Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 2 | Despite episcopal censures , the practice continued for a surprisingly long time ; measures were taken to stop Irish clergy so cohabiting as late as the sixth century . |
| 3 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 4 | These subjects too learned less readily than controls in spite of the fact that the postulated ‘ interfering ’ response should actually have proved facilitatory in this case . |
| 5 | The matters obviously moved fairly rapidly because the parties were then almost ready to exchange contracts . |
| 6 | Lectures often began as early as 5 or 6 a.m. in the summer ( 7 a.m. in the winter ) , and sometimes the first lecture went on for three hours , no provision being made for any food before 10 a.m . |
| 7 | This may or may not be desirable : administrators sometimes act more quickly than lawyers and judges ( they are certainly a lot less expensive ) , but they are always vulnerable to regulatory capture and they can make bad decisions if they are poorly funded and undermanned ( for some observations on this issue , see Areeda , 1992 . ) |
| 8 | Ah yes , the mystic east , flying carpets , romance on all sides , and on the long sandy beach around the translucent waters of the bay at Ortakent you can laze your days away doing little else than looking deep into each other 's eyes . |
| 9 | Carers generally operate alone rather than in a large network and , as noted earlier , they are not a single group . |
| 10 | Hall 's positive views about the timing of the judges ' appointments probably originated as early as 1835 , when the plans for the new Houses of Parliament were being considered . |
| 11 | Many more are seen in the autumn , when arrivals often start as early as late June and always in July . |
| 12 | British garages also work more slowly than their French counterparts . |
| 13 | Some farmers even go so far as to grow continuous cereal crops indefinitely — barley on the lighter land and winter wheat on the strong clays . |
| 14 | Contrary to those who claim that tribesmen always think concretely rather than abstractly , the Ndembu have an abstract general term for ‘ symbol ’ ( chinjikikilu ) derived from a verb used in hunting to mean literally ‘ to blaze a trail ’ ( ku-jikijila ) . |
| 15 | Indeed , one of the characters even goes so far as to advocate an aleatory literature which , abandoning all pretence of saying anything , would provide the reader with dice and a random list of words and leave him/her to make of it what he/she may . |
| 16 | Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ The conflict sank once more to the bloody but local struggles of two or three divisions repeatedly renewed as fast as they were consumed , and consumed as fast as they were renewed . |
| 17 | The English players never get any further than the second round of Wimbledon . |
| 18 | Mathematics for a multicultural society must recognise the skills children already have as well as those we want to enable them to develop . |
| 19 | It is unfortunately true that however good your routefinding , long rock descents usually take much longer than you expect . |
| 20 | Caught between the preaching of the Roman catholic clergy and appeals from protestants and liberal Roman catholics — including Dr FitzGerald — not to constitutionalize the issue , it would appear that many voters simply stayed away rather than vote against the proposal . |
| 21 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 22 | In his opinion , though it had never been openly expressed , she was little more than a flibbertigibbet whose thoughts rarely ranged further afield than the next gratification . |
| 23 | Acid House was all the rage ; multi-rhythmed electronic stuff popular on the disco circuit but only comprehensible when taken with the designer drugs now supplied as openly as condoms in some of the smarter venues . |
| 24 | Women consistently score less well than men on the US Scholastic Aptitude Test ( SAT ) . |
| 25 | Political novels rarely work well both as politics and as literature . |
| 26 | Nomes sometimes went as far as the airport . |