Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 2 | Parents may feel upset whatever the age of their teenage daughter , but those with younger daughters are obviously going to react more negatively than those with older teenagers . |
| 3 | I only began to work so hard because it was a way of filling all those empty hours without you . ’ |
| 4 | The fourth boy , however , slipped and fell to his knees and was only beginning to scramble upright again when the fender caught his chest with a thud that shook the vehicle . |
| 5 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 6 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 7 | A unit only continues to operate so long as it is successful . |
| 8 | My heart would suddenly start beating very fast as though my life was beating out of me . |
| 9 | They 're buying a three bedroom place for the next they 're just just going to move there just as they 're going to have twins . |
| 10 | Could you all just stop breathing now please till we get home ! |
| 11 | And Novotna admitted : ‘ I just kept playing as hard as I could . |
| 12 | An interesting sidelight on battlefront conditions came from his remarks that the Peshmerga brought in for attention mainly tended to be suffering from wounds to their limbs from weapons such as Kalashnikovs , since those who sustained head or body injuries generally failed to get as far as a field hospital . |
| 13 | There was no way I was ever going to ride as well as he did and he surely knew it . |
| 14 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 15 | America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened . |
| 16 | We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained . |
| 17 | With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment . |
| 18 | Moreover having gone as far as this I do not believe that it would be possible for me to hold the line and refuse to answer any further questions about the composition and activities of the Committees . |
| 19 | I 've always tried to play as intensely as I can . |
| 20 | More people than ever wanted to live there rather than in towns and 79 per cent took the view that the countryside was in danger . |
| 21 | I think that 's had it , I think the er man from customs Simon was saving that , the man took it all apart and I think that 's why it probably got broken so quickly because I think they messed with it . |
| 22 | He 's probably also going to do very well when he gets there . |
| 23 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
| 24 | Instead of relaxing and letting nature take its course — it would probably have passed quite easily when he passed his water — he panicked and tried to remove the safety pin by not so gentle manipulations from the outside . |
| 25 | We know from an article he wrote entitled The New Course of Our Economic Policy' that he enthusiastically endorsed NEP as early as August 1921 . |
| 26 | We would rather have gone somewhere else if that was what we wanted ; it was n't quite right somehow and so we painted the windows up again . ) |
| 27 | I actually wanted to that I did n't really want to go as far as for example deciding that the chair what they are voting would be within the resources available to the . |
| 28 | we do n't really need to go any further because we 've found it 's not balanced but we just for completeness , how many Cs on this side ? |
| 29 | ‘ We 're picking clients up left , right and centre from all sorts of people who 've been charging pretty fancy fees and really failing to do any better than we do , ’ says Michael Read , head of the private client department . |
| 30 | Experience shows that dieters very often prefer to eat alone rather than at the family table contrary to the exhortation ‘ make this for the family too ’ beloved by diet experts . |