Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your crops fail , or grow much less prolifically than your neighbour 's , then it is due to witchcraft . |
| 2 | As shown in Figure 2 , the CEO sets strategic goals that look ahead as far as 25 years and manages executive vice-presidents ( EVPs ) with responsibility for 12- to 15-year development programs . |
| 3 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 4 | This would explain the one-to-one ratio of infection that exists just as clearly as heterosexual intercourse . |
| 5 | Then immediately ruined the effect of this proud statement by adding , ‘ You tried to use me , ’ in a choked , husky voice that betrayed all too clearly where the real hurt lay . |
| 6 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 7 | All from little deals that pass away quite quietly unless we can bring it to the attention of the public . |
| 8 | Some Labour politicians , including Reg Prentice as a junior minister , wished them to be ‘ required ’ to do this ; Crosland preferred that they should be ‘ requested ’ , determined that empty threats should not be issued or implied and to go forward as fast as he could by agreement and persuasion . |
| 9 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 10 | Disk-resident MIBs will be able to be loaded and activated dynamically as well as unloaded and de-activated in order to free memory . |
| 11 | Disk-resident MIBs will be able to be loaded and activated dynamically as well as unloaded and de-activated in order to free memory . |
| 12 | Surely , if the train were in a station when the emergency occurred , you would get out and run away as fast as possible . |
| 13 | This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him . |
| 14 | I am terrified and run home as fast as I can . |
| 15 | I left the broch and walked uphill as far as I could without disturbing the bird colony , then made my way towards the southern end of the island , where the land sloped gradually down to the sea in long , flat terraces of rock . |
| 16 | The only way to conquer a fear is to face it , and to do so as frequently as possible . |
| 17 | It is the responsibility of the counsellor to move into the difficult area of feelings , and to do so as gently as possible . |
| 18 | They grow and feed just as well as carp fed on a much higher protein diet , only it does not cost as much . |
| 19 | In the event , the compilation of this review proved to be a far more difficult undertaking than I had anticipated — and took far far longer than it should have done . |
| 20 | Overall television fulfilled its public service role of informing the electorate , and did so particularly well as the election drew closer ; while the press fulfilled its self-assigned role as pamphleteers within a libertarian system , and did so with increasing effect as the election drew closer . |
| 21 | ‘ I know , I 'm only a woman but I can make and mend just as well as any man , if not better . ’ |
| 22 | It is because they take to these artificial sites so readily that pied flycatchers have been studied in such detail : breeding in a nest box allows nests to be checked and the adults to be caught and ringed much more easily than if they were in natural cavities . |
| 23 | I 'm glad it went there , because we all got a chance to see it , but the chances are it would have come to us and , and fitted much more snugly if you like . |
| 24 | Our knowledge is bounded by our ideas , and extends only so far as they are ideas of real essences . |
| 25 | The -300bp construct is deleted to a BamHI site which is -300bp from the cap site and extends downstream as far as the RI site in the last exon ( IV ) . |
| 26 | When the old man saw me , he shouted loudly and ran away as fast as he could . |
| 27 | I was so shocked I just turned tail and ran home as fast as I could . |
| 28 | This is undeniably in keeping with the perfect structure of the three quatrains and final couplet to produce an overall symmetry making the poem pleasant to the ear if read aloud as well as to the mind . |
| 29 | Hunter dislocated his shoulder after only 39 minutes of the Lions opening tour match against North Auckland , and returns home tomorrow just as his replacement flies out . |
| 30 | Stumbling to her feet , she picked up the diaries , slipped the clip into the pocket of her dress , and hurried downstairs as fast as she dared go . |