Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A side-effect of the right of citizens to make foreign exchange deposits has been that , as inflation has continued and accelerated , the dinar value of these deposits has grown much more rapidly than the value of dinar assets held by households . |
| 2 | I did n't see why I should enjoy living again so soon when poor Catherine had had all that she valued slowly torn away from her … ’ |
| 3 | Since the stock of dinar assets held by households has risen much more slowly than this , the proportion of household assets held in foreign exchange accounts has steadily grown : while in 1980 this proportion was less than 40 per cent , by the end of 1986 it had reached nearly 70 per cent . |
| 4 | He has ventured as far afield as Cathay and Lustria and has aided armies both human and High Elf against the forces of evil . |
| 5 | Guildford has counted almost as fast as Torbay — but not quite . |
| 6 | Greek and Roman objects were the first works the Met acquired after its founding in 1870 , but in recent years the department has figured far less prominently than other areas which have undergone elaborate reinstallation . |
| 7 | I want to cry very much now because I think I 'm admitting to myself that , no matter what happens , lift is never going to be the same again . |
| 8 | The work started in northern Scotland and has progressed southwards as far as North Wales . |
| 9 | Has worked as far afield as the University of Otago [ New Zealand ] . |
| 10 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 11 | If Alan heard , he remained silent , probably resolving to get ashore as quickly as possible . |
| 12 | However he just wants to get away as fast as he can . |
| 13 | Consulate staff in Riyadh confirm Mr Devine wants to get home as soon as possible so he wo n't appeal , although back in Britain , his MP is pressing the Foreign Office to intervene . |
| 14 | Look , I just want to get home as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Another is that it has survived this far only because of a remarkable social cohesiveness ( in which traditional fatalistic passivity may have played an important part ) . |
| 16 | With every nerve straining to turn tail and run , she 'd backed away as quietly as possible and once she was out of earshot raced back down to the beach to find the tide had turned . |
| 17 | A fair bit of pressure is needed to get the chips securely seated and a broken motherboard tends to perform rather more slowly than a complete one ! |
| 18 | We were going to travel together as far as Paris , I was to go on to Calais . |
| 19 | The fall in birth rate , the growth of the elderly population , the rise in the divorce rate , the increase in the number of one-parent families and other factors leading to lower average household size , along with such developments as the increase in the number of working wives , can not have taken place without having measurable effects on the geographical distribution of population , especially since , as argued in the previous chapter , these changes have tended to occur much more rapidly than the housing stock can adjust to their new requirements . |
| 20 | I not only want to get married but I fully intend to do so as soon as possible , and to you , not to Dana . |
| 21 | He chose to be a marine engineer reckoning to go as far away as possible from the wastes of Leith and hoping to see the world . |
| 22 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
| 23 | It keeps walking straight ahead even after it has found a bit of food . |
| 24 | When Rebus joined the group I began to tremble nearly as badly as the red-haired foreigner . |
| 25 | Black staff should not have to train twice as hard as their white colleagues . |
| 26 | The Yorkshire boxers ' misfortune at having to box twice so soon before the N-E Counties finals can only help the N-E division winners , who laid on another fine night of boxing at Gateshead Leisure Centre on Friday . |
| 27 | On slightly narrower 165/65 section tyres it seems to grip almost as well as the G40 , while its steering seems , if anything , a tad sharper . |
| 28 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 29 | Through the winter months , the larger firms gave further assurances that they were willing " to take immediate steps for the gradual reduction of female comps " ; some it seems went even so far as to dismiss women . |
| 30 | Having made a decision on travel as their retirement hobby , they may have to live very modestly so as to finance their trips overseas . |