Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , bargaining is a closed , private activity which sits uneasily astride the current emphasis on open government and public participation . |
| 2 | They say peace , it does n't just go on the top two inches of the surface water , it goes right to the very depths of your life and keeps . |
| 3 | This lack of interest goes right through the educational system , In Ealing for example ( an area where a high proportion of the population is Asian ) not one school had facilities for teaching Asian languages . |
| 4 | James Allan flies economically with the air-minded Kiwis . |
| 5 | The concentration of tissue plasminogen activator , however , was 20 to 70 times greater than that of urokinase in both groups of patients and therefore urokinase probably contributes little to the overall fibrinolytic activity . |
| 6 | 2 The defender drives upward with a full knee spring out of the attacker 's reach . |
| 7 | One could perhaps say that the pronoun here refers successfully via a discourse-deictic reference to a prior NP . |
| 8 | It differs greatly from the family-based structuring of human life with its stress on the long-term bond between mates . |
| 9 | Howard almost laughs aloud at the young man 's distaste for the prospect . |
| 10 | Alison 's favours break down the boundaries of class ; any man who can lay her in his bed is like a lord , as Absolon says as he anticipates her kiss : Kolve 's interpretation of potentially religious images within the tale is fine as far as it goes , and can justly be quoted against the allegorizers , but there is at least one aspect of the tale that refers irreducibly to a moral frame within which the tale is set : recurrent swearing of oaths by " " Seint Thomas of Kent " " , which reminds us of the framing narrative with its realistic and morally symbolic journey towards Becket 's shrine in Canterbury and the judgement of the tale-telling game just as much as John 's calling upon St Frideswide locates the tale effectively within Oxford . |
| 11 | This formula differs somewhat from the classical Hertz expression for elastic deformation of a plane by a rigid sphere . |
| 12 | You can hear it in the jazz metal fills in ‘ Glam Slam ’ and ‘ U Got the Look ’ , in the way the West Coast power pop of ‘ I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man ’ subsides brilliantly into a brooding meander of acid guitar , in the raga anthem ‘ The Cross , … |
| 13 | Weathering here refers only to the physical agents of sun , wind , rain and temperature change , and the effects of burial in soils ( breakage and corrosion ) will be discussed separately below . |
| 14 | The final draft refers only to the marine environment , which , according to Patricia Bliss-Guest , UNEP 's legal advisor , eliminates large parts of the Gulfs of Mexico , Venezuela , and Campeche , as well as extensive coastal areas throughout the rest of the region . |
| 15 | Instead there is a designer 's travelogue : the production ( no director is listed , but Nigel Jamieson heads the company ) veers all over the Far East and indeed round to the Caribbean . |
| 16 | The most forceful arguments for the period being one of economic growth are those put forward by Bridbury , who points rightly to the phenomenal increases paid by certain towns in taxation between 1334 and 1524 . |
| 17 | This , again , is no declaration of open season ; it points merely to the obvious fact that moral agents must necessarily set the agenda . |
| 18 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 19 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |
| 20 | The triumph of a new ruling class goes together with the eventual emergence of a whole new social structure based on the new mode of production . |
| 21 | It matters little to the efficient running of the Civil Service where the administrative work of a department is carried out . |
| 22 | PASSION AT THE POOLSIDE : Fergie and Johnny enjoy getting down to some serious canoodling as the sun beats mercilessly on the naked pate of the whizzkid from Texas |
| 23 | It should be noted , however , that already with Schumpeter we have moved away from models based on the distinctiveness of the elite characteristic as an explanatory factor , to a lower-level operation which explicitly refers to realistic definitions rather than to explanations , and in which the model , such as it is , looks remarkably like a composite description of liberal democracy . |
| 24 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 25 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 26 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 27 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 28 | The trap looks rather like an open-ended small plastic cloche , and hangs in the tree . |
| 29 | The built-in wooden dresser was already there , as was the exposed brick chimney breast — which , with the cooker slotted into the fireplace , looks rather like an old-fashioned kitchen range . |
| 30 | Like Ride and TFC , Five Thirty have bypassed this year 's indie/dance revolution , basing their success instead on a new guitar-dominated sound that lies somewhere between the caustic experimentation of My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth and the more accessible pop sound of the '60s bands like The Byrds and The Who . |