Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And is there anyone you know that has just recently got married cos these are areas that obviously |
| 2 | A further revolution that has not yet taken hold widely in Japan is that of networking personal computers and word processors , and one American working for a large Japanese company in Tokyo complained to Reuter of hours spent every day hunting down paper documents written on dedicated word processors and then stuffing them laboriously into facsimile machines — when an efficient personal computer network could save all the effort . |
| 3 | He also refers to research since Saussure that has not necessarily attempted to construct a semiology but has ‘ referred to the problem of meaning : psycho-analysis , structuralism , eidetic psychology , some new types of literary criticism ’ ( Barthes 1973 : 111 ) . |
| 4 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 5 | There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives . |
| 6 | For the last two or three years , Chorus has been involved with Unisys Corp in a technology exchange that has so far failed to produce any significant deliveries . |
| 7 | Certainly the only reasonable explanation for some of these occurrences ( such as those of Peregrinella ) seems to be that the organisms concerned lived in very restricted environments that did not normally get preserved , though this hardly explains their sudden appearance without obvious ancestors , with a wide but discontinuous distribution . |
| 8 | During his session with the unfortunate staff at Caterer and Hotel Keeper he was always wheezing with laughter at something that did not really seem to warrant it . |
| 9 | The growth of the inter-bank market ( see below ) has meant that banks no longer have to rely on attracting deposits to cover their lending . |
| 10 | He felt she was about to laugh aloud and he wanted to join her , his every thought consumed with the miracle that had so suddenly happened to bring Ken back to them . |
| 11 | Surely if someone says ‘ The earth is flat ’ that does not even begin to cause a belief to that effect in me , nor does someone saying ‘ Cruelty is a good thing ’ even begin to cause approval of cruelty in me . |
| 12 | In some cases , the star may explode and throw off enough matter to bring its mass below the limit . |
| 13 | Their freedom to pursue careers and to be liberated from child-care and housework depends on the labour of another woman who , although financially independent , is actually struggling and has yet more work to do when she gets home . |
| 14 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 15 | Equally , psychology has been seeking acceptance as a ‘ real ’ science , and has not therefore wanted to emphasize the social side of human action , but rather the physiological , behavioural and physically measurable aspects of human behaviour . |
| 16 | The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT . |
| 17 | ‘ That the spy here must have special means of conveying such information to his master and has so far failed to use it . |
| 18 | Then common sense and anger got the better of her and she firmed her mouth and concentrated on gently trying to wriggle the key free . |
| 19 | Forget all those tales of our taking our position at dawn and staying there hardly daring to move . |
| 20 | Many men simply assume that women are on the Pill and do n't even bother to ask . |
| 21 | I normally work on a 33MHz 486 , and do n't ever have to wait much for anything to happen . |
| 22 | ‘ What if I go and do n't never get to come back ? ’ said Dot . |
| 23 | I think by and large that will have no effect on us at all , since most of the independent films that we 're responsible for tend to go out under club showings and do not therefore need to have certificates . |
| 24 | At first I was humiliated to tears ; later I became hardened ; later still I accepted it as a fact and did not even try to deny it . |
| 25 | We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded . |
| 26 | She spent seven years working for Harper 's Bazaar as a fashion illustrator , also producing book illustrations , and did not really begin to concentrate on painting until during the war , whilst living near Regent 's Park which inspired the spiky pastoralism which often served as a poignant background to her paintings of children . |
| 27 | She turned and ran with her bike the way she had come , and did n't even stop to jump on again , until the-cows were out of sight round a bend ! |
| 28 | Yet she was n't afraid and did n't even bother to open her eyes to find out if she would have to get up and run with Gloria for the shelters . |
| 29 | Papers abroad realised they just could not match us — and did n't even bother to try . |
| 30 | I have in mind a large ball , organised by and in aid of the Book Trade Benevolent Society ( since it failed to put on its annual Carol Service last month and did n't even bother to tell anyone ) , at which the whole book business could get together and celebrate the introduction of the new VAT regime as a way of warding off the post-Christmas blues . |