Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've nothing adverse to report on either the buses or the trains . |
| 2 | And I 've nothing to report on either the trains or the buses . |
| 3 | half G T half G T squared plus some constant times time normally your the the G will be a negative half A T squared but someone had said come up with that equation , and you 've said well what are you going to give me to go on well the acceleration 's constant . |
| 4 | I used to enjoy the singing a lot but sometimes the preachers used to go on quite a bit . |
| 5 | Instead it involves a shift in function in an interactional category , and it is exactly here — in the interactions between individuals — that we would expect to see most clearly the results of inter-ethnic contact . |
| 6 | Zoologists have found the animal difficult to classify in either the genus Felis or Panthera and have given it a new genus , hence Neofelis nebula . |
| 7 | Although the unemployment rate at 9.2 p.c. is , for the first time , on a par with the average in Britain , no serious observer expects it to remain so once the economy as a whole picks up . |
| 8 | It turns out that our animal was able to see in almost every direction — upwards , downwards , sideways and forwards , and even backwards , because the eyes bulged out beyond the line of the rest of the body . |
| 9 | Where is the scientific evidence to support so wide an onslaught ? |
| 10 | The secret is to concentrate on just a couple of areas . |
| 11 | But for their middle-class , middle-aged , CD-buying target audience , such shows , which tend to concentrate on either the roots of popular music or music from the less-developed world , offer the chance to explore the very ‘ essence ’ of a musical culture . |
| 12 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 13 | I dare say that is why you were induced to accept so low a wage . ’ |
| 14 | Would could and should they 're going to come in quite a bit . |
| 15 | When her kindergarten time was up , her parents engaged a modelling tutor to come in twice a week , and she was so good that at the age of 7 she was admitted to the Dover School of Art where she stayed until she was eighteen . |
| 16 | ‘ He used to come in twice a week and was one of our best customers , ’ says manager Moni Ahmed . |
| 17 | I can rely on one of my neighbours to come in once a week to check on things and feed the fish , but he is not a fishkeeper and I 'd like to make things as easy for him as possible . |
| 18 | When faced with what we regard as consummately bad taste , or people who seem to revel in exactly the behaviour we abhor , we often feel revolted , nauseous or acutely embarrassed , as when parents say the wrong thing in front of a child 's peers , or that child is forced to wear clothes whose image he or she rejects . |
| 19 | The more products , the higher number of prospects will be interested , although a balance has to be struck so as not to provide so wide a range as to make it confusing . |
| 20 | We used to come down here every Friday afternoon ! |
| 21 | It was a considerable achievement for a society to pour so much milk , so much orange juice , so many vitamins down the throats of its children , for the height and weight of those children to outstrip so fast the measurements of only a decade before . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , on the material before the court , it was not necessary to impose so long a term of imprisonment . |
| 23 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 24 | He only got started to work just about a couple of years before the war . |
| 25 | The following pages show , on large colour plates , the versatility and sheer brilliance of an artist who has managed to catch not only the feel and technical accuracy of aircraft but also the mood of nature , in every painting . |
| 26 | As The Very Model of a Man is full of angels and story-tellers — two essential ingredients of ‘ magic realism ’ — there is clearly a strong hint that Jacobson is attempting to rewrite not just the Bible but our contemporary literary orthodoxies , which are in danger of assuming the status of a surrogate religion . |
| 27 | What we 're trying to do is to provide not only a stadium but something that everybody will want to use . |
| 28 | It was intended to provide not only a means of cooking but of heating the water we drew from the well . |
| 29 | If one accepts this , even if only for the present and not as an inevitable fact for the future , then a responsibility lies with hearing society to meet not only the communication requirements of deaf people but also to understand and be able to work with this group in their language . |
| 30 | Nowadays museums must sell themselves on the market in order to attract not only the audiences but also sponsors and benefactors . |