Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun also claims it has shipped 70,000 Sparc 10 multiprocessing-capable machines to owners that are just now beginning to see the advantages of going to multiprocessing . |
| 2 | The most risky situations , high risk exemplars of high risk junctions are given significantly more descriptions that are clearly not related to risk than any other type of situation . |
| 3 | But those that are less well adapted do not . |
| 4 | Silver amalgam is still used in teeth in the rear of the mouth , but even then there are aesthetic considerations favouring the use of tooth-coloured polymer-ceramic composites that are now routinely used to repair front teeth . |
| 5 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 6 | The fact that Christians find themselves caught up with a religion that is no longer related to work or community life , but instead to leisure , tells us something about the whole process of privatisation . |
| 7 | Also from Indonesia comes galangal , an underground stem that is very close related to root ginger . |
| 8 | All these women are expressing a primal female energy that 's perhaps unconsciously trying to balance out the spirit of rock , super-macho style . |
| 9 | She drew back , rejecting this warmth that was so obviously designed to undermine her determination . |
| 10 | Cereals and root vegetables make the largest contribution , and are most often cooked to aid digestion . |
| 11 | In the first , medical advisers with a reasonable workload have developed good relationships with practices and are now well placed to advise on prescribing . |
| 12 | However , the diagnostic tables are of a theoretical nature and are often not updated to reflect practical experience . |
| 13 | A prior , and misleading , assumption that the levels of direct taxation in Britain were very high has been eroded as levels of direct taxation have progressively been reduced in the 1980s , whilst the rates of indirect taxation — which are paid on goods and services and are therefore not levied according to income but according to expenditure — have increased . |
| 14 | Unlike predicates , they have no " gaps " as part of their logical structure and are therefore naturally fitted to play the role of subjects . |
| 15 | The threat , however , was apparent from the outset , for Montrose 's enemies the Campbells had been actively attempting to disappoint the duke 's recommendation , and were thus well placed to take full advantage of any subsequent trouble to strengthen Argyll 's following and weaken the interest of the family of Montrose . |
| 16 | As Allen Saddler 's notice so rightly says , many of the Labour MPs who swept to power in 1945 had come through J.P.M. 's schools and were thus well armed to fight for the legislation which so transformed society after the second world war . |
| 17 | The time is still too uncomfortably close when women had to fight to have jobs at all and were even then expected to abandon them once they married and had children . |
| 18 | Luis Vargas , an Archuar Indian , said that Indians no longer wanted British Gas on their land and were no longer prepared to negotiate with the company , " British Gas has done a lot of damage in our forest " he said . |
| 19 | Some teachers felt that the advisers were out of touch with the problems they were having in this respect and saw more oral work as an unrealistic expectation — that pupils did not consider oral as work and were often not prepared to listen , thus to try to do it would only be creating problems . |
| 20 | Although many of them had starved in the past and were therefore well equipped to recognize starvation now that they had met it again . |
| 21 | Saltpetre , or potassium nitrate , is a preserving salt usually available only at a chemist 's or pharmacy and is most commonly used to preserve the pink colour of pickled or salt beef . |
| 22 | The Manchester United star was diagnosed as having meningitis and is only now starting to battle back to full fitness after having the fright of his young life . |
| 23 | The ETC has been successfully established for several years and is very well equipped to provide all travel needs at the most competitive prices . |
| 24 | The only thing which was missing was the recognised transport qualification , a Certificate of Professional Competence , so , determined not to let this official piece of paper prevent her from doing the job she undertook a study course and was soon legally qualified to run the fleet . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards Dudley tried to waylay Oliver after school , and was probably about to suggest meeting behind the bike sheds with knuckledusters at noon when Oliver punched him in the throat . |
| 26 | The morphology of the alveolar clivus supports this alternative , in which case Graecopithecus can be interpreted as a fossil hominine , but there is a possibility that this morphology represents an ancestral great ape character which was primitively retained in Graecopithecus and the hominines ( and was independently further modified to produce the more derived orang-utan condition ) . |
| 27 | But Wilkinson considered this incident , along with subsequent events , as part of Cantona 's ‘ Le Brat ’ antics — and was no longer prepared to tolerate them . |
| 28 | It was held that the expert was bound to maintain the confidentiality of the information and was accordingly not entitled to use the information for the purpose of making a television film . |
| 29 | By contrast , Dr Alison McHardy , also a post-graduate , comments briefly : ‘ I never lived in and was certainly never made to feel welcome ’ . |
| 30 | Only at the French chateau of Montagu House in Whitehall ( 1859 ) , where he owed a particular allegiance to his great patron the Duke of Buccleuch and was ever hard put to please his Duchess , was he again truly still at the height of his powers . |