Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it so restrict as effectively to frustrate the actual development permitted ? |
| 2 | But performance alone has never yet ensured the job of a French nationalised industry chairman . |
| 3 | One of the oddities of the situation since her ‘ descent ’ was that most of her clothes had remained in the cupboards upstairs , she had felt unable to go and fetch them , and evidently the other two had felt too embarrassed to carry them down , or perhaps had simply not noticed the problem . |
| 4 | Abortive attempts in our time to shuffle off the whole experience and make light of its impact have only begun comparatively recently to attract the attention of psycho-analysts . |
| 5 | You are very alive , very active … you just travel too fast to see the end result . |
| 6 | I 've already eaten enough today to do a man for a week . |
| 7 | Benjamin had just lived long enough to see the first of his children married : Ella Frances May Titford 's wedding had taken place on 26 August 1905 , in that very church in which her father was to collapse eight days later . |
| 8 | Application forms appeared in the July issue of The Red Triangle — if you no longer have this please contact the Alumni Office at Napier University for an application form . |
| 9 | The inexperienced advice worker thus need no longer feel a burden on colleagues , as the need for support has formally been recognised . |
| 10 | But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics . |
| 11 | Parent companies can thereby keep under tight control the capital they have tied up in idle stocks and make substantial savings on fixed outlay in storage or warehousing . |
| 12 | Of all the treatments for obesity , none could be more physiological or less psychological than the operation known as jejeunoileostomy or ileal bypass , in which most of the small intestine is short circuited thus greatly reducing the amount of intestine available for absorbing food . |
| 13 | Beware of swing sequences that show the late hit of the hands , as illustrated in Diagram A. This position at halfway in the downswing may be ideal for the skilled or powerful player , because the hands and lower arms will still release early enough to return the clubface squarely to the back of the ball . |
| 14 | No , no I think it 's just that er , then your sorts of signs I think to indicate that , that was a no ball because it was , I 'm sure an unintentional er beamer and er , they still did well really to get a bit of back on here so . |
| 15 | I was still trying hard not to rock the boat , not to upset either the FO or WTN , and was desperate to find a way of making uncontroversial remarks sound interesting . |
| 16 | ‘ It says something for the civilising effect of our upbringing that we can both sit here calmly sharing a meal together when we freely admit to the same deep-seated and violent antipathy . ’ |
| 17 | Betty Titford , Thomas 's wife , received help because she was sick ; Thomas himself was out of work in 1801 , and qualified for relief both on that score and because he was the head of a one-parent family which included a sick daughter ; Hephzibah , the little orphan , had been helped and then apprenticed by the overseers , and finally John and Ann , briefly subsidised during times of economic dearth , eventually survived long enough to collect a very modest old-age pension . |
| 18 | Income tax : the basic rate of tax has been reduced from 33 per cent to 25 per cent , the top rate of tax has been reduced from 83 per cent to 40 per cent and investment is now treated more favourably following the removal of the investment income surcharge . |
| 19 | Goschenen then is the place of decisions : whether to take the tunnel through to Italian-speaking Ticino and southern climes , or to proceed to Andermatt on the old Gotthard road which now climbs sharply up to cross the Reuss tributary and after some hairpin bends enters the forbidding rock walls of the Schollenen gorge which took centuries for road builders to master , first by bridle paths on suspended plank bridges and in more modern days by tunnels and galleries as well as daring bridges Emerging from the gorge the road crosses the Reuss waterfall on the " Devil 's bridge " and enters the wide Urseren valley in which Andermatt lies , occupying the strategic position at the " crossroads of Switzerland " or even of Europe — where the main west-east route carved out of the high alpine massif by the Rhine and Rhone rivers crosses the north-south route gouged out by rivers Reuss and Ticino . |
| 20 | Since employee interests will not always be best served by a policy of profit maximisation , it is follows that section 309 , on this first interpretation , will sometimes require , or at least permit , management behaviour to diverge from that which in Chapter 1 was provisionally accepted as best serving the general interest . |
| 21 | Westminster environmental protection officer Sid Geake says the council has just about cracked the problem of multiple signs , but is now going even further to curb the blight . |
| 22 | It now costs significantly less to buy a computer — or a ‘ work station ’ as it is known in the trade — than it does to pay someone to sit behind it . |
| 23 | Integration now seems more likely following an EC report in late 1985 . |
| 24 | They so often have long since lost the literal meaning of their origins , and thus they are frequently capable of causing gross confusion and comic misunderstanding . |
| 25 | They often sat together not saying a word , which is maybe the best way to get on with anybody . |
| 26 | These were the deep furrows etched in the sand to help the Nairn transport , but I rather think more so to help the pilots of the period to find their way across the route from Rutbah Wells to Damascus , or indeed from Baghdad to Rutbah Wells . |
| 27 | Beyond the car park , the road contours the hillside , two branches going down to the coastal dwellings of Inver Alligin , and then turns sharply uphill to force a narrow passage across a bare and rocky headland on the last stage of its journey . |
| 28 | Owners Abroad has consistently fiercely opposed the Airtours bid . |
| 29 | Long , straight fingers of light searched the sky in sweeping arcs , meeting , touching briefly as if in greeting , then sweeping away again to circle the brooding night . |
| 30 | Lucenzo 's eyes closed briefly and then snapped open again to reveal a hot , blazing fury . |