Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAVING ducked the bullets once , Dennis Conner must do so again today if Stars & Stripes is not to be eliminated from the America 's Cup defenders ' trials in a sudden-death sail-off against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 2 | ‘ We should get there as soon as possible , for everybody 's sake , ’ said the Thing . |
| 3 | Scientists at the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) reported that a link might exist as long ago as 1968 . |
| 4 | Often we may equate them with more formal partnerships which fall by the wayside after only a short existence ; except that in their breakdown the feelings of guilt , humiliation and bitterness may occur even more strongly than when an " honest " attempt is felt to have been made . |
| 5 | He writes that , having ‘ grabbed ’ Bosnia at the Congress of Berlin in 1878 , the Habsburgs ‘ soon demonstrated that they could rule just as viciously as the Turks . ’ |
| 6 | Intermediates could see even less well than their imperfect ancestors , and it is no consolation that they are building better eyesight for their remote descendants ! |
| 7 | Cruising along the crest , we could see almost as far as the coast to one side and over Bilsdale mast to the Cleveland Hills on the other . |
| 8 | We could slide together as easily as a train halts by the platform . |
| 9 | He knew that there was a big market in Japan and that you could tour there fairly economically because it was such a small cluster of islands , and he just decided he would . |
| 10 | If the theory is correct , trials involving HIV infected patients could go ahead as early as next year . |
| 11 | There is concern that cracks in some 747 fuse pins could spread much more quickly than was previously realised . |
| 12 | And everybody could get home very quickly because of the railway stations that were there . |
| 13 | We could travel together as far as Doha and I would go on alone to Abu Dhabi . |
| 14 | I would gladly have come to you , but I thought we could talk more freely here than in an hotel . |
| 15 | Dealers would bluff even more audaciously than clients . |
| 16 | We are currently considering all viewpoints , and I can assure my hon. Friend that when we are in a position to announce our final decision , we shall do so as speedily as possible . |
| 17 | But there was so much to do , and it would take twice as long if Nathan had to do it all himself . |
| 18 | He says his customers would go further afield only if discounting was ferocious , and in such an event believes that prices would soon start going back up as one or more of the big chains went out of business . |
| 19 | Tomorrow she would go home as early as possible and she would never see him again . |
| 20 | Through the layers of their clothing she could feel Penry 's heart beating steadily against her back , and dreaded the moment of parting which would come all too soon when they reached journey 's end in Chastlecombe . |
| 21 | Caroline modelled not for Valentino but for Fabbiano and designers like him , whose careers would last only fractionally longer than the lives of fruit flies , whose successes were dependent not on talent but on flash and dash . |
| 22 | Let's get as far away as we can . ’ |
| 23 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 24 | On the next occasion they may get only as far as point C and so on until they are virtually unable to leave home . |
| 25 | In practice , this situation will arise only very rarely if a regime of symptom control and no more has been adopted . |
| 26 | Gartner believes that by 1995 ‘ Sun will compromise much more substantially than it previously has , de-emphasizing Sun-specific application programming interfaces and services such as Open Network Computing and Open Look in favour of X/Open , OSF and USL-endorsed interfaces . ’ |
| 27 | Your salary will grow just as quickly as your skills and responsibilities — and that could be very fast indeed . |
| 28 | Each piece , given space , will grow much more quickly than leaving the budded offset attached to the base of the main stalk . |
| 29 | The weakening effect of the scratch has very little to do with the amount of material removed , a shallow scratch will do nearly as well as a deep one , it is the sharpness of the re-entrant that increases the stress . |
| 30 | I know of my hon. Friend 's interest in the matter , following the report of the Select Committee on Employment , and I can give an assurance that if the consultants ' report to which I referred has not yet reached the Department of Employment , it will do so as soon as possible . |