Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 2 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 3 | Lastly , if tails become forked ( when closed ) through elongation of their outer feathers , lift initially increases more rapidly than drag ( as the spread tail tends toward the optimum triangular shape ) , so that aerodynamic costs are lower for long shallow forks than for simple tails . |
| 4 | The reasons most women offer for extramarital sex — boredom and a need for drama and excitement — ring fairly hollow as far as I am concerned . |
| 5 | Microsoft must foresee where the market is going , where and how to direct its effort — and do so better not just than lively young rivals eager to up-end it like IBM , but than powerful companies moving in from outside the industry . |
| 6 | Im usually pissed off enough as it is . |
| 7 | ‘ No , she only gives me money ter do the errands an' then I 'ave ter go back twice because I car n't carry them all in one go . |
| 8 | You 've already stayed much later than you said . ’ |
| 9 | In all my years on newspapers , I 've never gone as far as breaking and entering . |
| 10 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never eaten as well as I have on this trip . ’ |
| 12 | You know I 'm , in some ways you know I 'm so glad I 've never had like well before you know it used to bother me that I 'd never had a long-term relationship and that |
| 13 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 14 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 15 | A groove 7 isolates the laser section from the FET section of the vapor and need only extend as far as layer 5 . |
| 16 | The relative costs of bus , coach and rail fares since 1975 have all increased more rapidly than the costs of running a private car or motorcycle . |
| 17 | Yet today eunuchs have apparently died out everywhere except in the subcontinent . |
| 18 | ‘ In the light of the Divisional Court 's decision , we have naturally considered very carefully whether or not we should take the matter any further . |
| 19 | Some providers have already gone as far as to produce prospectuses outlining their services . |
| 20 | City firms have already stumped up more than £300 million for Taurus and are in no mood to inject any more cash into a replacement . |
| 21 | They have also gone up faster than the national figures . |
| 22 | Business sales have also fallen more sharply than at the same stages of the 1973–75 and 1981–82 recessions . |
| 23 | Social services have now diminished even further because of the war and the crisis since 1979 . |
| 24 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 25 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 26 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |
| 27 | To summarise the arguments , the critical proposition is that European companies , particularly technology-intensive ones , start from a position of disadvantage , where they have initially diversified rather broadly as multi-divisional companies and in the context of one single country . |
| 28 | One event which has lived in my memory , and which I would not have liked to repeat , was of cycling home one evening ( I lived near Altrincham ) — and I was in the middle of Barton Bridge when I heard a German bomber overhead — I have never pedalled so quickly since , realising that I was in the middle of a prime target . |