Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of the contrast most commonly given use relative clauses as in ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , containing a restrictive and a non-restrictive relative , respectively : ( 1 ) silk which comes from Thailand is taxed more heavily than Malaysian silk ( 2 ) silk , which is a natural fibre , incurs less tax than artificial fabrics There are , of course , certain linguistic devices in English which can help to indicate which interpretation is intended ( though surprisingly few , given that the difference in effect can sometimes be considerable ) . |
| 2 | ‘ They mean shit right now . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're in deep shit right now . |
| 4 | As the sign for Piccadilly Circus flashed by I braved the warm draught on the platform again and on my way to the National Gallery I passed Trafalgar Square where I observed the pigeons strangely doing the same things I had seen just moments before , except of course rather less ‘ chicly ’ . |
| 5 | Er no I 'll give it a miss right now thankyou . |
| 6 | Warm hands spanned her ribcage , and worked the fabric of her shirt slowly upwards . |
| 7 | Soaking : A valuable technique rarely fully exploited . |
| 8 | Because of its large distance from the Sun Jupiter moves around its orbit rather slowly , and therefore the intervals between oppositions as seen from the Earth ( the synodic orbital period ) are only about a month longer than a year . |
| 9 | CALLAHAN : Tom 's copping his karma right now . |
| 10 | First published in 1962 and now in its 4th edition ( 1980 ) , this fulfils a role as a reference text rather better than a student text , in that it has hundreds of references but no problems . |
| 11 | Watkins says SunSoft is happy to support what SunSelect offers in the way of MS-DOS emulation right now , but adds that if another firm comes up with better technology at a lower price ‘ we 'd be stupid not to do business with them . ’ |
| 12 | The third view of the company is one which has prevailed in the academic literature rather more forcefully than in company law doctrine itself . |
| 13 | As long as your amp is high enough to support your guitar properly then GuitaRest does exactly the same job as a guitar stand — except that it 's neater , lighter , takes up less space , costs less than most and also incorporates a recess to accommodate your armoury of assorted plectra . |
| 14 | Aleksandrova rather confusingly calls the northern and southern belts arctic tundra and subarctic tundra , separating them by the 6°C July isotherm . |
| 15 | There were a lot of street girls and petty criminals , he called them his pros and cons , but one of them had seen my daughter Pippa a week earlier in a cafeteria somewhere near . |
| 16 | The isotope most commonly used for measurement of colonic transit is 9 9 m Tc-DTPA in liquid form , or it may also be incorporated into ispaghula husk to simulate the physical properties of faeces more closely . |
| 17 | After all , she needed protection right now . |
| 18 | That is the large reason why she is there , with about 25 other people waiting quietly to one side of the altar in the church which has become the place in the city where freedom most nearly is . |
| 19 | Nothing would , in our belief , conduce more to the unity and harmony of the nation than a public policy directed to the provision of equal intellectual opportunities for all , and service to this end would be doubly effective if it came voluntarily as from those who have already received their inheritance , and desire to share with the rest of their countrymen that in which their life and freedom most truly consist . |
| 20 | Many people spend money chronologically rather than strategically , with the result that they run out before they 've done everything . |
| 21 | Tallboy was n't sure how to judge his superior 's tone but he needed a fillip to his esteem right now so he looked on the bright side . |
| 22 | The variety of routes taken by couples make it impossible to track the course most frequently taken . |
| 23 | He accuses Lenin of seeing the problem in terms of organizational change rather then ‘ in terms of a genuine political mediation process ’ ( p. 224 ; see also Krygier 1979c , pp. 86–7 ) . |
| 24 | The same is true when someone has died in hospital or hospice rather unexpectedly . |
| 25 | It may be the case rather generally that male fieldworkers find it difficult to gain access to a domestic setting particularly if they are visiting women during the day when the man of the house is at work . |
| 26 | ‘ Twenty Years Ago ’ , which conveys the sense of a generational decline , is the slogan most commonly employed . |
| 27 | The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings . |
| 28 | At the other , encoders wishing to ensure that their texts can be used for the widest range of applications , will want provide a level of detailed documentation approximating to the kind most often supplied in the form of a manual . |
| 29 | Otherwise we would n't be standing on this deck right now . ’ |
| 30 | verdict rather like it in er section eight of . |