Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 2 | Parents may feel upset whatever the age of their teenage daughter , but those with younger daughters are obviously going to react more negatively than those with older teenagers . |
| 3 | I only began to work so hard because it was a way of filling all those empty hours without you . ’ |
| 4 | The fourth boy , however , slipped and fell to his knees and was only beginning to scramble upright again when the fender caught his chest with a thud that shook the vehicle . |
| 5 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 6 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 7 | A unit only continues to operate so long as it is successful . |
| 8 | My heart would suddenly start beating very fast as though my life was beating out of me . |
| 9 | This means the aquarium will not need cleaning as often as a less densely planted one . |
| 10 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 11 | Fourth , spending on front-office systems , such as those supporting foreign exchange , funds and transfer payments , is not expected to grow as fast as that on back-office systems , covering such applications as transaction processing , clearing and settlement . |
| 12 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 13 | This was something which the inhabitants were not going to overlook as lightly as Charles had done . |
| 14 | As a vanguard , in spite of one or two sensational assassinations , it was not going to get very far unless and until it managed to co-ordinate widespread resistance to the French . |
| 15 | So you 've not got to live that long before you 're into profit . |
| 16 | They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins . |
| 17 | Could you all just stop breathing now please till we get home ! |
| 18 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 19 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 20 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 21 | But he did not know him , and would not have cared too greatly if he had . |
| 22 | The Elector Counts could not have done otherwise even if they had wanted ; the people demanded it , and were not to be denied . |
| 23 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 24 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 25 | That his resignation and pilgrimage can not have occurred much later than 844 is indicated by information given by Taskopruzade concerning Molla Fenari 's son , Yusuf Bali , namely that he became kadi of Bursa — no date is given for his appointment — and died as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 26 | Attitudes may not have changed as quickly as some of the tools with which we do the job but there are plenty of examples of progress which deserve credit . |
| 27 | If the buyer believes such an obligation does not exist , then clearly the bill can be ignored and the matter does not proceed further as far as is concerned here . |
| 28 | And Novotna admitted : ‘ I just kept playing as hard as I could . |
| 29 | We can not help signing so long as there is another human being who needs to read the signs . |
| 30 | An interesting sidelight on battlefront conditions came from his remarks that the Peshmerga brought in for attention mainly tended to be suffering from wounds to their limbs from weapons such as Kalashnikovs , since those who sustained head or body injuries generally failed to get as far as a field hospital . |