Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , audit committees function most effectively when their members understand clearly the financial reporting process , the types of issue that can affect that process , and the relationships between management , auditors and regulators . |
| 2 | Drink slowly so that your glass stays fuller longer . |
| 3 | ‘ Yours , of course , ’ said Mrs Harper , grimly : so grimly that her reply seemed like wit . |
| 4 | Paige felt the shooting pleasure so keenly that her hand clutched frantically at his hair . |
| 5 | Well it 's all right because my daughter 's got one her music cassette thing whatever . |
| 6 | All right until their number comes up as it were . |
| 7 | Everything was perfectly all right until your mother came along . " |
| 8 | Woosnam has been thinking of changing to a ‘ cack-handed ’ grip on the greens left hand below right because his putting has been so poor in recent weeks . |
| 9 | She moped so badly after your father died . ’ |
| 10 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 11 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 12 | for a whole , W , to exist it is not normally enough merely that its parts exist , rather it is required that they exist in a certain arrangement , in a certain set of relations to each other . |
| 13 | This is especially so when your goods have been changed into or mixed with something else or when your customer or your goods or both have disappeared . |
| 14 | Cornwall was particularly prone to revivals , so much so that their occurrence suggests their functional role was one of periodic recruitment to and consolidation of the membership . |
| 15 | We must return to the world , I fear , but first — ’ And he kissed her cheek , so gently that her tears flowed again , only they were tears of joy , not pain . |
| 16 | ‘ Certainly it 's what I want , ’ said Robyn , so fiercely that her mother let the subject drop . |
| 17 | Their noses bumped gently together and their mouths tasted and explored and caressed hungrily . |
| 18 | Westley explains how he made sure he stayed around long enough so that his respondents had to talk , because of the difficulty people have of remaining silent for long ( 1970 , p. viii ) . |
| 19 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 20 | Beasant 's goalkeeping spared Chelsea another drubbing at Crystal Palace on Boxing Day and so long as their strikers remain on target they could get a decent result today . |
| 21 | But they have also beaten the Redskins 8–4 and 9–6 at Riverside and Chelmsford are the fancied side , so long as their imports play well and the youngsters give their all . |
| 22 | This means that Snotlings can be very frustrating to fight , because no matter how many are slain they keep fighting so long as their neighbours hold steady . |
| 23 | The population , though reduced to eating cats and dogs , fought back , however , so long as their ammunition lasted , with 16-pounder [ 7.3-kg ] and 24-pounder [ 11-kg ] cannon , continuous musket fire and frequent sorties and on 30 July an expedition led by General Kirke rammed the boom ; the following day , as the first stores were being unloaded , the siege was abandoned , having lasted 105 days . |
| 24 | According to my religion , I could , so long as my wife grants her consent . |
| 25 | The essence of what Mr Hussain said was that following the marriage he would remain in England on a settled basis as a married man for just so long as his wife dictated . |
| 26 | In a two-person game , if player 1 adopts strategy A and player 2 adopts B this constitutes a Nash equilibrium if neither player would gain by changing his strategy , so long as his opponent sticks to his . |
| 27 | Liverpool beckoned , just so long as his legs remained sound . |
| 28 | Does n't mean I 'm going to die prematurely just because my face has character . ’ |
| 29 | Italy did not raise rates because they were considered high enough already and its inflation has been falling . |
| 30 | Shilton rightly won the PFA 's player award , while Burns re-formed so impressively that we writers voted him Footballer of the Year . |