Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | alright well we 'll ask this question again then after gone on holiday to the States and see whether |
| 2 | A recent work on political theory in ancient Greece has pursued this question more explicitly than has traditionally been the case in classical scholarship and provides a further check to our ready acceptance of Goody 's grander claims for the consequences of literacy in classical Greece . |
| 3 | Like every other class and institution , the nobility was tested in the crisis of 1808 and the French invasion : it does not seem to have failed in this test as completely as has been asserted . |
| 4 | Yet other Western states , still grappling with the aftermath of 1973 , pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster so as to help their own recovery . |
| 5 | Colin Webley ( 36 ) is another newcomer as far as playing is concerned , although many of you will know him as the chap who did sterling work in the tea hut last season . |
| 6 | War may not be an overall preference ( Lenin was particularly fond of Clausewitz 's remark that the aggressor would prefer to walk in and occupy a foreign territory peacefully rather than fight for it ) ; but if it is the most effective way of achieving an aim , it is necessary to pursue it . |
| 7 | So too has the rise of feminist versions of the nature of parenting , in which , for example , the daily physical care of children has been demystified to lay bare the sheer labour involved , and hence the need to share this burden equally rather than regard it as an unequivocal privilege ( see , for example , Oakley , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | And accordingly , listeners process acoustic information less carefully when dealing with predictable words . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're very much old school as far as playing 's concerned , ’ reckons Robert . |
| 10 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 11 | Afterwards he 'd sworn he would prefer to see any child of his six foot under rather than taken for a nun . |
| 12 | Practise ‘ digging in ’ under attack by sliding the rear foot back slightly while cocking the punching hip . |
| 13 | De Tocqueville made a similar point even earlier when commenting on the individualizing consequences of American democracy : " Aristocracy had made a chain of all the members of the community , from the peasant to the king : democracy breaks that chain and severs every link of it . " |
| 14 | For Christie 's , such sales help raise our European profile as well as assert London as an international centre of the art market . |
| 15 | Irradiation seems to be able to mediate these effects in humans since irradiation for testicular seminoma or teratoma , which includes the spine , leads to duodenal ulcer more frequently than does treatment for the same condition without irradiation . |
| 16 | It is our belief — shared by a number of retailers — that Christmas will prove to be yet another false dawn as far as reawakening consumer confidence is concerned . |
| 17 | The process is technically demanding and time-consuming , to say the least , and puts WABI behind the eight ball as far as staying current with Windows development , a situation Microsoft is likely to exploit . |
| 18 | So also Daniel , walking with Stephanie on Filey beach , had suddenly , out of some metaphorical experience as bodily as breathing , known why love was called " sweet " and , as his blood banged , why a beloved was a " sweet heart " . |
| 19 | In other respects as well , choice theories confine the scope of legal liability more narrowly than do the ‘ harm to interests ’ theories . |
| 20 | In so doing he combined the religious culture of Lérins and the rhetorical culture of Late Antiquity more successfully than had Sidonius . |
| 21 | To deny mothers the opportunity to pursue a useful career as well as bring up their children is wasting their talents . |
| 22 | Harold is a very good prime minister as far as taking the Cabinet goes . |
| 23 | They have to learn a lot of different skills , and also in business nothing happens unless you 're good at organizing teams , so businessmen often get good at working with people , which is , I think , a hugely important experience so far as helping people to grow up is concerned . |
| 24 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 25 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 26 | If the mother or anyone else connected with the birthing process shows any signs of lack of trust , anxiety , fear , pain , etc. take one dose as often as needed , perhaps as often as every 10 minutes , of Rescue Remedy ( one of the Bach Flower remedies ) . |
| 27 | But we can treat the zero exponent on the ladder of powers as the log , since its effect on the shape of data batches fits exactly at this point ; it corrects upward straggle more powerfully than taking roots , but it is not as strong a transformation as the reciprocal root , or reciprocals . |
| 28 | As you know Mr Mayor , we are inside the chamber , do n't believe in spending any more than is absolutely necessary in any part of any budget so rather than spend any extra money we are proposing an extra twenty thousand be taken out of the public conveniences budget . |
| 29 | The Letterewe estate is run as a wilderness area and not as a commercial estate — this is an immense boon as far as preserving the beauty of the area is concerned . |
| 30 | Now er they are then in a situation perhaps often those people who are er less financially well off and sometimes in jobs which this particular might very well lose tomorrow erm their in a difficult situation as far as paying back mortgages is concerned . |