Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this is a legal thing to do in Texas , an uproar over the shameless display of influence-peddling prompted most of the recipients to return the money ( mostly only after they had cashed the cheques ) . |
| 2 | It 's been all right since they 've lived here because so few people come . |
| 3 | This is especially so if they have lost their muzzles , for it is likely they will have all the food they require down there with them . |
| 4 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |
| 5 | ‘ I know you mean well , love , ’ he wrote , ‘ but Maureen and Chris have managed for so long because they have kept it so low key . |
| 6 | Nor is it good news for the majority of people who already own-especially those who became first-time buyers over the past four years and whose complete capital has been wiped out : more than a million such people are probably technically bankrupt but need not admit it so long as they keep paying their mortgage . |
| 7 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 8 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 9 | So she sent them on immediately , longing to know what they contained and never finding out , but supposing that so long as they did keep coming the worst could not yet have happened . |
| 10 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 11 | But they do so only after they 've had their seven rehearsals . ’ |
| 12 | Russian diplomats in west-European capitals until the end of the seventeenth century expected to be maintained by the rulers to whom they were accredited , and often complained vociferously when they were treated less generously than they had expected . |
| 13 | Would they dare risk alienating public opinion so soon after they had regained it ? |
| 14 | It is tempting to discuss Freud 's ideas much further since they have permeated modern psychological thinking . |
| 15 | I doubt that any of the Israelites wandering in the desert and occasionally venturing down to the water would have written those lines about God being mightier quite so confidently if they had seen big Waimea . |
| 16 | They raise questions about the notion that it guarantees a common curricular entitlement in so far as they yield teaching strategies which are applied to children classified as having learning difficulties , but not to others . |
| 17 | Although video recordings may have a strong appeal , in so far as they appear to capture a more complete picture of any speech episode , they have major disadvantages in that they are highly obtrusive , they usually need to be manned and they are relatively cumbersome if the child has to be followed around . |
| 18 | yeah , no , not that we come back to that in a moment or to , I 'm just trying to see where this leads us though Mr , erm as a matter of legal analysis , erm y-y-y- your complaint , one particular one we 're talking about is that erm these standard , these are standard degrees which offend the competition rules now if it , if that 's right would not the consequence by erm across the ball , you 're saying you only , you only would render them invalid in so far as they happen to do any , happened to have done any particular name of , er that , I ca n't think , it did n't seem to be in any of the erm cases we 've looked at where the competition rules were applied , but that was a necessary condition if , if , if it 's that if it 's void , if people have suffered a loss as a result of it they can recover a lost , you do n't have to show a loss do you in order to , to , to be declared void |
| 19 | Before the case came to a hearing Parliament sought to improve the revenue 's position by enacting with retrospective effect section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1986 , but this proved ineffective for the purpose and on 31 July 1987 Nolan J. [ 1987 ] S.T.C. 654 decided that the regulations complained of were ultra vires and void in so far as they purported to provide for the imposition of tax on interests and dividends paid by building societies prior to 6 April 1986 , and made an order accordingly . |
| 20 | Indeed , it may even be possible to argue that certain types of reservation of title clause are caught by s3 , in so far as they purport to allow the seller to retain title until certain conditions are fulfilled , and therefore permit it to render a performance substantially different from that reasonably expected of it , or no performance at all . |
| 21 | In so far as they did see a coming energy source they thought it would be atomic energy , and they wrote the treaty that 's called the Euratom Treaty to cover this , but it did n't cover oil , and that is perhaps why it 's been a much less contentious subject . |
| 22 | In so far as they have grown up in an ad hoc fashion , designed by the art colleges on an individual basis , it is difficult to generalize about them . |
| 23 | so far as they have made some er adjustment , we will be able to judge whether the scale of adjustment they 've made was a was a reasonable thing . |
| 24 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 25 | McGilligan 's views will meet with general approval and reflect the mood in the Derry camp just now as they prepare to meet Dublin on Sunday week . |
| 26 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 27 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 28 | They drove back more carefully than they had come , Rory well aware of every aching mile , all thirty-five and more of them . |
| 29 | One third of them also admitted they would drive more carefully if they had to buy their own cars and pay all the running and repair costs . |
| 30 | Teachers have been found to attend to disruptive , inattentive ( 'off-task' ) behaviour in their classrooms three times more often than they attend to appropriate behaviour . |