Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd much rather sit by the pool . ’ |
| 2 | Eh , , I mean there 's a idea the money that 's been spent on the railways instead of on motorways we 'd be a lot better off , and I think and Partners subscribed to that because I think that erm , had more money being spent on the railways that we would have been much better off , oh I 'd much rather go on a train journey than on a motor bridge journey . |
| 3 | ‘ In my life , Oh why do I give valuable time to people who I 'd much rather kick in the eye ? ’ |
| 4 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 5 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 6 | The official Tass news agency announced on Jan. 1 that Soviet troops would henceforth only serve in the Transcaucasus on a voluntary basis . |
| 7 | Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins . |
| 8 | Hence , whether a child is placed with a foster family or in residential care may not so much depend on the child 's needs but on where he or she happens to live . |
| 9 | Because the external examiners are coming into the child 's environment , they might only just walk through the school , but you 'd hope that they would pick up something of the ambience ; plus the work can be presented how the child wants to present it . |
| 10 | Nor did Gillian , who talked just as if she 'd only just run to the signpost and back . |
| 11 | When the life of a child can so easily hang in the balance , is there not a case for recommending that all parents attend a practical course in first aid , rather than relying on the printed page ? |
| 12 | It can so easily look like a stunt or be represented as a desire wilfully to shape malleable material . |
| 13 | Besides , with this creed I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime , I can so sincerely forgive the first , while I abhor the last with this creed revenge never worries my heart , degradation never too deeply disgusts me , injustice never crushes me too low , I live in calm looking to the end . |
| 14 | Among those concerned with language teaching some assume that such a model must also be directly relevant to problems of pedagogy , that in general the principles and objectives which define the discipline of linguistics must necessarily also apply to the subject of language teaching in the school curriculum . |
| 15 | So y w feel free now to ask questions I mean , you must have something that worries you about about this partic I can only really talk about the exam . |
| 16 | Some have been accused — rightly or wrongly — of preferring not to sell all their available time rather than to reduce their price , and most areas now follow a practice which can only really work in a seller 's market — ‘ pre-emption ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Obviously it would be good to look at more examples from different cultures , but it 's such a huge subject , in ten weeks you can only really deal with the tip of the iceberg . |
| 18 | In the government 's view it is wrong that planning decisions about land use should so often result in the realizing of unearned increments by the owners of the land to which they apply , and that desirable development should be frustrated by owners withholding their land in the hope of higher prices . |
| 19 | Because the employee could only therefore point to the licensing fee as a tangible form of benefit , he also argued that the employer 's use of the valve in the steel production process at its South Teesside plant generated other economic benefits . |
| 20 | Now I know that I 'm going and Alma 's going , but we 've yet to decide I would rather just go to the crematorium |
| 21 | I would just rather march at the head of the unit as I have done on many other occasions . ’ |
| 22 | You can easily enough slip in a clue in two quick words somewhere , but when at the end of a book you say that your detective solved the case from noticing that one briefly-stated fact , the reader will experience a sense of let-down . |
| 23 | because so he can just like pop in every day |
| 24 | Ollie could just about manage on the violin . |
| 25 | We could just about race at the moment , ’ said clerk of the course Nick Cheyne . |
| 26 | ’ Only that someone said is n't it luck for Gharr that he could just about pass as an Ardakkean if he dyed his hair … ’ |
| 27 | In the lower , colder parts , though , there is much more solid material on the surface , on the flanks and in front , and the lava can no longer simply advance over the top of the mass of its own rubble in front of it . |
| 28 | The petitioning period expires , in the case of a November order on 22nd January and in the case of a March order on 23rd May , and the agent would normally then report to the client on petitions received , examine the petitions and advise on the action taken to settle them or to meet them in the inquiry . |
| 29 | Erm well perhaps before I answer that question Mr Chairman , I could just briefly skim across the programme and bring you up to date as to where we are and then we 'll go directly on to that point . |
| 30 | In general , the move is towards supporting the spoken language so that deaf children can more easily fit into the community as a whole , but perhaps the key insight from Tervoort 's study is the perception of the range of solution available to educators in different countries . |