Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are erm it was er steak and kidney pie , brussels sprouts , carrots and bo plain boiled potatoes I could only eat about half the kidney and meat , I cou I could only eat about a third of the pastry , could n't cope with the carrots at all or the brussel sprouts , they were beautiful brussel sprouts like little cabbages , you know I could only eat a couple of them ! |
| 2 | The story of what is going on in the airline industry will perhaps provide as good an example as any of the gap which is growing between what is proposed in the ‘ competition Directives ’ and how matters are likely to work out in practice as a result of the distortions caused by subsidy . |
| 3 | The timing of his leaving would naturally suggest just such a conclusion . |
| 4 | It w it 'll take erm roughly about erm it 'll perhaps stop about half the light |
| 5 | For a right of participation to be meaningful it would obviously require as free a flow of information as possible and the development of institutions securing equality of access and influence for all participants . |
| 6 | ‘ I could n't just throw away all the work I 'd already done ! ’ |
| 7 | The producer did finally arrive about half an hour into the party , and he scurried around meeting everyone , making up for his earlier absence . |
| 8 | And what do you do , do you just put so much a week in a kitty for that ? |
| 9 | One does quite generally find more all the time . |
| 10 | Not only do women still provide nearly all the care for the old , the sick and the young ( and most of it still unpaid ) , but also social policies are still framed , allocated and delivered on the assumption that they do so . |
| 11 | Mr Hann : ‘ You can still have as simple a system as the tanker going to and from the store , parking up on the headland , connecting up and then injecting . |
| 12 | Most dolphins and small whales travel in groups broader than they are long , which allows them to acoustically scan as large an area as possible . |
| 13 | I watch I 'll probably watch about half an hour tonight , an hour tomorrow night . |
| 14 | It could also prove too great a hurdle for Mr Gould , a well-known Euro-sceptic , who made clear that he would be pressing for Labour to rethink its economic policy and to advocate realignment of the pound within the European exchange rate mechanism to enable it to put forward more positive policies on industry and employment . |
| 15 | It took George several hours to get used to the fact that I was deceitful and irresponsible , but eventually he agreed that we might as well get as good a price as we could — £10 , he thought , if they had n't spotted the broken springs . |
| 16 | Equally , an area on a graphics tablet can form an extremely flexible form of control ; for example , a diagram could be laid over such a tablet — the user could then see clearly all the control possibilities and by touching the correct part of the diagram he could control the program with ease . |
| 17 | The process of indexing should therefore employ as large a lexicon as possible . |
| 18 | Do tell me , believe me that in me you have the best audience of your life , you will never find as good an audience as me . " |