Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne 's job involved shift work , six o'clock until two , two o'clock until ten , and ten o'clock until six in the morning so she was rarely free to go out with Sarah . |
| 2 | It would then be all right to go back to England and Glyn ? |
| 3 | Replacements for your plantation wo n't be so easy to come by in future . " |
| 4 | But it is not so easy to legislate out of existence the cultures which produce these practices . |
| 5 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 6 | There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically . |
| 7 | You 're less likely to end up with gaps and assumptions . ’ |
| 8 | Thus , the majority of this group had not reached the point of their heroin career where becoming known is most likely and so were less likely to show up in crime statistics , medical records , and so on , than longer-term users . |
| 9 | The machines also hold more cash , making them less likely to run out of money over weekends and at busy periods . |
| 10 | The sentences are less likely to run out of puff in mid-stream and trail off into inaudibility . |
| 11 | ‘ They take so long to get back to pupils , ’ was one comment . |
| 12 | The tucuxi is , however only half the length of the boto , and is thus less able to break out of gill-nets when captured . |
| 13 | But the Greeks , though they enjoy buying the products of other people 's factories , are stubbornly reluctant to go in for factories themselves . |
| 14 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 15 | A more adventurous statesman , or one less determined to hang on to power , might have acted more quickly or taken more radical steps to achieve the same goal . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's extremely nice to come back to Liverpool , ’ she says . |
| 17 | As it happens ’ — Morse consulted his watch ostentatiously — ‘ he is very shortly due to take off from Kennedy Airport to fly back to Heathrow , and he has already made a substantial confession about his part in the strange circumstances surrounding the Wolvercote Tongue and Dr Theodore Kemp . |
| 18 | On a more serious note , Rowell was a very impressive coach , demanding on the training field , decisively analytical off it — yet not afraid to speak out over indignities such as the Ubogu affair . |
| 19 | Constance , whose confidence was growing daily , was not prepared to give in to Nicky 's wishes merely because of his sex . |
| 20 | " The amount the young can do nowadays — now when I was carrying Dan I was not able to get up for days together , me ankles swoll so , and I 'ad dizzy spells , something terrible , but she still gets around on that bike , perky as Punch . |
| 21 | Diane Edwards made a long run for home to defeat Ann Williams in a modest 4min 19.46sec with Cahill just unable to get back on terms . |
| 22 | It was proved that night that it was not difficult to escape out of Berwick , however hard it might be to enter it . |
| 23 | ‘ To me , it is just nice to get out of Leeds for a few weeks . |
| 24 | But they will also be suitable for students who have just finished Standard Grades , but are not ready to go on to Highers . |
| 25 | Sean had no where to go because he was not going to go to a friend 's house as he was not ready to face up to people he knew . |
| 26 | He favours careful risk assessment , which should enable regulators to concentrate on those ( like Maxwell ) who look most likely to step out of line . |
| 27 | You stick a Frownie on the parts of the face you are most likely to screw up in pain — the forehead , the outer end of the cheekbones — so that when your face starts to contract , you will realise it is happening , and relax your features into a seraphic , line-free mask . |
| 28 | I hope I am still alive to go back to Palestine again . |
| 29 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
| 30 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |