Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb base] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She raked and kept the gravel sweep as meticulously as she kept her house — a convenient house , its well of water only a field distant . |
| 2 | This gateway provides direct DIS network-attached access to Sybase bases on the IBM machine as well as on a variety of other hardware platforms and operating environments , DIS access to Sybase can be local , LAN-attached or remote . |
| 3 | The commission wants to tie down the December deal as soon as possible . ’ |
| 4 | The objective is to start the budgeting process as late as possible in the preceding year while allowing budget-holders time to agree their budget before the start of the budget year . |
| 5 | But if the club suddenly asked him to strongly consider taking the Blackburn offer then even if he did n't he probably would never have felt the same again about playing for Leeds , ( ie , doubting about management 's loyalty to him , etc . ) |
| 6 | Although plants will add oxygen to the water during the hours of daylight , at night the cycle is reversed and the plants complete more successfully than the fish for available oxygen — this is also true of the so-called ‘ oxygenating plants ’ . |
| 7 | The propagandists go so far as to assume , even to assert , that it would not result in any splitting of the party vote : in other words that votes transferred from Dandy or Deadman or Doughty would go to another of these three running-mates and not elsewhere . |
| 8 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 9 | Critics , however , say that the boats go no faster than those they are trying to catch . |
| 10 | So the reason why males die more readily than females , and this is true for nature by the way , not just human levels , it 's a practical universal effect that the males die more readily than females , that males are ultimately selected for reproductive success for erm survival as such . |
| 11 | Up until the final minutes the jokes fly as fast as sniper 's bullets . |
| 12 | And I want the explosives set as soon as possible . |
| 13 | Everything will be overshadowed by these events but we intend to go on making the week work as well as we can . |
| 14 | Middlemass had finished The Times crossword by quarter to ten and had made the rest of the paper last as long as possible . |
| 15 | The ‘ Lioretograph ’ cylinders were invented by the Frenchman Lioret as early as 1897 . |
| 16 | The jaws appear slightly longer than broad . |
| 17 | The jaws appear slightly longer than broad . |
| 18 | The differences widen even further when account is taken of the more satisfying nature of professional occupations . |
| 19 | The men talk as cheerfully as ever ; jests are bandied about freely ; but to me the cheer is sombre and jests are ghastly . ’ |
| 20 | It is crucial to make progress in completing the Winchester bypass as soon as possible . |
| 21 | Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to . |
| 22 | Once again , the wisecracks fly as fast as the bullets — and are just as deadly . |
| 23 | The gags fly as fast as the bullets . |
| 24 | Lou Duva , co-trainer of Holyfield , might have been cranking the hype handle too far when he said that this evening 's fight might be a once in a lifetime affair . |
| 25 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |