Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In effect , since socialisation is present as part of all social relationships , whether the parties to the relationship are aware of it or not , it is clear that it is a much more subtle , complex and pervasive process than it might at first appear and that we can only properly understand it as an aspect of all human activity .
2 She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share .
3 Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him
4 You better not get it on the furniture as well , keep it away from the furniture , now put it on the paper or else do n't use it
5 He 'd much sooner keep it in an old pair of tights . ’
6 I 'd much sooner guard it from the inside , ’ he grinned .
7 And with her jealousy came anger that he could so easily hold her in a close embrace while he still had Doreen in his system .
8 There was something alarming in the way an eleven-year-old girl - or ‘ nearly twelve ’ as she kept saying — could so easily comport herself among a press of adults .
9 ‘ If there is one worry about it , it is that the national curriculum and the attainment targets will only partly tell you about a child .
10 — Clearly the words ‘ Now I am seeing this as apex ’ can not so far mean anything to a learner who has only just met the concepts of apex , base and so on — But I do not mean this as empirical proposition .
11 So why put him under the pressure , she sa cos I said , I want to know what the long-term effect of me taking him out of this is , because , effectively I 'm taking him out of something of the system , knowing , he 's going to miss that .
12 So why invite her into the castle ?
13 The turnover may have to be greatly reduced in this situation until the young fish are large enough to withstand the water flow , so why employ it in the first place ?
14 For example , individuals brought up in a truly Marxist society would presumably not regard themselves as the subjects of history , whereas those in bourgeois society believe that they are intentional agents .
15 ‘ I 'd rather not discuss it on the phone .
16 It follows that in our judgment C.N.L. can not successfully bring themselves within the ratio of Peach v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [ 1986 ] Q.B .
17 In other words , whilst appearing to criticize the antisemitism of Streicher and The Protocols , the author does not wholly distance himself from the traditions of antisemitism .
18 But the ancestral organs did not literally change themselves into the descendant organs , like swords being beaten into ploughshares .
19 Nevertheless , the party could not entirely dissociate itself from the events which led to the formation of the National government , even if the chief villains , as far as it was concerned , were now in political opposition .
20 The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes .
21 In respect of the foregoing it must be understood that the interpretation put upon the word ‘ selfishness ’ in this book is one which does not necessarily brand it as a vice .
22 That individuals prosecuted for sodomy did not necessarily identify themselves with the demonized sodomite of official discourse also lends credence to Foucault 's distinction between sodomy as a kind of behaviour , and homosexuality as a modern identity .
23 The rejection of the ruling mode of dealing with the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power ( through market constraints or the internal structure of the company ) does not necessarily lead one into an inconclusive political debate about the merits of the capitalist system .
24 In the case , however , of a mandatory life sentence for murder ( into which category all the present appeals fall ) the minister of state takes the judicial view into account but does not necessarily adopt it as the tariff .
25 It might be argued that , even if such a statement were true of certain of Friedman 's works , it would not necessarily reveal anything about the man himself and also that the appeal to cognition was irrelevant .
26 Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship
27 The records management staff could no longer only involve themselves in the review of paper records they should also safeguard electronic records from inappropriate destruction .
28 The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards .
29 Enter our simple competition and you could not only find yourself with the answer to all your bedroom storage needs , but also regain an extra , usable room .
30 When Ferrar received it he read it over and over and kissed and embraced it , saying that he could not sufficiently admire it as a rich jewel , and most worthy to be in the hands and hearts of all true Christians that feared God and loved the Church of England .
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