Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [that] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you , the part of you that chooses , into something a little different from what it was before . |
| 2 | MBO and venture capital fund investors are only slowly appreciating that the trade-off for the lower risk inherent in transactions that are more carefully selected and more conservatively structured than those typical in the mid-eighties has to be lower anticipated rates of return , whether the exit is via a trade sale or a flotation on to a less than receptive equity market . |
| 3 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 4 | But , at least , it lasted long enough to show that the potential and the will were there . |
| 5 | Twenty minutes later she found herself inside the Head 's office , white and trembling , so obviously terrified that the Head herself was taken aback . |
| 6 | After so long thinking that the reason for our kidnap had been bad feeling between Britain and Iran , and knowing that , before the Rushdie affair at least , fences had been mended , it was hard to believe now that it had all been a mirage . |
| 7 | Some were very short descriptive items , perhaps just mentioning that a person ( or persons ) had appeared on a remand hearing in court . |
| 8 | The fact that the price fell so steeply indicated that the gamble on the harvest had paid off , but due to delays and maladministration peasants were still starving , as we have seen . |
| 9 | The Kufra agenda had fifteen items : discussion of the first two was leisurely , so generously chaired that the assembly had to discuss the rest hurriedly in the last two evenings . |
| 10 | Silken and smooth and so deeply loving that the pain was there again … |
| 11 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 12 | The results presented so far imply that the information acquired during non-reinforced exposure to a stimulus , like that acquired as a consequence of other conditioning procedures , requires the presence of appropriate contextual cues if it is to be fully retrieved . |
| 13 | Then , by way of cheerful farewell , they say that enquiries so far confirm that the timing mechanism , once in operation , can not be neutralized and appears to be irreversible . ’ |
| 14 | Results so far confirm that the stratigraphy of the island is similar to that of Santa Isabel . |
| 15 | If the change is not well managed throughout this process , different groups ' interests may be so radically affected that the process has to degenerate into chaos before stability can be regained . |
| 16 | He stepped from the dais and glanced back , only now noticing that the altar stone was n't quite set in place , and that there was a thin gap beneath one end , which seemed to indicate that there was another pit beneath the stone . |
| 17 | And it had on painted hose of black and white , so cunningly painted that no man who saw them would have thought but that they were grieves and cuishes , unless he had laid his hand upon them ; and they put on it a surcoat of green sendal , having his arms blazoned thereon , and a helmet of parchment , which was cunningly painted that every one might have believed it to be iron ; and his shield was hung round his neck , and they placed the sword Tizona in his hand , and they raised his arm , and fastened it up so subtilly that it was a marvel to see how upright he held the sword . |
| 18 | She long ago learned that the pressure of fame and the goldfish bowl existence it brings can take a terrible toll . |
| 19 | ‘ British insects have been so well recorded that the discovery of new species is the icing on the cake of the study , ’ said Dr Holmes . |
| 20 | Although the rail journey involves a change of trains , the timetable of services is so well co-ordinated that the change is no great inconvenience . |
| 21 | The description of feelings and emotions are so well portrayed that the reader is able to feel with the character at every twist and turn of their lives . |
| 22 | Some of the features of alcoholism in its terminal phase are so well known that a cartoonist has only to draw a couple of lines for everyone to know that the subject is a " drunk " . |
| 23 | It is perhaps less well known that a number of them became ‘ lost ’ as building stone was re-used and land ploughed over . |
| 24 | It would seem to be patently unfair to dismiss a driver with a perfect record prior to a momentary lapse which results in a court imposing a penalty , simply because the works ' rules are so rigidly drawn that the employer is deprived of exercising a discretion . |
| 25 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 26 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 27 | One could perhaps likewise argue that the joining of the office of muderris of Suleyman 's medrese in Damascus with the muftilik in this case the muftilik certainly predated the medrese was an attempt to strengthen the position of the Hanafi mufti , or , alternatively , an attempt to " Ottomanize " the muftilik , since with the foundation of the medrese the joint post passed at least temporarily from the hands of local scholars into those of Ottoman scholars ; but it may equally well be that Suleyman was doing no more than following established custom in assigning the muderrislik to the mufti . |
| 28 | Interpreting the music well takes hours of listening to discover its subtleties of phrasing , rhythm and mood ; then more time should be spent on experimentation until the music and movement are so closely connected that the movement does n't work without its music . |
| 29 | The projectionist there dutifully pulled out can after can of old stock , sometimes so poorly preserved that the nitrate was destroying the footage . |
| 30 | The only sign of ostentatious flag-nationalism ( apart from aforesaid British , Dutch and a few Americans ) is among those nations who have only recently realised that the sea exists . |