Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore s. 2(4) European Communities Act 1972 provides that any Act of the Westminster Parliament shall be presumed not to conflict with EEC legislation , and will be given effect only so far as it does not conflict with the EEC legislation . |
| 2 | Whether it 's snowing or blocked by another plane , we have to be able to accept planes again as soon as possible . |
| 3 | In the first place , even in the early 1980s , the more rural areas were still gaining population far more rapidly than the nation as a whole , and the more general process of deconcentration from the metropolitan counties and from the largest settlements in non-metropolitan counties was still continuing apace . |
| 4 | ‘ I think women probably want sex far more often than men think they do . |
| 5 | He last tasted success as long ago as last January in the Asian Open . |
| 6 | A declaration of dominance , of the attitude that had accepted Darwin only so long as his ideas could be misrepresented in shuffling the animal kingdom into a league table with man several steps above its head , almost within touching distance of God . |
| 7 | and his friends have visited places as far afield as Cherbourg . |
| 8 | There is substantial evidence that work groups detect and remedy mistakes much more quickly than designated ‘ inspectors ’ , saving considerable rework and scrappage . |
| 9 | The central irony of the courtroom crusade — what might be termed " the Spycatcher effect " — is always present : seek to suppress a book by legal action because it tends to corrupt , and the publicity attendant upon its trial will spread that assumed corruption far more effectively than its quiet distribution . |
| 10 | Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected . |
| 11 | Scott 's target : Scott Hastings , the Lions and Scottish centre who broke his cheekbone against Otago last weekend , rejoined the Lions today keen to play rugby again as soon as possible . |
| 12 | Lions and Scottish centre who broke his cheekbone against Otago last weekend , rejoined the Lions yesterday keen to play rugby again as soon as possible . |
| 13 | I suppose it 's something to do with me being happy , being married , knowing where I am : I can see things more clearly now than I used to . |
| 14 | I now feel I understand people much more now than I did before . |
| 15 | Mrs Hollidaye had pointed out how one could see creatures even more clearly when they were silhouetted as in a shadow cut-out . |
| 16 | Large chains can keep track of shoppers ' preferences daily , enabling central merchandisers to predict selling trends far more accurately than the average store manager could hope to do . |
| 17 | Tickets , if available , can be purchased in person from Monday 8th June from the York Festival & Mystery Plays Caravan in Parliament Street , central York open 10.00am–8.00pm daily as well as by post or telephone from the YEMF Office |
| 18 | It was taken instead in Gateshead thus depriving Darlington of the chance to have its name on a picture which would adorn walls as far apart as Headingley pavilion and West Indian embassies in Washington . |
| 19 | She knew what this man was , knew he was capable of raiding hearts just as easily as nightclubs , yet here she was all but melting away because he 'd touched her ! |
| 20 | In Uruguay a junta that fought subversion almost as brutally as Argentina 's collapsed under its own disagreements in 1984 . |
| 21 | And because the upper limit of a microscope 's resolving power depends on the wavelength of the waves illuminating the object under study , Sokolov suggested that an acoustic microscope should in theory be able to resolve images just as well as the standard optical system . |
| 22 | It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course . |
| 23 | ‘ He killed Robin just as surely as he murdered Marion . |
| 24 | If initiatives of this kind are sustained , and matched by measures which increase the informals ' security once they are in business , the sector can certainly gather greater strength and has the potential to generate jobs almost as fast as the urban population grows , but at very low levels of income , and in the form of enterprises where investment and technology is minimal . |
| 25 | Gases are offensive , smells are offensive , grit and dust penetrate houses just as surely as toxic vapours and car fumes . |
| 26 | A direct question may not always be the ideal approach — a hint or oblique reference can sometimes be better — but a direct approach will gain response much more often than people think . |
| 27 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 28 | The processors themselves are linked by a mesh of point-to-point connections , which carry localised traffic between co-operating processors far more efficiently than a shared bus . |
| 29 | ‘ Although the majority of our business is in London , we do have customers as far away as Australia , North America and the Middle and Far East . |
| 30 | She also found no food preferences associated with shell colour ( i.e. pigmented whelks did not select mussels any more often than white ones did ) . |