Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 2 | She is past the menopause and she and Abraham have long since given up sexual intercourse . |
| 3 | As yet you probably do not know what Charge Codes you want to use , so just set up one storage directory under Charge Code 0001 , for use by the LIFESPAN Manager , at present . |
| 4 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 5 | But then he remembered he had so far made little public display of his temporary teacher from Portlington . |
| 6 | Her call sharply stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister John Major who has so far ruled out military intervention in the savage civil war . |
| 7 | Police have so far ruled out any connection between the rapes . |
| 8 | The role of general practitioners in the assessment of deliberate self-poisoning has so far received very little attention . |
| 9 | I have so far received only one explanation of what this advisory unit I am setting up is supposed to be doing . |
| 10 | In Eastern Europe the opposition movements which began to grow rapidly in the 1980s were finally successful in bringing about the collapse of the communist regimes , but they have not yet been able to create an acceptable and stable new order ; nationalist movements have proliferated , and a new labour movement has emerged which contests the policy of restoring free-market capitalism that has so far produced only economic disaster . |
| 11 | Birdsfoot trefoil accompanies blackberries and there are no less than three colours of clover , the usual white , the less common pink and a much less frequently seen deep magenta variety adding a splash of summer colour . |
| 12 | The boy led them up one of the dark streets to a place where the houses were tall and thin and so closely packed together that door followed immediately upon door . |
| 13 | The new discoveries not only provided more detailed evidence for the development of life on earth , but also highlighted the exotic nature of the earth 's earlier inhabitants . |
| 14 | Turning to the volume 's introductory pages , I read some encouraging words that at once led me to hope that I might yet track down a few potential search areas that had not already received too much attention . |
| 15 | Having previously discussed it with John , I declined to join them on their expedition to the temples at P. as I feel it is important to them both to have time alone with each other , especially as is at the moment a bit jealous of the twin at school here ( though of course he , chose to opt out of Gordonstoun ) and has anyway not spent as much time with John in recent years as no 2 ! has . |
| 16 | It is not always realised how little spinning is carried out during the test flying of a new type of glider . |
| 17 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
| 18 | Some of the clans , such as the Campbells of Argyll , were staunchly Whig , others were divided amongst themselves , and many were not really committed strongly one way or the other . |
| 19 | Is my hon. Friend aware that there was a serious fall-off in the number of people presenting themselves for eye tests for a considerable period after the charges were introduced and that the current figures show that we have not yet made up that gap ? |
| 20 | By the time they reached the coffee stage it had become clear that he was doing his best to pump her , though she hoped he had not yet realised how little result he was getting , or how assiduously she was trying , in her turn , to find out more about him . |
| 21 | The man in his late twenties threatened staff at the Alliance and Leicester branch on High Street in Oxford.It 's not yet known how much money was taken . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the government has not yet backed up this realization with sufficient hard cash , and the benefits available for supporting relatives are paltry compared to the costs incurred by the state if someone is in long-term institutional care . |
| 23 | I have only ever once paid out good cash for rocks , in an emergency when I lived in Reading ( good for free lime-rich gravel , but no local rocks at all ) and it hurt dreadfully . |
| 24 | But no one else has ever even wound up that chain . |
| 25 | I live in Southend and I have genuinely never seen so much hardship and depression before . |
| 26 | Examination of the aircraft position reports reveal that the aircraft most probably encountered considerably stronger head winds than forecast , particularly on the leg from Prince Christian to Goose Bay . |
| 27 | Modern science , which is commonly held to have been given its philosophical base by Descartes , has nearly always presupposed precisely this kind of dualistic contrast between objective matter and introspective mind . |
| 28 | It was certainly a day for surprises , because Froggy had probably never seen so much cash in one lump , let alone earned it . |
| 29 | And er he was a first class tradesman you know , really really made quite good stuff . |
| 30 | I think the liberal democrats are gon na find themselves rather strangely isolated here this evening , proposing the highest budget . |