Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A binary opposition , penis versus no penis , rather obviously fails to capture the reality of sexual difference . |
| 2 | Auer was suspended in a hanging basket , his dead legs dangling beneath him , reaching out with a surreally long scoop to dredge the chips into a central sinkhole . |
| 3 | The meso- and metathorax become more or less intimately associated to form a pterothorax and the union is often so close that the limits of those regions can only be ascertained with difficulty . |
| 4 | The fingers on the clock of St Joseph 's church pointed to eight , though it had long since ceased to chime the hours . |
| 5 | For we have long since ceased to regard the raising of houses in such an offhand fashion , even when they are to the glory only of the home-owning democracy . |
| 6 | As regards restoration , just as we would not dream of stripping out the original interior of the Blackfriar , by the same token we would not seek to preserve a Thirties estate pub which had long since ceased to address the needs of the community it was built to serve . |
| 7 | We are literally only trying to get the appointments so that we can |
| 8 | The result is that they will be using their back muscles , instead of their huge thigh muscles which are much better equipped to do the job . |
| 9 | The foregoing review has been necessary to demonstrate what now seems almost unbelievable ; that physical geography for so long contrived to ignore the significance of human activity and thence the potential which associated studies afford . |
| 10 | Eiji has made extremely long trains to form an arch , the biggest of which he was invited to fly in happier times at Kuwait . |
| 11 | She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance . |
| 12 | Sweat from his hand began to soften the crisp white document that had been drawn up after many long night-time meetings when they had all finally agreed to form a co-operative . |
| 13 | The investors will obviously not wish to provide the managers with a veto over any potential syndication partner . |
| 14 | Mrs. Fairfax , looking elegant and unruffled , and obviously not going to cook a thing , was greeting her daughter 's guests . |
| 15 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 16 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |
| 17 | However , to say this to a country which is only just beginning to enjoy the benefits of industrialisation is not easy . |
| 18 | But , in Britain , it was election year , and , in America , President Johnson was only just beginning to grasp the reins of power after Kennedy 's assassination , and so little political progress was made . |
| 19 | Even Xerox 's Ventura , which is the closest thing yet to TechDoc in a desktop publishing package , is only just beginning to tackle the problem of networking . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're only just beginning to open the door ’ Matthews said . |
| 21 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |
| 22 | This aspect of evaluation is only just beginning to receive the attention it deserves . |
| 23 | The steady gaze was only just beginning to show a hint of scorn . |
| 24 | He grew his first ones as a young child in 1936 and modestly claims he 's only just beginning to get the hang of it now . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't mind at all , ’ Shannon returned evenly , only just managing to stifle a grin as she caught sight of Josh rolling his eyes . |
| 26 | This target looks realistic because Corning is only just starting to reap the rewards of patiently pursuing earlier long-term investments . |
| 27 | After three days in the Grand Canyon I was only just starting to appreciate the size and scale of the place . |
| 28 | At school , aged fourteen , I was only just starting to trim the fur off my jaw while some of the Spanish or Arab boys would be tucking in with razor and foam . |
| 29 | Doctors at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford have only just started to keep a record , but so far they treated six people for barfly injuries . |
| 30 | He was nineteen years of age and had only just qualified to receive the King 's shilling ; but now he was a couple of inches taller , shaved and had even come near to losing his virginity . |