Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ) |
| 3 | The threat has not only been partially thwarted by vehicle checkpoints but by close surveillance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They are not Undead , and so are not kept at bay by a Zone of Sanctuary . |
| 8 | A pupil may reach level 6 in Attainment Target 1 but only be partially achieving at level 5 in Attainment Targets 2 and 3 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some of the work of Gerald Gardner , and much of Aleister Crowley 's magic , can only be satisfactorily practised in privacy and seclusion . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Austen Chamberlain and Walter Long were both treated with respect by Law , tribute to their withdrawal in his favour in 1911 , but they reacted very differently . |
| 17 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 18 | Patients with hyperplastic polyps only were not accepted for enrollment . |
| 19 | More fertilizer might mean more grain ( and more carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide to add to the greenhouse effect ) , but there obviously comes a point where more fertilizer does not mean a bigger yield or perhaps is not justified on cost grounds , particularly when grain prices are low , as they were for part of the 1980s . |
| 20 | But to be made to feel as if one 's made of wood by a man who obviously is n't made of wood is too much for any girl 's stomach . |
| 21 | I would try and get people to work as a team together and then when it obviously is n't going to work properly , only then would I make the decision . |
| 22 | It 's rather heavy and bulky to carry at 10lb 14oz , so is best suited for lowland campsites and ‘ car boot ’ camping . |
| 23 | Any supporter doing so is now banned for life . |
| 24 | Everything was out in the open now and the dream she had had for so long was about to turn into reality . |
| 25 | A new point that I would make , however , in many of those arguments which relate to the impossible , or alleged availability of additional windfall sites , and land on the inner greenbelt boundary , but I think the analysis which is er carried out is a simplistic one , because it solely relates to residential land requirements , there is no erm attempt to erm bring into the equation whether there is land available for the related employment necessary for that additional residential development , whether there is land available for schools , shops , and Mr Davis 's recreation uses , and so on , and all those will very considerably increase the amount of land required to be released to support residential development , wherever it is located , and that is something which I believe has not been properly taken into account . |
| 26 | Exercise Increasing expenditure of surplus calories through exercise and increasing metabolic rate has not been widely used in treatment strategies , although Cohen et al . |
| 27 | Kenya 's development has probably not been overly constrained by debt per se , though the strings tied to the loans have limited policy choice . |
| 28 | It would be surprising if less prosperous sections of the community had not been equally attacked by disease at this time , and casualties of that extent would certainly have set back any recovery of the population . |
| 29 | This method of judgement is relevant whenever tasks and their solutions have not been completely specified in advance . |
| 30 | The science of art , claims Kemp , has not been adequately appreciated by art historians and to begin to rectify the situation he strives to demonstrate that ‘ there were special kinds of affinity between the central intellectual and observational concerns in the visual arts and the sciences , in European history between the Renaissance and the nineteenth century ( p. 1 ) . |