Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 2 | She is past the menopause and she and Abraham have long since given up sexual intercourse . |
| 3 | I 'd much rather stay here another week , but I do n't suppose she 'd hear of it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ guidelines and codes of practice ( perhaps eventually having legally enforceable weight ) aimed at ensuring an objectively high standard of computer reliability and security ’ ( Castell 1991 : 98 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ What is the matter , you Christian men , that you so greatly esteeme so little portion of golde more than your own quietnesse … |
| 6 | As yet you probably do not know what Charge Codes you want to use , so just set up one storage directory under Charge Code 0001 , for use by the LIFESPAN Manager , at present . |
| 7 | The operation itself is usually purely formal , and only just stirs up enough dust to make you cough a little , but it is a sign that you belong to the higher or fit-to-be-dusted classes . |
| 8 | We seemed to only just muster up enough energy to go out on stage and play that day , and after the show was done we were exhausted . |
| 9 | Scared enough to go for Vecchi 's pitch that she 'd be better off hiding out some place . |
| 10 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 11 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 12 | The transition perhaps partly explains why representative democracy is so much less associated with national liberation today than in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 13 | But then he remembered he had so far made little public display of his temporary teacher from Portlington . |
| 14 | Her call sharply stepped up the pressure on Prime Minister John Major who has so far ruled out military intervention in the savage civil war . |
| 15 | Police have so far ruled out any connection between the rapes . |
| 16 | The role of general practitioners in the assessment of deliberate self-poisoning has so far received very little attention . |
| 17 | I have so far received only one explanation of what this advisory unit I am setting up is supposed to be doing . |
| 18 | In Eastern Europe the opposition movements which began to grow rapidly in the 1980s were finally successful in bringing about the collapse of the communist regimes , but they have not yet been able to create an acceptable and stable new order ; nationalist movements have proliferated , and a new labour movement has emerged which contests the policy of restoring free-market capitalism that has so far produced only economic disaster . |
| 19 | Debt collectors are a third party and that point alone often has enough psychological impact to get a debtor to pay them on their very first approach . |
| 20 | Birdsfoot trefoil accompanies blackberries and there are no less than three colours of clover , the usual white , the less common pink and a much less frequently seen deep magenta variety adding a splash of summer colour . |
| 21 | Tummy upsets are fairly common , and we believe many stem from the local water supplies , so please drink only bottled water . |
| 22 | The dominant Fianna Fail long ago gave up any pretence of offering Ireland a coherent vision for the future — a failure epitomised , for many , by the wanton destruction over the past 20 years of Georgian Dublin , once one of Europe 's finest cities . |
| 23 | So why has n't such behaviour been recorded before ? |
| 24 | The boy led them up one of the dark streets to a place where the houses were tall and thin and so closely packed together that door followed immediately upon door . |
| 25 | And they can also be distinguished on the basis of their sensitivity to another toxin , known as omega conortoxin , er which more or less specifically inhibits just one class of channel . |
| 26 | So actually seeing though first time , how much of a shock did it come to you , or was it just or was it expected ? |
| 27 | Perhaps he 's right not to attach too much importance to the Bible and to fixed ideas . |
| 28 | Having previously discussed it with John , I declined to join them on their expedition to the temples at P. as I feel it is important to them both to have time alone with each other , especially as is at the moment a bit jealous of the twin at school here ( though of course he , chose to opt out of Gordonstoun ) and has anyway not spent as much time with John in recent years as no 2 ! has . |
| 29 | The various types of absorption we have described above generally have fairly characteristic extinction coefficients . |
| 30 | In practice , under threat of dismissal or of heavy fines , or even of just not making so much money as they might , many dealers succumb to the temptation of exaggerating short-term prospects . |