Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd much rather sit by the pool . ’ |
| 2 | Eh , , I mean there 's a idea the money that 's been spent on the railways instead of on motorways we 'd be a lot better off , and I think and Partners subscribed to that because I think that erm , had more money being spent on the railways that we would have been much better off , oh I 'd much rather go on a train journey than on a motor bridge journey . |
| 3 | ‘ In my life , Oh why do I give valuable time to people who I 'd much rather kick in the eye ? ’ |
| 4 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 5 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 6 | The official Tass news agency announced on Jan. 1 that Soviet troops would henceforth only serve in the Transcaucasus on a voluntary basis . |
| 7 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 8 | Hence , whether a child is placed with a foster family or in residential care may not so much depend on the child 's needs but on where he or she happens to live . |
| 9 | Because the external examiners are coming into the child 's environment , they might only just walk through the school , but you 'd hope that they would pick up something of the ambience ; plus the work can be presented how the child wants to present it . |
| 10 | Nor did Gillian , who talked just as if she 'd only just run to the signpost and back . |
| 11 | When the life of a child can so easily hang in the balance , is there not a case for recommending that all parents attend a practical course in first aid , rather than relying on the printed page ? |
| 12 | It can so easily look like a stunt or be represented as a desire wilfully to shape malleable material . |
| 13 | Besides , with this creed I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime , I can so sincerely forgive the first , while I abhor the last with this creed revenge never worries my heart , degradation never too deeply disgusts me , injustice never crushes me too low , I live in calm looking to the end . |
| 14 | Among those concerned with language teaching some assume that such a model must also be directly relevant to problems of pedagogy , that in general the principles and objectives which define the discipline of linguistics must necessarily also apply to the subject of language teaching in the school curriculum . |
| 15 | So y w feel free now to ask questions I mean , you must have something that worries you about about this partic I can only really talk about the exam . |
| 16 | Some have been accused — rightly or wrongly — of preferring not to sell all their available time rather than to reduce their price , and most areas now follow a practice which can only really work in a seller 's market — ‘ pre-emption ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously it would be good to look at more examples from different cultures , but it 's such a huge subject , in ten weeks you can only really deal with the tip of the iceberg . |
| 18 | In the government 's view it is wrong that planning decisions about land use should so often result in the realizing of unearned increments by the owners of the land to which they apply , and that desirable development should be frustrated by owners withholding their land in the hope of higher prices . |
| 19 | Because the employee could only therefore point to the licensing fee as a tangible form of benefit , he also argued that the employer 's use of the valve in the steel production process at its South Teesside plant generated other economic benefits . |
| 20 | Now I know that I 'm going and Alma 's going , but we 've yet to decide I would rather just go to the crematorium |
| 21 | No body , no individual may exercise authority which does not expressly emanate from the Nation . ’ |
| 22 | Although reduced feed consumption and diarrhoea affect liveweight gain they do not wholly account for the loss in production . |
| 23 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 24 | I would just rather march at the head of the unit as I have done on many other occasions . ’ |
| 25 | If the period of historic relevance is measured in hundreds of years , then even periodic recopying and migration to new generations of hardware will not effectively provide for the preservation of information long enough to meet historians ’ long-term needs . |
| 26 | Finding a sufficient number of tokens of a variable for each speaker did not apparently emerge as a problem in the early urban surveys which followed Labov 's 1966 model . |
| 27 | Already , too , one may see the start of a symbiotic relationship in which France would increasingly depend upon American resources to achieve purposes which , left to herself , would be beyond her , while American objectives , although they did not entirely coincide with the French and for all the power which they would ultimately deploy , had to include France as a frail but , for the moment , indispensable means by which they might be attained . |
| 28 | This does not entirely square with the view that politicians are potentially too ‘ knavish ’ to make decisions of any importance , but it was , I suspect , near the mark . |
| 29 | Those that carry the same names as overseas beers are produced under licence and do not necessarily adhere to the recipe or strength of the original . |
| 30 | A charter party did not necessarily attest to the ownership of the goods shipped because the charterer might not have been a shipper , but merely a lessor of space . |