Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be raised or lowered as well as moved horizontally from controls on the platform . |
| 2 | Stroll along any traditional herbaceous border and you will feel the winds of the North American prairies with their heleniums , rudbeckias and michaelmas daisies ( prairies , by the way , that have now all but disappeared ) . |
| 3 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
| 4 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 5 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 6 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 7 | However Ingres reports increasing interest from other sectors and goes so far as to suggest that the Enhanced Security features may become an optional part of the standard Ingres database in the release after next . |
| 8 | In her view , women in rock fought against male supremacy and got little further than choosing their earrings , with the moneymen conspiring to craft an image suitable for their market . |
| 9 | Both grass and clovers recover and grow more quickly when grazed hard for a short period and then rested for two to three weeks than they do under continuous nibbling . |
| 10 | Because prayers had to be stimulated and informed as well as ordered , the preaching role of the church was no less important . |
| 11 | As Miller puts it : ‘ Education is a source of economic growth if it is anti-traditional to the extent that it liberates and stimulates as well as informs the individual and teaches him how and why to make demands upon himself . ’ |
| 12 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |
| 13 | It had fewer reporters , fewer offices and relied more heavily than did the Times on official press releases from the Government and its news agency , ZANA . |
| 14 | Either that or the better-heeled locals enjoy female singers wailing purposefully at their table and moving away only when handed money . |
| 15 | The birds do n't help themselves because when they are frightened they fly into the air and circle around rather than head for the trees . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , as has often happened in developing countries as well , he completely underestimated the people 's desire for land , and went so far as to oppose the implementation of the Land Settlement Act . |
| 17 | For various reasons the main one of which was a lack of understanding of our problems , our local administration were often unsympathetic and went so far as to accuse us of non co-operation at times , especially in the matter of rest days . |
| 18 | Peel reckoned with the prospect of violent conflict between the Government and the trade unions ; and went so far as to enquire into the practicability of organizing the middle classes against them . |
| 19 | But with Barnet owing £1.3million and the players and staff unpaid for three weeks , Stein believes it is unlikely the crisis can be averted and went as far as to wish his players ‘ all the best for the future . ’ |
| 20 | Long and segmented , moving slowly and coiling up tightly when disturbed . |
| 21 | ‘ If you want to sell and get as far as enticing a buyer , whoever it is will have the place surveyed , and any surveyor knowing his job will condemn it out of hand . |
| 22 | He felt as black as John Jasper , and wondered even now whether to switch to The Mystery of Edwin Drood . |
| 23 | John Major did not publicly denounce Mr Churchill , but went as far as hinting that he disapproved . |
| 24 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 25 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 26 | In other words , can the web binding production and consumption be conceived as drawn so tight as to collapse the two together ? |