Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soane Mausoleum in St Pancras Gardens , London was designed by Sir John Soane in 1815–16 and is one of five monuments by that great eccentric of British neo-Classical and Romantic architecture , Sir John Soane , which the Soane Monuments Trust has restored or plans to restore as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Out of five tenders Arthur Butler was selected and asked to build as soon as possible . |
| 3 | Meanwhile government forces had consolidated their positions deep inside UNITA territory near Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base , which the government claimed to have captured in February following heavy fighting , and sought to penetrate as far as the rebel headquarters at Jamba . |
| 4 | Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) . |
| 5 | The plume of smoke from these fires now covers about 15,000 square kilometres ( 5,800 square miles ) and has drifted as far as Iran . |
| 6 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 7 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 8 | The key principles for the care of dementia sufferers are set out in the SAD Report " Dementia in Scotland , Priorities for Care , Strategies for Change " as follows : People with dementia are entitled to : the same respect and regard for dignity and privacy as anyone else the same range and quality of services as other citizens opportunities to enhance their capabilities a range of services to support their declining abilities emotional and social care and support live as independently as possible and in familiar surroundings for as long as possible actively participate as far as practicable in decisions affecting their daily lives and future care . |
| 9 | You should ring the Samaritans the moment you feel suicidal and get help as soon as possible from your doctor . |
| 10 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 11 | He rode away complacently , sure of his countrymen , whose deaths he had been so busy arranging , and meant to buy as cheaply as possible . |
| 12 | Cecil Melling ( the chairman of the Eastern Board , who had supported Schiller 's work since before nationalisation and took costing more seriously than his fellow chairmen ) for a time gained the support of the Central Authority 's commercial department for the better reflection of off-peak costs in the bulk tariff , but the other Area Board chairmen strongly opposed the initiative . |
| 13 | In line with recent methodological trends , the stories are enjoyable for their own sake , and aim to resemble as closely as possible the style of book children would choose to read in their first language . |
| 14 | By the end of the second day the allies claimed to have taken 20,000 prisoners , to have destroyed 270 enemy tanks and to have progressed more rapidly than anticipated . |
| 15 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 16 | A large proportion of the younger generation , growing up during the Nazi era and highly impressionable , had been fully exposed to the suggestive force of propaganda and had succumbed more uncritically than any other section of the population to the emotional appeal of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 17 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 18 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 19 | Not only men , but women and children too knitted stockings , socks , shirts , gloves , cravats and other fabrics on a frame in their cottage and continued to do so long after steam power had been applied to their craft during the middle years of the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | For example , in : ( 40 ) I was born in London and have lived there ever since there refers back to whatever place London refers to , but simultaneously contrasts with here on the deictic dimension of space , locating the utterance outside London . |
| 21 | The Johnstons have made more than 100 egg creations in the past three years and have travelled as far as Australia and American to pursue their hobby . |
| 22 | Older people comprise a large proportion of those living in poverty in Britain and have done so ever since the systematic studies of Charles Booth ( 1894 ) at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | This contrasts with unfitted bedroom furniture , such as wardrobes , chests of drawers and dressing tables , which are a set size and have to fit as best as possible into the space available , often leaving awkward gaps . |
| 24 | We shall not only survive but continue to grow so long as we give value for money , retain our record of innovation and flexibility , keep the confidence and goodwill of our clients and ensure that we have the best possible range of materials , methods and people in the industry . |
| 25 | The trousers are not water resistant , but do dry very quickly when wet . |
| 26 | The German Communist Party had not only failed to carry out.the revolution but had vanished as rapidly as the Social Democrats . |