Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My right hon. and learned Friend has said as clearly as possible that he regards the second London terminal at King 's Cross as an intrinsic part of the scheme . |
| 2 | Conran has gone so far as ending catwalk exhibitions totally in favour of presentation by video . |
| 3 | There were two more floors above this in the keep , but the chances of Balliol having gone upstairs rather than down were remote . |
| 4 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 5 | When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before . |
| 6 | The study of the distribution of exotic imported goods within England has extended as far as noting that there are two basic patterns to their distribution , apparently depending on their sources , and that particular areas or individual cemeteries have disproportionately high quantities of some of these goods . |
| 7 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 8 | Ardeshir Zahedi had done far better than that . |
| 9 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 10 | ‘ OUP has spent considerably more than £100,000 adapting its computer system to cope with the new requirements . |
| 11 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
| 12 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 13 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 14 | It was significant that Mr Lamont had looked further ahead than is usually the case on Budget day , said Professor Sherer . |
| 15 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 16 | Says his admiring boss Peter Reid : ‘ Mike has done really well since he came in . |
| 17 | The US had maintained as recently as Oct. 15 its opposition to IMF assistance to Vietnam , blocking a French plan at a regional IMF meeting in Bangkok to help Vietnam pay off arrears of US$140 million to the Fund . |
| 18 | Senna said Mansell had braked much earlier than anticipated . |
| 19 | Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life . |
| 20 | Sales of OS/2 have gone more slowly than some at Microsoft had hoped . |
| 21 | Taking into account that over the past year changes in Europe have proceeded vastly faster than almost everyone predicted , it is imperative that we start thinking now about what a new ‘ European security order ’ , without vast Soviet and American armies on German soil , might look like . |
| 22 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 23 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 24 | The United States of America has progressed much further than the United Kingdom has in determining this question but the basic legal principles are the same : copyright protects expression but not idea . |
| 25 | Paul had done less well than had been expected of him at Balliol , not through his own fault . |
| 26 | Valerie Cass had left rather petulantly as soon as she had finished her gin , and Malcolm Harris , breathing imprecations against Michael Banks , had gone soon after ( without of course , buying a round ) . |
| 27 | Students in London have suffered particularly badly because of the Government 's decision to make students ineligible for housing benefit . |
| 28 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 29 | Under rule changes which Mr Smith wants implemented as early as the annual conference in October this year , future contests for the leadership and deputy will be decided in a 50:50 division between constituency members and MPs , including members of the European Parliament . |
| 30 | In another premature general election in June 1989 Fianna Fáil performed less well than in 1982 and Haughey was obliged to form a coalition government with the Progressive Democrats [ see pp. 36739 ; 36820-21 ] . |