Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much better than booming out in an intimidating voice , " We ca n't hear you ! " |
| 2 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 3 | I was 33 by then and played till the end of the season , which was at least better than going out on an injury . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You know , Frank , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm going to take a great delight in telling her , much more so than facing up to the big boy himself , because she it is who has paved the way for all this . ’ |
| 5 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 6 | Firstly , it was accepted by all Scots that the coronation of their king was valid only if carried out upon the Stone of Destiny , and in spite of the Christian ceremony accompanying it the right to place the crown on the new monarch 's head belonged irrevocably to the Earl of Fife , premier layman of the realm . |
| 7 | Martigues will soon be all but swallowed up in the new harbour constructions planned to stretch west from Marseille . |
| 8 | Barely waiting for a reply , Candy all but ran off down the garden path , leaving Rory feeling more alone and more vulnerable than she ever had in her life . |
| 9 | Devastated by the sudden realisation , she all but collapsed on to a nearby chair , her legs no longer capable of holding her up . |
| 10 | In the same year , the Hoppers ' Bel Air mansion was all but burnt down in a fire and virtually the whole of Dennis 's collection of poems and paintings were destroyed . |
| 11 | This was the principal reason for the remarkable development whereby detinue was all but wiped out by the encroachment of trover . |
| 12 | Although it is vital not to get too high , there is no advantage trying to fly very close to the ground , except perhaps when taking off from a very short field . |
| 13 | I became numb again to discomfort to a useful degree and plodded on methodically taking continual bearings , breathing carefully , aiming performance just below capability so as to last out to the end . |
| 14 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 15 | In contrast , in Crowhurst v. Amersham Burial Board , the defendants planted on their land a yew tree which grew so as to project over onto the land of the plaintiff on which cattle were pastured . |
| 16 | With the help of an infrared converter , the measuring beam ( 2μm square cross-section ) was aligned so as to pass axially through a given cell while the reference beam passed either outside the retinal fragment or in a space between photoreceptors . |
| 17 | These incorporated over four thousand pieces of garnet individually cut so as to fit precisely into the cloisons for which they were designed . |
| 18 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 19 | This micro-colony , set at 16,700ft , was supplied by air-drop , constructed entirely from discarded jerry-cans and covered with white parachute cotton so as to stand out like a sore thumb ! |
| 20 | I even considered swooning so as to get out of the room when suddenly a secret door just behind the throne was thrown open and the most incredible sight emerged : a man , black as night , well over two yards high . |
| 21 | Furthermore , although I recognise that the powers of the Director are circumscribed by section 1(3) and the opening words of section 2(1) , so as to relate only to the investigation of suspected offences , it remains true that the powers which I have summarised are concerned with ‘ the affairs ’ of the suspect , and these must to my mind extend beyond the matters which have caused the charge to be laid . |
| 22 | This can also be seen with evening primrose oil ; though not an essential oil , it appears to work better when applied externally for the treatment of hyperactivity in children . |
| 23 | Mortgages hit family incomes more directly and forcibly than paying more for the Volkswagen or Sony video recorder which would be among the potentially inflationary effects of devaluation . |
| 24 | Rather than delve more into the riches of Dinah 's more earthy blues recordings , it concentrates on her versions of all too familiar standards , the staple diet of supper club crooners the world over ; |
| 25 | Rather than face up to the horrendous alienation implied by such strong electoral support for Sinn Fein , the Government has closed its eyes and now compels the population to do the same . |
| 26 | Whilst other people recognise that the alcohol-induced sense of unconditioned acceptance is a false sensation , the sufferers from addictive disease may cling to it even to death rather than face up to the reality of the need to accept any conditions in life . |
| 27 | In such a universe , in which the expansion was accelerated by a cosmological constant rather than slowed down by the gravitational attraction of matter , there would be enough time for light to travel from one region to another in the early universe . |
| 28 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 29 | There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy . |
| 30 | There 's also a flavour of The Jim Hendrix Experience about the way the Colourcode rock in classic power trio fashion , although drummer Winston A Watson keeps things simple rather than splashing around in a jazz frenzy . |