Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method used to detect DNA bending depends on the principle that a bend near the end of a restriction fragment causes a less pronounced reduction in electrophoretic mobility as compared to a bend in the middle . |
| 2 | Insider trading on undisclosed information causes a more gradual adjustment in share prices than if the information is made public ( Manne , 1966 , p.87 ) . |
| 3 | In addition , the drag of the airbrakes causes a more rapid deceleration . |
| 4 | It causes sores on the lips , face , eyes , and mouth , on the genitalia , occasionally elsewhere on the skin , and rarely causes a very serious infection in the central nervous system of the newborn . |
| 5 | It 's being it is being prescribed t for huge numbers of people , it 's being promoted as a very safe drug , it 's a very profitable drug , and we already know that it causes a very large number of quite serious side effects . |
| 6 | Oxfam NoLoGo has succeeded in making the concept of recycling fun and giving charity shops a completely new look . |
| 7 | Patrick O'Brian surmounts a more difficult problem in a scene where Aubrey and Maturin exercise their passion for music in the captain 's cabin . |
| 8 | This covers a remarkably wide field starting at the installation , calibration and purely functional end of flight recorders and leading on through their recovery from the wreckage and the techniques of repairing and reading damaged recordings to the ultimate interpretation of the spoken words and environmental noises in the cockpit and the determination of the aerodynamic implications of recorded data . |
| 9 | Definition of need covers a very wide range and applies , among others , to problems connected with : health , housing , care of an elderly or disabled relative , as well as widowhood and problems encountered by the frail elderly who for example may require extra heating during the winter . |
| 10 | SOURCE the most common type which covers a very broad range of software , not necessarily restricted to programming code . |
| 11 | The only reason for not beginning your diary straight away is if the next seven to ten days covers a really unusual time , for example your annual holiday , or a bout of sickness , or Christmas and New Year . |
| 12 | When someone Takes the Side of the Other they may not be developing something totally novel , in the sense that the classic experimental subject , who shows attitude-change , incorporates a totally new piece of information . |
| 13 | This mirrors a highly successful scheme previously used by the Germans . |
| 14 | But this oversimplifies a more complex situation . |
| 15 | This diagram necessarily oversimplifies a very complicated set of operations . |
| 16 | All of the characters are strong and stay basically in the same tone except for Estella who undergoes a very sudden character change in the revised ending . |
| 17 | Behind the NAP 's growing visibility lies a carefully engineered cash machine , founded in the social therapy practice . |
| 18 | But here in the valley lies a completely different countryside , smaller and more delicate . |
| 19 | So you see , beneath that calm exterior lies a highly unstable child . |
| 20 | But behind the expressed reasons for antagonism or inertia in the face of proposals for harmonization lies a more fundamental consideration . |
| 21 | Ambiguities of this kind constantly disturb our attempts to describe the social organization of Europe at this time ; and behind them all lies a more fundamental uncertainty . |
| 22 | This is familiar David Lynch territory : beneath the reassuringly kitschy exterior of ‘ home sweet home ’ lies a potentially life-threatening world of violent urges and toxic substances . |
| 23 | IT IS not long before anyone interested in wildlife photography discovers that behind every good picture lies a fairly heavy investment in film ( to allow for the shots that did not work ) and a nigh on infinite amount of both time and patience . |
| 24 | Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life . |
| 25 | There may well be room for one or two such centres in other places , but in our view the success of the centre in Birmingham owes a very great deal to the almost evangelical enthusiasm of those who run it . |
| 26 | It wants a more detailed report , but Llewellyn , though free now to continue playing , will eventually be subject to the same disciplinary measures as a player sent off at home . |
| 27 | Either way , in this masculine imaginary the vagina signifies a most disturbing absence , a hole which is also privation , deficiency , lack , a negativity which engulfs and vitiates what is full . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that it contains a remarkably comprehensive account of what we know now about the weather and its causes in these islands , including what can be done with satellite observations . |
| 29 | The report of this body , which did not appear until 1909 , contains a most thorough discussion of British social policy at that time . |
| 30 | It contains a carefully balanced range of essential vitamins A to E in the proportions that a growing child needs . |