits in well with Conservative Party notions of self reliance , individual responsibility and active citizenship . |
| 4 | King Lear is a play which fits in perfectly with contemporary society in its portrayal of family tragedy . |
| 5 | Weight is very quickly lost in the first week or so of most diets , but slows down somewhat after that . |
| 6 | Each country with a sailing history has its own version which differs only slightly from that of others . |
| 7 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 8 | Sugar goes in too at this stage before the coffee is heated up . |
| 9 | Yet the idea that this is a ‘ women 's form ’ persists : it is as though people want to believe Lakoff because her account fits so well with prevailing ideas . |
| 10 | Survival of the controls was to a median of 7.5 months ( range 1 to >16 ) ( Fig 3 ) which corresponds remarkably closely to that in cases ( 7.5 ; 1–23 ) . |
| 11 | A dark colour on the exposed surface ensures that it blends right away with urban roofscape environments , making it ideal for the maintenance and renovation market . |
| 12 | Tough rule , to bowl to the er new batsman Mahammama , that 's his first delivery and he stands rather quickly at that one down on the leg stump , runs away off the pad , there 's a shout , I think more of anguish from Tufnell than er conviction . |
| 13 | ‘ It homes in totally on one man and that man is me . |
| 14 | Once completed , the house blends in well with older cottages in Weobley . |
| 15 | It is inevitable that we think of children at Christmas but , as Father John McCullagh writes so movingly on this page , our thoughts should not stop there . |
| 16 | One who deviates so manifestly from these rules as to drive recklessly ought to realize — because the driving test requires a driver to realize — that there is a considerable risk of an accident . |
| 17 | She lives down there in that nice house co opposite the hou council houses . |
| 18 | Some critics of the inequitable distribution of services and resources and of the poor quality of much local provision have argued that the fault lies not only with local government but with antiquated central government organization . |
| 19 | In the problem of consumption , therefore , urban sociology has not only at long last discovered an object of analysis ; it has helped identify one of the core questions of the modern age . |
| 20 | As far as this representative model is concerned procedural entitlements are viewed in purely instrumental terms , according to the contribution they may be expected to make to the accuracy of the underlying substantive policy judgments , and since no one has a right to a particular policy outcome , no one has aright either to any particular form of decision-making process . |
| 21 | One of these , due to Wilson ( 1975 : 151 ) , will have to suffice here , and holds not just for truth-conditional semantics but for virtually any semantic theory independent of pragmatics . |
| 22 | All now remain difficult to assign to a period after c. 340 , ( a date which corresponds more closely with that of other mosaics possessing single pairs of rotated squares , see below ) . |
| 23 | Incidence of lawyer use drops off dramatically for those over 45 , for those renting their homes , and is markedly less for those from the skilled manual and own-account and semiskilled or unskilled manual socio-economic groups . |
| 24 | The salt content of the air drops off significantly with increasing distance from the sea , though local variations in topography affect this relationship . |
| 25 | Chapter 3 looks more specifically at some traditional ideas about the value of science and humanities education , and at how these might relate to deep-rooted notions about gender . |
| 26 | Later on , similar conditions occur whenever a fresh snowfall is followed by a sudden change to hot , settled weather , but in August and September any new snow lies more thinly over bare ic . |
| 27 | Oxygen dissolves more freely in cold water than in warm . |
| 28 | She stands off expectantly to one side , limbs and body ready for an instant gallop or spring , her eyes focused upon you in an attempt to induce an endless repetition of the game . |
| 29 | Needlessly to hamper working animals bespeaks more eloquently of bad husbandry . |
| 30 | When it starts up fully in 1985 , the plant should produce some 500 tonnes of tin a year , one tenth of Cornwall 's present output . |