Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [noun prp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |
| 2 | SO LONG as Saddam Hussein is still around , George Bush repeated this week , Iraq can expect no mercy on trade sanctions . |
| 3 | This is the clearest evidence so far that Mr Gorbachev is willing to change his government 's plans in order to share authority with the federation council — the first step towards wider talks . |
| 4 | All these things , if I may say so , are entirely irrelevant so far as Dr Hill is concerned . ’ |
| 5 | The meeting , however , failed to produce a satisfactory outcome ( at least so far as Harold Wilson was concerned ) , and I wrote a letter to the BBC demanding an apology in some ensuing programme . |
| 6 | The answer given to the first certified question was in line with those pronouncements , so even though Viscount Dilhorne was of opinion that the evidence fell short of establishing that Mr. Occhi had consented to the taking of the £6 it was a matter of decision that it made no difference whether or not he had so consented . |
| 7 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 8 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 9 | Long ago when Dennis Potter was a television critic too , he was reviewing Miss World . |
| 10 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 11 | When Will had disappeared from sight , Hari set to work on the slippers once more , they must be just so because Emily Grenfell was a good customer if a very exacting one . |
| 12 | It 's not just that Fleet Street is n't where it was . |
| 13 | In the September 1981 party conference it was revealed that Healey had indeed won , by the narrowest of margins , with 50.3 per cent of the popular vote ; the star of Tony Benn began to dim somewhat thereafter , not least because Michael Foot was able subtly to mount a movement of the old ( or ‘ soft ’ ) constitutionally-minded left against the ‘ hard left ’ of the neo-Marxist , unilateralist fringe . |
| 14 | He dialled the Athene office again , and was told once more that Alexandra Maitland was not available . |
| 15 | Juliet had noticed how David had looked up sharply while Miss Rose was talking . |
| 16 | I fear that does not even begin to address our concern the assurances which were given on the last occasion about the Home Secretary 's attitude by the Noble Earl Lord which will no doubt be repeated later this afternoon , will of course hold good only for as long as Mr Howard is Home Secretary . |
| 17 | As far as Fri Fri is concerned , running costs are equal to half a penny for every pound of fried product , ’ he says . |
| 18 | That put the tin lid on it as far as Patrick Kelly was concerned . |
| 19 | As far as Professor Greaves is aware , Graham 's case is quite unique . |
| 20 | As far as Lloyd Webber is concerned , there is only one contender — his ex-wife Sarah Brightman — to play the part of Rose . |
| 21 | ‘ As far as Marshal Tolonen is concerned , these things do not exist . |
| 22 | As far as East Germany is concerned , no doubt Western Germany will take care of that now , er who could or would be able to do it for Poland Czechoslovakia , Rumania and the Soviet Union , is very much more difficult to see , and of course , if the West were to rebuild all their , all their factories , er and they were all modern , and with their cheap labour force , they would then com , almost completely er destroy our industry I guess in competition so that we would have a , that would be another problem I guess . |
| 23 | Yeo Davis , evidently , c'est moi as far as Peter Yeo was concerned . |
| 24 | Even you must admit that it 's become an exciting and extremely important job over the last few years , certainly as far as Carlisle Flint is concerned ! ’ |
| 25 | As far as West Germany is concerned the post-1945 reorganisation of the union movement into just 16 industrial unions made trade union structure in that country the least complex in Europe . |
| 26 | Certainly as far as South Yorkshire is concerned , again we would have to say that the linkage social soc socioeconomic linkage between Greater York a and South Yorkshire er is very limited . |
| 27 | ‘ the general impression given by Mr. Morgan 's evidence is that the testator was alert , knew what he was doing , and there was no question of any confusion as far as Mr. Morgan was concerned . |
| 28 | Of the greatest player of her day , Jane Austen wrote only that ‘ We were quite satisfied with Mr. Kean , ’ — which may not look so good splashed across the marquee but which is all many of the experts demand : as far as Miss Austen is concerned , he did n't get in the way of the drama . |
| 29 | She had well and truly burned her boats as far as Luke Calder was concerned , so pity help her if the rumours about his investing in the radio station were right . |
| 30 | As far as Howard Wilkinson is concerned , Leslie Silver was quoted in the article as saying ‘ We would fight like hell to keep him ’ . |