Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did it fail to achieve representation ( not surprising at under 1 per cent of the vote ) but it has since fallen apart in a long series of internecine conflicts ( which are too complex to describe here ) . |
| 2 | Again , many decisions which are successfully carried out in a given period may not turn out to have been the best possible courses of action . |
| 3 | Even so-called ‘ fundamentalists ’ usually insist that although it is an axiom of faith that God really created the world , he did not necessarily do so in a literal six days of twenty-four hours each . |
| 4 | It will not necessarily do so in a judicial manner ; a matter with party political implications may well result in voting following party lines . |
| 5 | Back foot is the last into the footstraps and is only used there in a strong wind ( Force 4 & plus ) |
| 6 | It was all wrapped up in a knotted kerchief . |
| 7 | Drawing once again on the detective genre , Pynchon complicates the linear hunt for information , partly by rendering every detail as ambiguous as possible and partly by having Oedipa literally go round in a huge circle when she is pursuing an ‘ underground ’ mail courier . |
| 8 | A more fundamental reason for the failure of these control bodies is suggested by the Spanish case : they can only operate effectively in a propitious political environment . |
| 9 | But the next thing we knew he was all kitted out in a blue and white sailor suit , smelling sweetly of baby lotion and with not a wet patch to be seen . |
| 10 | Also , most prey can only flee fast in a forward direction , so attacking the head is the best way of hampering their escape . |
| 11 | Mum kept out of sight until he had left , then down the stairs she came , all dressed up in a long black taffeta dress , which rustled when she moved . |
| 12 | If you find such terms as ‘ Uniform Edition ’ , ‘ Valima Edition ’ , ‘ Border Edition ’ ( and even ‘ Author 's Edition ’ ) you will almost certainly be correct in deciding that the volume can not be a ‘ first ’ but forms part of a , later collected edition , all dressed up in a special format — a ‘ uniform ’ , in fact . |
| 13 | I would have smiled at the Kafkaesqueness of the situation , had I not broken out in a cold sweat and had I at that stage not been ignorant of Kafka 's existence . |
| 14 | The problem in relation to deaf people is nevertheless a challenging one since not only is their language different in vocabulary and grammar from spoken languages but it is also largely carried out in a different medium . |
| 15 | The firm should normally act only in a professional or agency role . |
| 16 | We should normally act only in a professional or agency capacity in connection with negotiations ( ie not as principal ) and the client for whom we are acting should be clearly identified . |
| 17 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | Interference and ghost images caused by reflections of the received signal are more easily cancelled out in a digital television . |
| 19 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 20 | However disguised they may be , those are very big tax increases , of a kind which governments can normally introduce early in a parliamentary term only . |
| 21 | The British constitution is not written down in a single legal document which enjoys a special political status above ordinary law . |
| 22 | A limitation of standard costing is that , since all the overheads must be absorbed by the products to which the associated activities ultimately contribute , the redesign of a product , so that its production no longer needs a certain activity , may not result immediately in a reduced cost . |
| 23 | A limitation of standard costing is that , since all the overheads must be absorbed by the products to which the associated activities ultimately contribute , the redesign of a product , so that its production no longer needs a certain activity , may not result immediately in a reduced cost . |
| 24 | The fire did not break out in a deserted building in the middle of nowhere in the wee small hours of the morning . |
| 25 | But , in fact , virtually no behavioural tendency which constitutes genuine action can just show up in a cultural context ‘ as itself ’ . |
| 26 | Mineral workings and industrial processes have created interesting habitats such as inland salt marshes , extensive deposits rich in lime and other substrates that do not occur naturally in a particular region . |
| 27 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 28 | Because their danger was now different the men no longer walked together in a protective knot . |
| 29 | I very much regret that both the Syrians and the Lebanese stayed away from the multilaterals and that , although present , the Palestinians did not join in in a positive way . |
| 30 | He finished in great style but was just nosed out in a three-way photo , and is improving sufficiently to shrug off an extra four pounds from the handicapper . |