Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The texture of a school may be made up of old-fashioned and perhaps idealized certainties as far as parents are concerned . |
| 2 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 3 | Folk said only trust foreigners as far as th'could see 'em — no further . |
| 4 | This last choice is desirable but it only delays things so far as getting home is concerned , since the forest road stops on the frontier some three miles away , and there you can but turn round . |
| 5 | Some processes do not reproduce pictures very well and the subject needs to be in bold relief without too much fussiness , whereas other processes are able to reproduce every detail . |
| 6 | I do not count calories any more and I eat three meals a day . |
| 7 | As we understand it , the Chancellor does not tax spirits more heavily because of their intrinsic properties nor because of the categories of persons who consume spirits , but because he considers that spirits face market circumstances which allow them to bear heavier taxes . |
| 8 | People were nevertheless quick to identify an interested argument and they did not feel disagreements less keenly because they understated them . |
| 9 | The best solution to dealing with problems at home , however , is just to talk things out calmly and honestly and try to reach a compromise . |
| 10 | In everyday speech , we do not pronounce words as clearly as we do when we are asked to say them in isolation . |
| 11 | Take care not to draught-proof rooms too efficiently if they contain fuel-burning appliances , since lack of an adequate air supply could lead to inefficient combustion and a build-up of dangerous fumes . |
| 12 | He needs time skills as well , instead of just doing things as soon as possible because you get to the things that become more pressing take over , |
| 13 | So , for example if somebody does reject a young man in a way that erm is n't appropriate in his eyes , he might then go around and start calling her all sorts of names and generally making other men think of her in bad way , and of course no eighteen year old woman wants young men to think badly of her , and so she puts pressure on herself not to reject advances too openly or too obviously or something like that , and the whole cycle starts again , and so and I think this is the sort of thing the college just can not have anything to do with , because that really is going too far , that 's interfering with the the one thing we could do , perhaps , is talk to the young women and make it clear that they do have the right to reject advances and that what they 've got to be concerned about whilst they 're at university is they 're academic career and making sure that that is n't affected by harassment . |
| 14 | I do n't normally pick things out just because of odd wordings , and start checking it out . |
| 15 | Ironically , some of the aids to vision which can be helpful in assisting the pupil to see more clearly , and thus perform tasks more adroitly and effectively , may be rejected by the pupil because of a dislike of looking different . |
| 16 | Mr Blunkett also says the conservatives replacement for the poll tax , the council tax would still make families worse off than labours scheme . |
| 17 | ‘ You know we always used candles down here when we were using the workbench , Joe . |
| 18 | Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ? |
| 19 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 20 | These specially created ideologies more often than not give the believer a clear place in the scheme of things , by providing a definite identity . |
| 21 | Neeme Järvi probably turns recordings out faster than any other artist in recorded history . |
| 22 | Er both got feet in just as goals were about to be shot and scored . |
| 23 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 24 | These will only be resolved in the course of an internal struggle , which will eventually produce governments neither more nor less enlightened than , for instance , those which have ruled over western Europe for the last five hundred years . |
| 25 | Office blocks , shopping centres , universities , new flats , renovated flats , office blocks , office blocks , they do n't really build churches much anymore cos they do n't need them , erm what else do they build ? |
| 26 | Viability , similarly , will no longer serve as a moral cutoff point : sophisticated life-support systems can now sustain fetuses as early as 20 weeks and even that limit is being pushed further and further back towards conception . |
| 27 | I kept on taking shots anyway so as not to lose face . ’ |
| 28 | Please send entries as soon as possible . |
| 29 | ‘ But surely we ca n't need reinforcements as desperately as all that , ’ Woodruffe said . |
| 30 | You do n't enjoy things so much when you get older . ’ |