Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London now trades on about 16 times historic earnings — cheaper than in New York certainly but less so when better earnings forecasts are taken into account . |
| 2 | The promotion , with the banner ‘ Fresh Talent ’ , will run from 20th January to 10th March and will be backed by a major nationwide author tour , and p.o.s. , front-of-shop and window displays in nearly 500 branches of the WHS chain . |
| 3 | Rather the reason lies in very real obstacles to the discovery of what happened . |
| 4 | The equation between study in higher education and social mobility still holds in curiously similar ways . |
| 5 | The main property , which was built in 1880 and stands in about 60 acres of parkland , has nine bedrooms . |
| 6 | In a tenth of a second it passes on only six digits of code to other neurones yet the brain works seemingly simultaneously . |
| 7 | Melchiori in one place actually describes ‘ the I ’ as being ‘ the poet who voices his own feelings ’ , and says that the absence of the I form in some sonnets ‘ is an impediment to the dialogue , to the theatrical quality ’ , which he describes in disappointingly literal terms : ‘ Normally in Shakespeare 's Sonnets we find a truly dramatic dialogue between two characters : the persona of the poet himself ( the speaking I , not the man William Shakespeare ) ’ — a welcome disclaimer ! — ‘ and a ‘ you ’ , the actor playing the role of a lovely boy , a worthy or unworthy mistress , possibly a rival poet' . |
| 8 | Digestion occurs in approximately equal numbers at the tips of the incisors and along their lengths , 32 per cent at the tips only , 36 per cent at both the tips and along the lengths of the incisors , and 32 per cent along the lengths only and not at the tips . |
| 9 | The source of energy for a muscle contraction is Adenosine Triphosphate ( A.T.P. ) and this occurs in very small amounts in human muscle . |
| 10 | Since then chancellors of the exchequer have been able to put together their annual tax plans in relatively favourable circumstances . |
| 11 | This happens in nearly all aspects of special education and can occur no matter from which premise we begin . |
| 12 | They agree that skill requirements are reduced as mechanisation moves through the first three stages , but part company in their interpretation of what happens in fully automated plants , Bright claiming that , because the machinery becomes virtually self-sufficient in terms of needing no worker input , such work that does remain is subject to more centralised control and closer supervision even though the tasks to be performed may have become more sophisticated . |
| 13 | It happens in too many families . |
| 14 | ‘ It happens in so many countries … aboriginals are oppressed in Australia , Peru , Paraguay , Bolivia , Brazil , Guatemala , Japan and the Philippines . |
| 15 | Consequently , norm development occurs over very long periods , and often very old behaviour patterns are preserved long after they have ceased to be relevant . |
| 16 | the same work passes through too many hands ; and |
| 17 | The years go by and the Collector undoubtedly felt , as many of us feel , that one uses up so many options , so much energy , simply in trying to find out what life is all about . |
| 18 | He forecast : ‘ This Treaty will end in tears it is better that it ends in tears now than it ends in very bitter tears in five , ten or 15 years . ’ |
| 19 | Today , our country cuts down about 200,000 hectares of forest each year . |
| 20 | The second Tyrannicide pair exists in fairly complete copies in Naples ( probably from Hadrian 's Villa at Tivoli ) and fragments of others . |
| 21 | South and south-west of Sézanne , the chalk subsoil exists in fairly large pockets , broken up by marl , clay , sandstone , sandy-clay and sand . |
| 22 | The fungi grows in just these sites in wild cockroaches . |
| 23 | In the Seine and Loire valleys , for instance , the presence of Viking warbands over fairly long periods may well have stimulated local producers and sellers of horses and weapons and , above all , food and drink . |
| 24 | Mr Hovey 's survey of 61 female nurses and senior student nurses , 39 male nurses and senior student nurses and 19 doctors highlighted concerns over how male nurses are viewed by the US public . |
| 25 | As for hitting the post — that levels out over 13 games ! 1/4 of the season and Deano sure looks behind schedule … |
| 26 | forms on slightly bigger pieces of paper I think . |
| 27 | The Volvo tour takes in solidly Socialist villages like Senghenydd and Abertridwr , includes a couple of detours for navigational error ( ‘ I 'm new here ’ says Stan ) and ends back at the station with just seconds before the train departs . |
| 28 | The chromatographer 's favoured solvent now is dichloromethane , of which Hull gets through over 1000 bottles a year . |
| 29 | Biotechnology opens up almost unlimited possibilities . |
| 30 | Firestone sees women as suffering ‘ emotionally , psychologically ’ ( 1971 : 232 ) as well as economically and culturally , and points out how western women 's postwar conflicts have been psychologically entrenched , through for instance myths of romance . |