Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 2 | Yet state censorship has arguably come much nearer and become more sinister with the Spycatcher affair and the more recent Section 28 . |
| 3 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 4 | If you freeze your Brazils ( 24 hours is ample ) they not only crack more easily but separate delightfully . |
| 5 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 6 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 7 | Waste containers should be large enough to take broken glass and be economical , but small enough to lock safely away and change frequently . |
| 8 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 9 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 11 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 12 | Let's not chance that decision , let's all move forward together and cooperate and make it work . |
| 13 | These could be hung from a decorative pole , perhaps set well above and extending beyond the sides of the door , to enable the curtains to be drawn well back . |
| 14 | ‘ Well you 'd better go home then and get your tomato ketchup . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ . |
| 16 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 17 | The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work . |
| 18 | Just sit very still and wait a little while . |
| 19 | Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership . |
| 20 | He did not answer straight away but stared , quite unruffled , down into her angry green eyes . |
| 21 | The edges of adjacent planks were not fastened together mechanically but stood open so as to form a V-shaped groove . |
| 22 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 23 | As she searched for them in her pocket , Oliver could not wait any longer and ran into her arms . |
| 24 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 25 | This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected . |
| 26 | It helps people to appreciate mystery by not defining too easily and sewing it all up . |
| 27 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 28 | Roger did not do as well as hoped in his ‘ A ’ levels , but will probably go to Birmingham to do a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 29 | The fact that the long-stay population was not declining as rapidly as had been thought meant an expensive ‘ double running ’ situation . |
| 30 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |