Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is most effectively done using some variant of the ‘ whistle-a-happy-tune ’ strategy . |
| 2 | Pippo continued to bother us , though we had long since stopped taking any notice of him , and the Allied air attacks continued . |
| 3 | He handled it all like a veteran superstar who has long since learned to accept that fame and fortune have a downside , as well as an upside . |
| 4 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |
| 5 | The institutions themselves , being closer to the work in question , were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility . |
| 6 | He seemed to be much better equipped to accept political realities than I was . |
| 7 | With regard to an absence of market demand , the economic development strategy produced by the County Council refers to inward investment , it refers to this as being a small portion of the portion of er job growth , the county is not necessarily best placed to attract inward investment in terms of the the type of economy that we have based on small firms and the availability of labour . |
| 8 | The only freedom that the Government appear to understand is the freedom of the market even though it has so patently failed to deliver enough housing , child care or training . |
| 9 | Six months , and you 'll be , three fifty , and she 's only just started getting three quid . |
| 10 | She 's only once tried to make some bread . |
| 11 | While it may be bad news for the top two auctioneers it seems to many that Phillips and Bonhams will both benefit , for they appear much more prepared to accept lower value items for their sales . |
| 12 | Similarly , few word processing packages can accurately hyphenate and justify text that is proportionally spaced as they were only ever designed to handle monospaced characters . |
| 13 | the course is so like geared to like one textbook , you know |
| 14 | Reports in Washington suggested that the Gulf states had so far refused to allocate any money to Jordan because of its apparent support for Iraq [ see also p. 38024 ] . |
| 15 | If , as Pieda and the SWA are suggesting , there is a community of interest between the industry and the Treasury , why have ministers so far refused to take any action despite the lobbying campaign that has been mounted ? |
| 16 | Despite the stigma and stress associated with a court case that threatened him with jail , he has so far managed to score 17 goals for Brentford in the First Division this season . |
| 17 | But excavations have so far failed to support this image and indeed have indicated a town in decline . |
| 18 | Transport , energy provision , religion , law and order , race relations , entertainment , continuity and change — the 75 pamphlets so far published offer fascinating perspectives on the evolution of the city . |
| 19 | Items so far recovered include prehistoric flint instruments , medieval pottery , a seventeenth-century water wheel , eighteenth-century clay ovens for scalding Devonshire cream , and nineteenth-century cider presses and apple crushers . |
| 20 | Apart form the unwieldiness of the procedure and the inevitably sporadic character of the intervention , judges are not obviously well qualified to make substantive evaluations of business policy . |
| 21 | The United States , which like Germany had hitherto strongly favoured maintaining Yugoslav integrity , made it clear on July 2 that it did not support the use of force to preserve this integrity , and on the same day President Bush indicated in a letter to the recently installed ( Croat ) head of the Collective State Presidency , Stjepan Mesic [ see p. 38275 ] , that it would accept the republics ' independence if achieved peacefully . |
| 22 | ‘ I suggest that Hazelbank Park is not only unique but especially well placed to afford enormous benefits to Rathcoole estate , ’ he added . |
| 23 | The commemorative battle was sufficiently well choreographed to avoid serious damage … although there were still plenty of cuts and bruises . |
| 24 | But homeotherms are not so well structured to accommodate chronic changes in temperature . |
| 25 | The eyes of predators are finely tuned to the slightest movement , but are less well equipped to distinguish static shapes , especially if their outlines are blurred by broken patterning or by foliage cover . |
| 26 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 27 | The new techniques were used to ‘ improve ’ existing therapy , while fundamental research into the causes of diabetes has only recently begun to yield important results . |
| 28 | and it was in this field that the pluralists most persistently attempted to combine empirical methods with assumptions which , if they were not entirely Madisonian , at least fitted prevailing norms rather better than the emerging stark elitism . |
| 29 | According to Vasily Kazakov , who led the study , the youngest children affected were contaminated in 1986 even before they were born , when their thyroid glands were already sufficiently developed to absorb radioactive iodine . |
| 30 | Alan Callandine , the Midland Railway Trust 's Development Officer , has commented that this is a great opportunity to ride behind this wonderful locomotive which is normally only seen hauling main steam charters . |