Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She was long-legged and rather awkward and did n't do things quickly even when she got started ! |
| 32 | Do n't pull strips straight up or you may irritate skin and break off hair . |
| 33 | You ca n't turn feelings off just because your mind tells you they 're rubbish ! ’ |
| 34 | Currently the most widely known ( and also most widely criticized ) theory on the subject is that of Noam Chomsky who has pointed out that , although children have to learn the meanings of individual words from their elders ( which would make language a phenomenon of culture ) , they seem to know how to string words together so as to distinguish sense from nonsense long before they have acquired any substantial vocabulary . |
| 35 | Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all . |
| 36 | Sarah knew she was slow , and she tried hard to grasp things more quickly and to keep her mind on the task or game in hand , but she did n't always succeed . |
| 37 | Pioneering entomologists undoubtedly saw Laboulbeniales quite frequently while examining insects , but mostly regarded these oddities as some sort of malformed exoskeletal growths . |
| 38 | Around half of those who replied ( 56% ) had never before visited the Library 's exhibitions , and only about a quarter ( 23% ) had previously visited exhibitions more frequently than once a year . |
| 39 | Tied cottages also depressed farm wages , making farm workers unable to afford council house rents-Thus , the rents could not be lowered without raising the rates , while farmers were not going voluntarily to raise wages just so that their workers could afford to live in council houses . |
| 40 | Kathleen evidently ran things around here and nothing could be done without her say-so . |
| 41 | Large-scale commercialised farming , that is agribusiness and domestic agricultural enterprises , have to compete with other big corporations for investment capital and markets and must therefore make profits as efficiently as possible . |