Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [adv] [adj] [noun] " 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 | This knowledge evolves in only one way : by close contact with the technology ( technical local knowledge ) or with the customer ( local market knowledge ) . |
| 4 | It differs in just one step : Instead of add C to the back of OPEN it reads : add C to the front of OPEN |
| 5 | Bath players of recent years have never appeared as convincing for England as they regularly do for Bath ; while if they are part of one of those curious South-West sides their form goes down yet another notch . |
| 6 | Rather the reason lies in very real obstacles to the discovery of what happened . |
| 7 | The equation between study in higher education and social mobility still holds in curiously similar ways . |
| 8 | She stands in very stark contrast to Mrs. Malette in Canada . |
| 9 | The main property , which was built in 1880 and stands in about 60 acres of parkland , has nine bedrooms . |
| 10 | We all know how Service morale is closely related to the standard of food , so it is comforting to conclude that the RAF looks in pretty good shape in 1991 . |
| 11 | The Science Museum set comes from the Guildford Grammar School , and looks in remarkably good order . |
| 12 | The four-year-old car looks in remarkably good condition given its mileage . |
| 13 | ‘ He looks in very good shape and I would be very surprised if he did n't make Britain 's World Championships team . ’ |
| 14 | A recent , more complex example is David Cronenberg 's Dead Ringers ( 1988 ) , which arguably starts off as black comedy but ends as something like black tragedy . |
| 15 | THE highly popular series of Scotsman Literary Lunches starts up again this month with an intriguing trio of authors : the actor Brian Blessed , the agony aunt Claire Rayner and the leading biographer Margaret Forster . |
| 16 | This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping . |
| 17 | The young horse goes through so many learning experiences with us — the discipline of being held still in our arms as a foal , acceptance of being stroked all over and having its legs picked up , learning to lead and to be tied up , and later learning to accept being rugged and lunged . |
| 18 | In a tenth of a second it passes on only six digits of code to other neurones yet the brain works seemingly simultaneously . |
| 19 | 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' . |
| 20 | This effect occurs in practically any room , but it is more noticeable in concert halls or other large rooms , where the indirect sounds have to travel much further than the direct sounds , and are therefore delayed by a much greater amount . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Blue-chequer variant also occurs in quite wild Rock Dove populations . |
| 23 | The source of energy for a muscle contraction is Adenosine Triphosphate ( A.T.P. ) and this occurs in very small amounts in human muscle . |
| 24 | ‘ This car is sex on wheels , ’ she purrs in heavily accented English . |
| 25 | Since then chancellors of the exchequer have been able to put together their annual tax plans in relatively favourable circumstances . |
| 26 | Such an improvement would rewrite the record books , taking perhaps ten minutes off a runner 's marathon time , but E P O can also be deadly , leading to heart attacks and strokes in apparently healthy people . |
| 27 | This happens in nearly all aspects of special education and can occur no matter from which premise we begin . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It happens in too many families . |
| 30 | ‘ It happens in so many countries … aboriginals are oppressed in Australia , Peru , Paraguay , Bolivia , Brazil , Guatemala , Japan and the Philippines . |