Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Normally , the time allotted will not exceed one and a half hours , but I propose to exercise a discretion to allow one or two debates to continue for rather longer , up to a maximum of three hours . |
2 | She always paused for rather too long before answering a question or responding to a remark for she feared that if she answered hastily she would say something unseemly . |
3 | Recent vacancies have also tended to be for rather more senior personnel , quite often specifically seeking out prospective partners , and some have offered salaries of over £70,000 for the right person . |
4 | William Seward , President Lincoln 's Secretary of State , the man who had committed the legendary ‘ folly ’ of buying Alaska for rather more than $7 million , made an even more provocative forecast in the mid-nineteenth century : . |
5 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
6 | It has since been cared for rather better and now appears much improved . |
7 | All the difference in the world between somewhere as spacious as this and a crowded tube carriage . |
8 | Ivashko , 58 , the Ukrainian President for little over a month [ see pp. 37539-40 ; for his resignation on July 18 see below ] , was described by Western commentators variously as a " cautious centrist " and a " pragmatic neo-conservative " , although all were agreed on his staunch support for Gorbachev since being named Ukrainian CP leader in September 1989 [ see p. 36884 ] . |
9 | Maria Morgan , editor of the Guinness Book 's literary section , says of the publishers ' advertisement : ‘ The trouble is that as yet we do n't have a category for most widely read author . |
10 | The unreliability of reported mergers has been argued for most strongly by Labov and his colleagues ( Labov , Yaeger and Steiner , 1972 ; Labov , 1975 etc. ) , and for inner-city Belfast it can be argued that meat is not really merged with mate , despite the fact that people believe that it is a merger . |
11 | A few made a short journey , for most privately owned butchers , there were still over twenty of them in the city , operated their own slaughterhouses . |
12 | It 's based on an allowance of 1200cals a day , which should produce a good , steady rate of weight loss for most moderately overweight women ( men should allow an extra 300cals a day ) . |
13 | It is n't always easy for anyone to get to the bottom of every detail of a bill er which refers to earlier legislation and erm er er I 'm sure that my Noble Friend would sympathise anyhow erm er er w with with me insofar as I also do not have the advantage of er legal qualifications which he manages to make up for most adequately . |
14 | This ability is accounted for most simply if we assume that the recruits have mental maps of the surroundings on which they somehow ‘ place ’ the spots indicated by the dances . |
15 | Initially they were applied to facilities working on the development of new medicinal products but fairly quickly they were applied to safety development work for most environmentally important chemicals . |
16 | The capital asset of the farms had little importance for most yet in some areas the value must have been substantial . |
17 | Bibliographic citations , adequate for most commonly used bibliographic packages , in either a free or a tightly structured format ; and , |
18 | But the proposal most likely to win the leadership 's backing is the one which carries the potential for most substantially diminishing trade union power . |
19 | For most fairly pure crystalline solids , however , the grain-boundaries are quite strong and , for a hard brittle material , a polycrystalline solid may be regarded as behaving in a manner comparable to whiskers and other single crystals and this , as we have seen , is very like the way glass behaves . |
20 | There were only four fights , proper fights , that is , one house burned — and that was an accident that Ewan apologised for most handsomely next day — nobody killed , and just six men what you might call damaged . |
21 | ‘ I expect you have plenty to think about right now . ’ |
22 | ( 1985 ) presented evidence that inhibitory training procedures produce a CS- that is subsequently learned about rather slowly even when the test procedure was one that required further inhibitory learning . |
23 | Now , as we have already seen , such a monotraumatic theory holds perfectly well for archaic societies , like those in Australia , and explains a great deal about most other primitive cultures ( especially those with initiation ) , and even quite a lot about rather more advanced ones . |
24 | It 's fair to say , however , that he put himself about rather more in the red and white of Sunderland than he did on Tuesday in the orange of the Liberal Democrats . |
25 | This makes perfect sense for right now — it 's just what the doctor ordered for all of us . ’ |
26 | A mixture of God-fearing gospel , bare-knuckled blues and solid Southern tried and tested rock'n'roll that brings to mind such masterworks as Big Star 's ‘ Sister Lovers ’ and the Stones ' ‘ Exile On Main Street ’ , in short , this is a classic rock record for right now ! |
27 | Filip acknowledged that ‘ there will be more competition [ with the 9000 ] over time , but for right now , we 're focused on the Unix market . ’ |
28 | In fact you wo n't be able to get through right now but keep on calling , that 's and we 'll send you a pair of tickets , we need your postcode and we 'll send 'em first class . |
29 | But but if you if you wanted to er come and meet me from work we could go straight off somewhere then . |
30 | My other one 's about somewhere too , little Sergio . |