Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They should have had much better control and devised their computerisation rather more effectively than they did . ’ |
| 32 | Indeed it could be argued that learning from success is even more useful than learning from mistakes because , by and large , things go right more often than they go wrong . |
| 33 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 34 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 35 | Although the skirt panels look perfectly flat when seen on air , in reality they follow varying angles to the original base vertical planes , bending ever so slightly as they rise up from the fender section to join up at the midriff . |
| 36 | Only later was this amended to allow the return of Yugoslavs home so long as they went willingly . |
| 37 | And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all . |
| 38 | I know that nowadays the congregations at chapels have sadly declined but if the services lasted as long today as they did in my childhood they would be empty altogether . |
| 39 | We are told that the global military expenditure every year amounts to £235,000 million , twice as much as the nations spend on health , and half as much again as they spend on education . |
| 40 | The $100m that clubs are paying in players ' wages this year is more than half as much again as they paid in 1990 . |
| 41 | I can not say whether or not they impinged as much then as they seem to with retrospect . |
| 42 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 43 | The consequence is that most single parents , who have to pay someone to look after their children while at work , are now worse off if they continue part-time work , and the number of single parents in work is likely to drop dramatically because of this change . |
| 44 | Now as far as they know their money is coming . |
| 45 | The school parties stuck as rigidly together as they had done upon Victoria Station , lacking only their uniforms and labels , disastrously hampered by lack of space . |
| 46 | This is the language of the dictator and it is exactly why those who manage land are so concerned at the activities of the water authorities , even more so if they become commercial profit-orientated concerns . |
| 47 | A strike rate of just over one goal every two games is exceptional by any standards , even more so considering they have been scored in a struggling team . |
| 48 | You do n't belong here any more than they do . ’ |
| 49 | Panicky observers murmured that the market was even worse off than they had feared . |
| 50 | The factories on the east bank of the Medway were even worse off as they had no direct railway outlet and also a poor road system . |
| 51 | She said yeah I said alright then so whether they 'd got someone there then I do n't know . |
| 52 | Generally , they are either very active working dogs , or very excitable ones , who work incredibly hard even though they do n't really achieve anything . |
| 53 | I doubt that any of the Israelites wandering in the desert and occasionally venturing down to the water would have written those lines about God being mightier quite so confidently if they had seen big Waimea . |
| 54 | People just did n't take themselves quite so seriously as they do at Crufts . |
| 55 | He took Sotheby 's into the art financing business , and directed staff to cultivate potential buyers at least as carefully as they had hitherto cultivated sellers . |
| 56 | Once returns began to grow and disillusion amongst consumers had set in , the new players began to withdraw from the market almost as quickly as they had entered . |
| 57 | The storms seldom last long and the floods subside almost as quickly as they arise . |
| 58 | When they have moved forwards as far as they feel they want to go they then leave one of the bottles , place both their hands on the other and have to get back without touching the the floor with any part of their body . |
| 59 | Despite this , most people persist in proposing their ideas at least twice as often as they suggest them ! |
| 60 | ‘ What computers can easily do is to enable unskilled people to produce rubbish twice as quickly as they did before , ’ Forsyth remarks . |