Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 How horrible — and how lucky you were , Mr. Preston , to meet my aunt when she was old and did n't really know what she was doing . "
2 Yet she was n't afraid and did n't even bother to open her eyes to find out if she would have to get up and run with Gloria for the shelters .
3 Maturity comes late and the cows are often as much as four years old before they conceive , while the bulls can be sexually mature at 18–20 months old but do not usually mate until about four years old .
4 The state has to respond to various pressures which are contradictory and do not unequivocally maintain and support the capitalist process of accumulation .
5 We can make another baby , Herta and I. If I wept copiously both before and after , she let me do it , or try it , but I am impotent and do n't even go to the whores any more .
6 Her advice is for women on driver-only buses to sit near the driver , a request that is n't always possible and does n't necessarily increase your feeling of security .
7 Right , okay , what we 're saying here is that the mum and the dad are normal people , they do n't have any problems , but they have got each of them have got abnormal gene and they 're going to have a family , the first baby that they have gets two normal genes , one from each parent , you only get one gene from each parent , fuses so that makes two genes so the baby has two genes , right , the first baby gets two normal genes , right and that baby is normal , which is very clear right , so here we have written this baby is not P K U affected and is normal and does n't actually carry the gene any more , does that make sense to you ?
8 Transfer of training from a simulator to a real situation is never complete and does not necessarily increase with degree of fidelity .
9 He could so easily have hurt himself or irreparably damaged the glider but , in fact , he was very lucky and did surprisingly little damage .
10 However , the conclusions of Gilbert and Specht are indirect and do not necessarily show that client participation in implementation stages is ineffective .
11 The Horde have been , are and can be inspirational but do n't always hit the target here .
12 My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way
13 ‘ Generally ‘ to stand ’ means to allow the motor vehicle ( or trailer ) to remain stationary and does not necessarily mean unattended ( Hinde v Evans ( 1906 ) 70 JP 548 ) although this will normally be the case .
14 She was incredibly sexy and did n't even realise it !
15 Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education .
16 They are artificial and do not adequately measure the students ' ability to use the complex information tools available and thereby gain the information that would be of use for their studies .
17 Though there is some additional variation in utilisation rates which is explained by social factors , it is relatively small and does not necessarily mean that additional variation in morbidity would be explained .
18 While both the philosophical and sociological responses to Mannheim 's work was critical and did not exactly embrace the sociology of knowledge as an exciting new project , it has been recognized as a promising new area for development .
19 They put out the ‘ Flag Day ’ EP , which garnered good reviews , ‘ Sheep ’ , a single that did n't quite make the Top 50 , and then broke through with ‘ Happy Hour ’ , which got to Number Three .
20 I thought it sounded a bit slushy and did n't really relate to it .
21 In these two genera the tentacle pores on the arm are open and do not usually have tentacle scales .
22 He knows that I have often thought that the exceptional needs payment scheme was complex , slow and did not often reach those most in need .
23 Most deaf people are still educated within a system which has at its base a language that is , at best , not fully accessible because it is based on hearing ; at worst , it is a language which is completely alien and does not adequately describe deaf experience .
24 Reconstituted families will become increasingly common but do not yet have a clear identity in British social life .
25 In general the causes could be : — the teacher was inadequately aware of the point — he concentrated on some other equally important point — the documentation was either misleading or did not adequately stress the point — the program presentation did not adequately support it .
26 As there was no effective treatment , the asylums were more custodial than therapeutic and did not usually cater for investigation and research .
27 Their sons are noisy and mischievous and do n't always do what they are told , and in every respect are normal , healthy , confident little boys .
28 Some peaks of demand can be dealt with by using consultants , but they tend to be expensive and do not always fit well with ill-defined but important factors such as the favoured style of the organisation .
29 There were one or two that were that I think were a little bit careless and did n't quite get the construction correct for them .
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