Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils with special educational needs , like all other pupils , should have the opportunity to experience as far as possible the full range of the English curriculum . |
| 2 | The halogen bulb 's unique regenerative cycle means that the filament does not wear out , the glass does not blacken , and the bulb lasts much longer than ordinary bulbs in fact , for between 2000 and 400 hours — all of which makes the halogen bulb an extremely efficient form of lighting . |
| 3 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
| 4 | Keep the board moving as fast as possible . |
| 5 | Get the board moving as fast as possible with the centreboard retracted . |
| 6 | The Canadians arrived little more than 36 hours before their first tie and even in a bounce game against recruits at the army camp where they trained yesterday , they found it very taxing . |
| 7 | It was argued that this was needed to allow the husband to do the field work as quickly as possible and so release him for more off-farm employment . |
| 8 | Still , though the English and the Germans sent hardly more than 10 per cent of their net demographic increase abroad , in absolute numbers this was a very large contingent . |
| 9 | Although some of the distinctive lexis of the London variety of Jamaican Creole may have its origins in Rasta speech , there is no clear evidence that Rastafarian influence on the structure of the Creole goes any further than that . |
| 10 | Titian has written over their heads Ex Praeterito Praesens Prudenter Agit Ni Futura Actione Deturpit ( ‘ From the [ example of ] the past the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future ’ ) . |
| 11 | The TV afternoons and the hours went so slow until he came back and turned the lights on . |
| 12 | In a way , he was glad when the doorbell rang commandingly just as he had got the eggs in the pan . |
| 13 | And how many times , on re-entering occupied space , did the phenomena depart as suddenly as they came ? |
| 14 | The bombs stopped as suddenly as they started but the hollow screams of anti-aircraft shells continued without pause . |
| 15 | The storm intruded once more as Pearce and Duvall exited . |
| 16 | The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle . |
| 17 | During their three hours off duty that night the pennies disappeared more quickly than the queue , but Tommy somehow continued to get better value for money than any other recruit . |
| 18 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 19 | Keep a little box of french chalk or talc handy to keep your hands ‘ lubricated ’ so that the skin slides as easily as possible over the handles , and so reduces the likelihood of friction . |
| 20 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 21 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 22 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 23 | A Section was camped in a knoll at the end of a spur near Nasuta and they built an observation point which was approached by a crawl through thickets before climbing a tree to a branch chair — the comfort of its armrests had more to do with the watcher keeping absolutely still than with his ease . |
| 24 | For really large systems this will have the consequence that the only paths which contribute significantly to the final result will be those in a region where the action changes as slowly as possible , since here the cancellations are minimised . |
| 25 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 26 | The crisis of confidence in the future went far deeper than the economic agonies of a restricted prosperity in society 's upper ranks . |
| 27 | She raked and kept the gravel sweep as meticulously as she kept her house — a convenient house , its well of water only a field distant . |
| 28 | It transpired that the snow went as quickly as it had come , the road was opened and supplies began getting through regularly again . |
| 29 | The copula occurs as frequently as twelve times ( out of sixty-five main verbs ) , and other categories of verb which are prominent include those denoting attitudes ( hesitated , liked , treating , etc ) , cognitions ( known , supposed , reflected , etc ) , speech acts ( speak , repeated , address , invited , etc ) , and perceptions ( hear , looked , appear , etc ) . |
| 30 | And indeed the anthropomorphism of the sociobiologists goes much further than that since they regularly employ a language which derives directly from the ideology of twentieth-century capitalism : investment , costs , benefits are central elements in their vocabulary . |