Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if social analysis is something which everyone does , those who engage in it professionally are still tempted by delusions of grandeur . |
| 2 | ‘ The Man with the Guinness ’ campaign was launched in the UK in 1987 and has since been successfully exported to Australia , Hong Kong , Singapore and Malaysia where different actors are used to reflect local culture and customs . |
| 3 | A fund-raising target of £3,000 initiated on 30 November to buy a specialised bed for the Douglas Macmillan Home was reached before the end of last year — and has since been significantly exceeded with money still coming in . |
| 4 | There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . ) |
| 5 | The threat has not only been partially thwarted by vehicle checkpoints but by close surveillance . |
| 6 | A frisson of concern ran through the staff when it was discovered that items have only been routinely fumigated against pathogens since the 1950s . |
| 7 | In Sweden , for example , the trade unions have long been well represented in government decision-making and have negotiated pay levels and labour practices much envied by their counterparts in other countries . |
| 8 | Yet the different types found on Jersey and Guernsey had long been well known in England , which had imported Jerseys ( under the Alderney name ) since at least 1789 . |
| 9 | In the result I have not been persuaded that any doubt has been cast upon principles which are soundly directed as being both desirable and reasonable and which furthermore have for long been firmly established by authority . |
| 10 | The bedrooms have all been individually redesigned with comfort in mind and offer the best in modern facilities with colour TV ( with satellite ) , telephone , radio and minibar combined with traditional elegance . |
| 11 | I am sure they had all been carefully checked by Heathcliff before they were posted . |
| 12 | I had this dreadful feeling that my journey to London and my meeting with this Frenchman had all been carefully managed by Cardinal Wolsey and his blackguard , Doctor Agrippa . |
| 13 | More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay . |
| 14 | It had obviously been recently decorated for Howarth 's arrival , and the pale grey-green carpet , with its matching square under the desk , was as yet unmarked , the curtains hung in pristine folds of dark green . |
| 15 | They are not Undead , and so are not kept at bay by a Zone of Sanctuary . |
| 16 | A solution/map would apparently be gratefully received by Mr Croll , so get yer sheets of A4 paper and crayons out . |
| 17 | A pupil may reach level 6 in Attainment Target 1 but only be partially achieving at level 5 in Attainment Targets 2 and 3 . |
| 18 | Whether or not any address is within the district of any particular county court can usually only be reliably ascertained by inquiry at the court office where a directory is held . |
| 19 | It was put to the two top men and to the Vice President in charge of Overseas ' Operations that the interests of France could only be adequately served by Frenchmen , and not by Americans or Englishmen . |
| 20 | Profit diagrams can only be intelligibly drawn for strategies involving investments with the same expiry dates . |
| 21 | While the differences between the crown of France and its vassals were expressed in a language which was essentially feudal ( a new political vocabulary more suited to developments had not yet evolved ) , what was really happening was something remarkably ‘ modern ’ , the laying of the foundations of a national state under one monarch whose territorial authority could only be effectively exercised through annexation or conquest . |
| 22 | Each sphere is typically characterized by a representative institution , cohesive structures of practices , organized and patterned , which can only be properly understood in terms of their transnational effects . |
| 23 | Attention would only be conditionally offered to Ollie if Stan was in the room , and if the family were enjoying a quiet cuddle with Stan , he would have to be rejected in favour of Ollie if he appeared . |
| 24 | Curiously , it 's an executable file and not a device driver , so it can only be initially loaded in AUTOEXEC.BAT , which could permit a virus to go into memory before Virus Guard is loaded . |
| 25 | This is surprising when one remembers the importance frequently given to local housing need which can only be satisfactorily defined in relation to an understanding of social groups and information on incomes . |
| 26 | These double-polished thin sections ( DPTs ) can only be satisfactorily produced by machine ; they are the best sections for research work and critical petrographic studies . |
| 27 | Some of the work of Gerald Gardner , and much of Aleister Crowley 's magic , can only be satisfactorily practised in privacy and seclusion . |
| 28 | The movies were something very new and they soon developed a unique and distinctive position within the culture but that position can only be fully understood by reference to that context of nineteenth-century popular culture from which they emerged . |
| 29 | Within such a context it is easier to see how a series of advances , retreats and confusing divisions can be explained as part of a general shift which is of wider significance than the accumulation of a mass of detailed incidents , each of which can only be fully explained in terms of its own unique genesis . |
| 30 | In his famous discussion of the legitimate province of state power , Mill argued that power could only be rightfully exercised in order to prevent one individual from harming another . |