Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 2 | In the following example the teacher has quite deliberately sought to initiate interest in the comparison of ages and heights , by arranging for older brothers and sisters to visit the group . |
| 3 | ‘ A new demand is spreading through the market like wildfire and Bolt Head has quite simply failed to spot it . |
| 4 | Revived , go back in the lunch hour to the apartment building , even if the landlord has twice more refused to come to the telephone . |
| 5 | A feminist perspective on , and analysis of , architecture and planning has only just begun to emerge over the last decade . |
| 6 | One beach has so far managed to stay comparatively healthy . |
| 7 | To these points I must agree that it appears that the NIH has most reprehensibly sought to exploit the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) crisis to its own ends . |
| 8 | Plans are far from fixed , but the replacement could be be Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC , since the Japanese firm has already reportedly pledged to buy $80m worth over the next three or four years . |
| 9 | The new techniques were used to ‘ improve ’ existing therapy , while fundamental research into the causes of diabetes has only recently begun to yield important results . |
| 10 | Patrician insolence has quite often appeared to express a perception of the activities of the levelling Labour governments which have come and gone since 1945 . |
| 11 | In practice , the minister has only once had to issue such a directive ( when the Conservatives after 1951 stopped any further action by the Iron and Steel Board ) as these reserve powers are quite sufficient to make the boards listen carefully to any suggestions made in a less formal manner by the minister . |
| 12 | Paco has only just begun to speak openly of reincarnation : ‘ The time has come when the Seventh Sea is going to open . ’ |
| 13 | CAP has so far failed to tackle the disadvantages or to help to secure the benefits of the few comparative advantages of the DRAs . |
| 14 | Buttimore has only recently returned to top rugby in England after two summers in Australia . |
| 15 | Buttimore has only recently returned to top rugby in England after two summers in Australia . |
| 16 | Microsoft 's attempts to take control of the US Windows-based home finance and small business accounts market has so far failed to unseat Intuit 's top selling package , Quicken 6 for DOS . |
| 17 | Before looking at how , albeit unwittingly , orthodox Christianity has too often failed to appreciate the dramatic nature of the Great Battle , I want to add a footnote on myth , the gospel , and modern scholarship . |