Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet state censorship has arguably come much nearer and become more sinister with the Spycatcher affair and the more recent Section 28 . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ This has all taken rather longer than we anticipated . |
| 3 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 4 | Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries . |
| 5 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 6 | The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased . |
| 7 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 8 | In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms . |
| 9 | This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected . |
| 10 | This has taken a number of forms and has not spread as widely as some of its supporters might have hoped . |
| 11 | But it is naïve to assume that the LDDC has always operated as effectively as some reports would suggest . |
| 12 | Up to this moment he has always behaved as spontaneously as an animal , surrendering to appetite and vomiting ; now for the first time he makes a considered choice . |
| 13 | These attain elevations in excess of 3000m and much of this uplift has probably occurred as recently as the Late Quaternary . |
| 14 | The silence — for the sound of birds and sea adds up to silence as beautifully as we ever know it in the noisy world of today — together with the sweetly moving air , and the scents of thyme and bell heather and sun-warmed bracken , all combined to distil something very potent . |
| 15 | The side has also welded together emotionally and some of the players who went to Argentina have a great future in the game . |
| 16 | The distribution of responsibilities between local , national , public and voluntary sectors has also become less rather than more clear , which reduces the possibilities of accountability . |
| 17 | Despite a massive PR job by Buckingham Palace , it looks like nothing has really changed as far as Charles and Di are concerned ! |
| 18 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 19 | ‘ THE shareholders must be hoping the bank has n't gone as far as to give him a company credit card ’ — Labour leader John Smith , on ex-Chancellor Norman Lamont 's new employer , Rothschilds Bank . |
| 20 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 21 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
| 22 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
| 23 | The Plym has never fished so well and enthusiasts report catches of up to eight fish per session with a high percentage of 2 lb plus specimens . |
| 24 | On the positive side , it must be said that the unit does the job it sets out to do quite admirably and that the fidelity of the original signal is kept well and truly intact . |
| 25 | Although Johnson does not go so far as to claim that the affectless society was responsible for the Moors Murders , she does feel able to argue that the general atmosphere in society at the time had ‘ infected ’ the social system , and that ‘ Brady possibly , Hindley almost certainly , have been victims of fallout ’ . |
| 26 | Fitzgerald herself does not go so far as to suggest that they should not be used at all . |
| 27 | Christine Brooke-Rose does not go so far as to disavow authorial creativity altogether , but she too sees technology as the possible key to a breakthrough in how we think about the human subject . |
| 28 | However he does not go so far as to paraphrase by " see that " , as does Palmer . |
| 29 | In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works . |
| 30 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |