Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let hair dry naturally as often as you can . |
| 2 | The link between urban form and transport was never clearer , but realizable solutions seemed as far away as ever . |
| 3 | Those aged 2½years or less at the onset of hearing loss fared considerably less well than their older counterparts . |
| 4 | The school parties stuck as rigidly together as they had done upon Victoria Station , lacking only their uniforms and labels , disastrously hampered by lack of space . |
| 5 | The car slowed again more gently as the Annamese driver spotted another group of peasants gathering themselves at the roadside fifty yards ahead . |
| 6 | The trunk was studded with knot-holes spaced for climbing and the naked branches spun upwards as evenly as the treads of a spiral staircase . |
| 7 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 8 | For example in the inter-war period the real/nominal money stock grew much more quickly than real/nominal national income , only for this trend to be reversed after the war . |
| 9 | Some animals move far more efficiently than others , and in general the race is to the big . |
| 10 | A study published in The Lancet in 1987 demonstrated that children with higher lead levels in their blood performed less well intellectually than those with lower levels , and particularly in tests of number skills and reading ability . |
| 11 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
| 12 | She sat in a corner on an antique settle as far away as possible from the blazing open fire . |
| 13 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 14 | This is not a party dominated by technocrats who have fearlessly built great industries , but ‘ Increasingly politicians without a great deal of first-hand experience of the world outside politics are running the country , including the economy , in conjunction with civil servants who similarly lack first-hand experience of the world outside politics , ’ Anthony King noted as long ago as 1981 . |
| 15 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 16 | The men and women of Mandru 's household interacted rather more freely than was common among the upper class of Shanariah . |
| 17 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 18 | Frank Gray flopped all too quickly when his predecessor might have succeeded in taking the same squad to safety . |
| 19 | First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home . |
| 20 | The patrols pass here as regularly as always . |
| 21 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 22 | Scotland went ahead as early as the ninth minute when George Gemmell crashed the ball home after Tom Brown 's cut-back . |
| 23 | Researchers from the Desert Research Institute in Nevada found that electrical conductivity in the ice core fluctuated widely over less than five years . |
| 24 | Labour groups meet significantly more frequently than Conservative groups ( Widdicombe , 1986 , para. 6.59 ) . |
| 25 | Well that was of the interesting things to come out of the study , erm something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 26 | It seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 27 | Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 28 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 29 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 30 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |