Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it 's snowing or blocked by another plane , we have to be able to accept planes again as soon as possible . |
| 2 | and his friends have visited places as far afield as Cherbourg . |
| 3 | There is substantial evidence that work groups detect and remedy mistakes much more quickly than designated ‘ inspectors ’ , saving considerable rework and scrappage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mrs Hollidaye had pointed out how one could see creatures even more clearly when they were silhouetted as in a shadow cut-out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The same applies to the other aspects of early physical care : nature , it appears , has arranged things rather more flexibly and kindly than Freud believed . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Gases are offensive , smells are offensive , grit and dust penetrate houses just as surely as toxic vapours and car fumes . |
| 14 | In some areas of the world , e.g. West Africa , it is helpful to file words not only alphabetically but also according to major word classes , because nouns and verbs have different phonological structures . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Second , the title suggests an assessment of multimedia spanning the decade , examining developments as far ahead as the year 2000 . |
| 19 | But these laws are intended to prevent men from such ‘ wastage ’ of seed , and thus define men much less intrinsically than the blood taboos define women qua women as unclean . |
| 20 | The nuclear industry 's current predicament is usually placed in the context of the near melt-down at Three Mile Island in 1979 and the fatal disaster at Chernobyl , the radioactive fall-out from which was still affecting places as far away as the uplands of Wales and Scotland four years later . |
| 21 | but that 's , would n't affect me because I 'll be taking loans out so there and I can have up to twenty er partners , nineteen in fact , because there 's twenty partners altogether , basically , so there is definitely benefits for being in partnership |
| 22 | In 1934 , P & O , Cunard , Blue Star , Orient and Royal Mail took passengers as far afield as Japan , Australia , and Hawaii . |
| 23 | World champions took matches much less frequently and in between Lynch liked to drink . |
| 24 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 25 | I also knew I was very unlikely to get visitors as far away as Styal . |
| 26 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 27 | So it 's jargon , it 's assuming people will pick things up as quickly as we have and it 's not recognising that people have different interpretations . |
| 28 | Female executives looking for salaries of around £35,000 are finding jobs twice as quickly as their male counterparts . |
| 29 | In contrast , local newspapers tend to take cases much less selectively and on occasions will continue to maintain interest in a case which seems unconnected with any other . |
| 30 | The Profitboss can hire cleaners just as cheaply as a subcontractor , and they 'll take more pride in identifying with him and the company than with some boss once removed . |