Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extract starts where Gilly has just received a postcard from her mother . |
| 2 | Lawrence then supposes that bristles grow so as to point down the concentration gradient . |
| 3 | So it hardly matters that Connery lives mostly in Marbella , that his residence for tax purposes , used to be on Paradise Island in the Bahamas and is now an apartment in Monte Carlo , although he still has the place in the Bahamas . |
| 4 | More recent work ( Bankowski and Mungham 1976 ; Illich 1977 ; Medcalf 1978 ; Scheingold 1974 ) emphasises that lawyers control not merely , or even at all , by over-the-desk domination of clients , but more subtly . |
| 5 | Repton himself comments in his Enquiry that ‘ the ‘ antiquated cot ’ , whose chimney is choked with ivy , may perhaps yield a residence for squalid misery and want ’ ; and an awareness develops that cottages do not have to be ruinous to be picturesque . |
| 6 | The new theory is a refinement of the theory of plate tectonics , which holds that continents grow steadily and systematically by a process called subduction . |
| 7 | Law as integrity is also a non-skeptical theory of legal rights : it holds that people have as legal rights whatever rights are sponsored by the principles that provide the best justification of legal practice as a whole Pragmatism , on the contrary , denies that people ever have legal rights ; it takes the bracing view that they are never entitled to what would otherwise be worse for the community just because some legislature said so or a long string of judges decided other people were . |
| 8 | For the USSR much will depend , ultimately , on world oil prices , on world gas prices and on just how much foreign currency the USSR needs if energy exports really do account for 60 to 80 per cent of hard currency earnings . |
| 9 | If you drop the E it looks like policing does n't it ? |
| 10 | He always looks like shit does n't he ? |
| 11 | So er just because it looks like seduction does n't mean it 's not abuse , I suppose that 's what I 'm saying in the in the in a nutshell . |
| 12 | Geoffrey Wheatcroft wonders if murder strikes quite the right note |
| 13 | There 's none of the daily rancour which develops when people live bovinely together . |
| 14 | But , and secondly , what counts as rationality takes on much more subtle hues . |
| 15 | Theoretically they mark a stage in the formation of organic soils , but as neither mosses nor lichens put down penetrating roots , and earthworms are lacking , organic material remains mostly superficial . |
| 16 | ( He still thinks that universities accept too low a standard of written English communication from their students . ) |
| 17 | Anyone who thinks that Carter do n't translate outside London would have been stunned into submission . |
| 18 | Despite the dangers , BSAC , whose training is among the most rigorous in the world , insists that diving compares favourably with other sports . |
| 19 | Meanwhile New Scientist understands that ministers have not taken up the offer of the Greenfield committee to hold further meetings to consider the issues of generic drugs further . |
| 20 | Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work . |
| 21 | One insider opines that IBM has probably lost a little of it 's smugness . |
| 22 | Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity . |
| 23 | Slater , however , who figures MIPS for one of the strongest long-term challenges to Intel 's iAPX-86 dominance in the personal computer market , allows that MIPS has nevertheless created some of its own headaches — like delays in the R4000 RISC stemming from its decision to produce a chip that pleased everybody , yet pleased nobody . |
| 24 | She had dutifully done so and together they had selected an array of clothes in the deep greens and blues , the rich wine shades that Thomas said best set off her porcelain skin and burnished hair . |
| 25 | As for the huge variability in the number of contradictory results , Moore says that NCI applies only the most stringent criteria to their decisions : a significant turnout response to a given dose in two species or two sexes . |
| 26 | Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc says that operating profits more than doubled in its second year as an independent $2,000m-a-year company , but unhelpfully does n't provide any numbers : worldwide shipments of IBM personal printers made by what used to be the typewriter arm of IBM grew 20% and the typewriter and supplies businesses both substantially exceeded their financial targets , it says ; debt is now below $700m from the $1,150m in March 1991 , and this year 's portion of debt obligation has already been paid in advance . |
| 27 | When Denethor says that stewards do not come to be kings by the lapse of a few centuries in Gondor , but only ‘ in other places of less royalty ’ , the remark is true of Scotland , and of Britain — though not of Anglo-Saxon England , ruled from the legendary past of King Cerdic to 1065 by kings descended in paternal line from one ancestor . |
| 28 | Richard Simmonds of laser says that success does n't happen overnight … they 've been in Banbury since the early seventies and have built 150,000 boats … he says it 's about time that people in banbury had the chance to sail on their doorstep and there are lots of local clubs that offer people the chance |
| 29 | He says that vaccines do n't always work , it would be a disaster for even one infected dog to get into this country . |
| 30 | Again , like his UK counterpart , Richet says that Montpellier has already found some OEM business and that outsiders account for 10% of his revenue . |