Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet other Western states , still grappling with the aftermath of 1973 , pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster so as to help their own recovery . |
| 2 | War may not be an overall preference ( Lenin was particularly fond of Clausewitz 's remark that the aggressor would prefer to walk in and occupy a foreign territory peacefully rather than fight for it ) ; but if it is the most effective way of achieving an aim , it is necessary to pursue it . |
| 3 | And accordingly , listeners process acoustic information less carefully when dealing with predictable words . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're very much old school as far as playing 's concerned , ’ reckons Robert . |
| 5 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 6 | De Tocqueville made a similar point even earlier when commenting on the individualizing consequences of American democracy : " Aristocracy had made a chain of all the members of the community , from the peasant to the king : democracy breaks that chain and severs every link of it . " |
| 7 | For Christie 's , such sales help raise our European profile as well as assert London as an international centre of the art market . |
| 8 | Irradiation seems to be able to mediate these effects in humans since irradiation for testicular seminoma or teratoma , which includes the spine , leads to duodenal ulcer more frequently than does treatment for the same condition without irradiation . |
| 9 | It is our belief — shared by a number of retailers — that Christmas will prove to be yet another false dawn as far as reawakening consumer confidence is concerned . |
| 10 | So also Daniel , walking with Stephanie on Filey beach , had suddenly , out of some metaphorical experience as bodily as breathing , known why love was called " sweet " and , as his blood banged , why a beloved was a " sweet heart " . |
| 11 | In other respects as well , choice theories confine the scope of legal liability more narrowly than do the ‘ harm to interests ’ theories . |
| 12 | In so doing he combined the religious culture of Lérins and the rhetorical culture of Late Antiquity more successfully than had Sidonius . |
| 13 | To deny mothers the opportunity to pursue a useful career as well as bring up their children is wasting their talents . |
| 14 | Harold is a very good prime minister as far as taking the Cabinet goes . |
| 15 | They have to learn a lot of different skills , and also in business nothing happens unless you 're good at organizing teams , so businessmen often get good at working with people , which is , I think , a hugely important experience so far as helping people to grow up is concerned . |
| 16 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 17 | But we can treat the zero exponent on the ladder of powers as the log , since its effect on the shape of data batches fits exactly at this point ; it corrects upward straggle more powerfully than taking roots , but it is not as strong a transformation as the reciprocal root , or reciprocals . |
| 18 | The Letterewe estate is run as a wilderness area and not as a commercial estate — this is an immense boon as far as preserving the beauty of the area is concerned . |
| 19 | Now er they are then in a situation perhaps often those people who are er less financially well off and sometimes in jobs which this particular might very well lose tomorrow erm their in a difficult situation as far as paying back mortgages is concerned . |
| 20 | In such cases the court should not apply the strict construction so far as to make the whole clause void or invalid or unenforceable . |
| 21 | ‘ And he set us on a new track as far as putting human rights violations in a political context was concerned . |