Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technology differs fundamentally from the more domestically familiar teletext systems , Ceefax and Oracle ( see Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 2 | Afraid that she might have hurt Nora , who was sitting very quietly , Louise added , ‘ Of course , she 'll miss you but I do think she could stay on for a little longer , to see what might happen . ’ |
| 3 | He knew he was very much in the reckoning to skip a Northern Ireland rink in next year 's Commonwealth Games in Canada and yesterday 's double defeat could well be talked about when the Irish selectors sit down in the not too distant future to pick their side . |
| 4 | This fits in with the traditionally tight control that local authority finance directors like to keep . |
| 5 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 6 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |
| 7 | A group of 25 communicators , sociologists and people from the religious communities of North America and Asia have agreed on specific plans to work together for a more just global communication environment . |
| 8 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 9 | Increasingly , as penetration of the West European markets on any large scale failed to materialise , the German states looked eastwards to the less socially advanced , less well-organised societies along their borders . |
| 10 | Try to find out at the very least what position the interviewer holds with the company and whether you will be working directly with him or her . |
| 11 | Using a non-brittle stone , such as jade , shaping could only be carried out by the infinitely more laborious process of grinding . |
| 12 | If Celtic Christianity drew heavily on Egypt , it also drew heavily on the more explicitly heretical traditions of Syria , Asia Minor and Mesopotamia . |
| 13 | The burning of energy and the consequent production of pollutants just for frivolous enjoyment , does not seem to sit comfortably alongside the much more serious objective of sustainability . |
| 14 | The progressively more strident and bellicose demands of Nazi Germany were matched only by the progressively more acquiescent and neutralist responses of France and Great Britain . |
| 15 | Gordon John Sinclair is Gregory , a gangling , amiable misfit who falls in love with Dee Hepburn but eventually cops off with the infinitely more desirable Clare Grogan on a balmy evening in East Kilbride — which looks like heaven . |
| 16 | But it is equally true that there is no way of foreseeing the health status of the very elderly of 2010 or 2022 ; people grown up in the historically exceptionally prosperous period since World War Two may have very different health expectations than those currently aged over 75 who were born before 1911 in a very different environment from the present . |
| 17 | Amitha : Then the Union Working Party on EOP in which the three of us were involved came up with a very well worked-out response to the EOP Code of Practice on Recruitment and Selection Procedures . |
| 18 | Erm I did n't spot the tentative benefit , I do n't think you actually got that bit as far as what was gon na be in it because when erm Steve came up with the why so long I think that , that took you off the track a bit . |
| 19 | After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ . |
| 20 | McDonald 's came out as the most parentfriendly restaurant , with Forte as the best hotel chain . |
| 21 | They mounted a bloody attack throughout that month and the next , directed mainly at the ironically aptly named hill of Mort Homme — the dead man — on the river 's left bank , and at the Côte du Poivre . |
| 22 | I was n't entirely convinced by the ‘ unique ’ bit : it came across as a slightly better than average bottled beer , with possibly a stronger flavour than some . |
| 23 | I was n't entirely convinced by the ‘ unique ’ bit : it came across as a slightly better than average bottled beer , with possibly a stronger flavour than some . |
| 24 | I was n't entirely convinced by the ‘ unique ’ bit : it came across as a slightly better than average bottled beer , with possibly a stronger flavour than some . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 26 | The expense of necessary heating and drying is not only considerable , but is ultimately hopeless — it is not a tax which in any way augments a person 's living standards , but , like protection money , merely staves off for a little longer an absolute loss . |
| 27 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 28 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 29 | PJ , however , is lining up with the very best . |
| 30 | Some years earlier , the same issues had been opened up from a more consciously theological angle by the Halle professor Martin Kähler . |