Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger ( Bryan Ferry could n't come because he had a cold ) were at my d'Offay Gallery opening last year raised it into a social event , so much so that Robin Vousden said , ‘ We have n't had an opening like this since Andy Warhol ’ . |
| 2 | Strachan on song is a familiar sound this season , so much so that Howard Wilkinson confesses he finds it difficult to say something new about his club captain . |
| 3 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 4 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 5 | I think that 's the trouble ; I 'm very recognisable ; much more so than Paul McCartney walking through Soho in a beard . ’ |
| 6 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 7 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 8 | I followed her down as far as Wilshire Boulevard . |
| 9 | At some point in the second half of next year , and perhaps even earlier if President Mitterrand decides to bring forward the abolition of French controls , the Government is going to be faced with an inescapable decision . |
| 10 | Contributions are coming in very well and Janet Rogers , our Treasurer , thanked everyone who had participated . |
| 11 | In Edinburgh I discovered all too soon that Sylvia Grey was not there either . |
| 12 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 13 | The work started in northern Scotland and has progressed southwards as far as North Wales . |
| 14 | The secret which Carol has faithfully kept for more than four months was finally out yesterday as Commander Tim Laurence and his bride-to-be allowed her to claim the credit she deserves . |
| 15 | Dermot Reeve maybe , but not Ian Terrence Botham , for his days are over as surely as Dr W. G. Grace 's . |
| 16 | And the heat of the day , combined with a natural anxiety , made me sweat , though not as profusely as Dr Reid , who was continually wiping his pink , bald head . |
| 17 | Cautiously , Athelstan joined the fray — not as expertly as Sir John , but the long ash pole came into play , creating as much confusion as it did hum . |
| 18 | Just as well that Neil Mallender is having an impressive season and that the towering Dutchman ( yes , another ! ) |
| 19 | Which was just as well because Derek Jefferson , the managing director of the firm , was there as the stand-in caddie , and was similarly dressed in Supersight clothing . |
| 20 | In my estimation , the best pencils are totally soluble , not relatively so as Mr Robb states . |
| 21 | In my estimation , the best pencils are totally soluble , not relatively so as Mr Robb states . |
| 22 | We should not forget that it was not that long since Samuel Butler had published ( in 1878 ) his famous poem ‘ A Psalm Of Montreal ’ which was evoked by finding that Canadian ‘ philistinism ’ , had removed a Greek statue of Discobolus to a side-room in the Natural History Museum , presently used by a taxidermist , because of its ‘ vulgarity ’ . |
| 23 | Some were critical of this orthodoxy and — behind the scenes — nobody more effectively so than Toby Weaver , the most powerful civil servant of his generation in the formulation of educational policies . |
| 24 | The lights are always there so that Mrs Thatcher , at whatever hour , may choose to be seen on TV sweeping through saying nothing , thus demonstrating that she is Prime Minister and going busily about the nation 's business . |
| 25 | But these changes aside , the rest of Blenheim is still very much as Capabilty Brown designed it — and there can be little doubting that he 'd be delighted to see his work still very much alive and admired today . |
| 26 | She 'd never liked them much ; in fact she had only kept them up so long because Mary Connon long ago , almost on her first visit to the house , had been openly patronizing about them . |
| 27 | Jim Baxter 's name would crop up more often than Ronnie Biggs . |
| 28 | They occupied sites along the course of the Water of Leith past Canonmills and up as far as Dean Village . |
| 29 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the need for a review in London goes back much further than Lord Ennals ? |
| 30 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |