Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The texture of a school may be made up of old-fashioned and perhaps idealized certainties as far as parents are concerned . |
| 2 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |
| 3 | Folk said only trust foreigners as far as th'could see 'em — no further . |
| 4 | This last choice is desirable but it only delays things so far as getting home is concerned , since the forest road stops on the frontier some three miles away , and there you can but turn round . |
| 5 | The best solution to dealing with problems at home , however , is just to talk things out calmly and honestly and try to reach a compromise . |
| 6 | He needs time skills as well , instead of just doing things as soon as possible because you get to the things that become more pressing take over , |
| 7 | I do n't normally pick things out just because of odd wordings , and start checking it out . |
| 8 | Ironically , some of the aids to vision which can be helpful in assisting the pupil to see more clearly , and thus perform tasks more adroitly and effectively , may be rejected by the pupil because of a dislike of looking different . |
| 9 | Mr Blunkett also says the conservatives replacement for the poll tax , the council tax would still make families worse off than labours scheme . |
| 10 | ‘ You know we always used candles down here when we were using the workbench , Joe . |
| 11 | Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ? |
| 12 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 13 | These specially created ideologies more often than not give the believer a clear place in the scheme of things , by providing a definite identity . |
| 14 | Neeme Järvi probably turns recordings out faster than any other artist in recorded history . |
| 15 | Er both got feet in just as goals were about to be shot and scored . |
| 16 | However , the majority of teachers who were interviewed claimed that they had not done anything different from what they would have done were they not being observed , but that they had probably prepared lessons more carefully and thought things through more . |
| 17 | These will only be resolved in the course of an internal struggle , which will eventually produce governments neither more nor less enlightened than , for instance , those which have ruled over western Europe for the last five hundred years . |
| 18 | Office blocks , shopping centres , universities , new flats , renovated flats , office blocks , office blocks , they do n't really build churches much anymore cos they do n't need them , erm what else do they build ? |
| 19 | Viability , similarly , will no longer serve as a moral cutoff point : sophisticated life-support systems can now sustain fetuses as early as 20 weeks and even that limit is being pushed further and further back towards conception . |
| 20 | Please send entries as soon as possible . |
| 21 | Sarah knew she was slow , and she tried hard to grasp things more quickly and to keep her mind on the task or game in hand , but she did n't always succeed . |
| 22 | Pioneering entomologists undoubtedly saw Laboulbeniales quite frequently while examining insects , but mostly regarded these oddities as some sort of malformed exoskeletal growths . |
| 23 | Around half of those who replied ( 56% ) had never before visited the Library 's exhibitions , and only about a quarter ( 23% ) had previously visited exhibitions more frequently than once a year . |
| 24 | Tied cottages also depressed farm wages , making farm workers unable to afford council house rents-Thus , the rents could not be lowered without raising the rates , while farmers were not going voluntarily to raise wages just so that their workers could afford to live in council houses . |
| 25 | Kathleen evidently ran things around here and nothing could be done without her say-so . |
| 26 | Large-scale commercialised farming , that is agribusiness and domestic agricultural enterprises , have to compete with other big corporations for investment capital and markets and must therefore make profits as efficiently as possible . |