Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 2 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 3 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 4 | Similarly , the halt and lame , vividly portrayed in Les invalides in book 2 of the same collection ( 1716–17 ) , are surely destined to proceed slowly rather than at the ‘ fast triple time ’ suggested by Geoffrey Chew in the article ‘ Notation ’ ( 111 , 4 ) in New Grove , where the opening bars of this piece are reproduced in facsimile ( xiii , p.376 ) . |
| 5 | Two tall young men in finely cut gallibayas and white scarves asked rather formally if they might walk with us , then lapsed into shy silence . |
| 6 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |
| 7 | What is often dismissed rather contemptuously as baggy trousers and tunic by English people exists in fact in a variety of styles . |
| 8 | Dr Roy Brown estimates that 12,000 hectares of moorland in the North York Moors National Park is not grazed intensively enough because farmers are reducing sheep flocks . |
| 9 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 10 | The Stealer loped slowly away as though injured , dodging from one steel column to the next . |
| 11 | Oh no no no I 'd had this hidden somewhere else before you see . |
| 12 | Garland , however , seems to go rather further than this in suggesting that , in Britain at least , the emergent prison system never really embodied a ‘ reformative ’ alternative to classicism and neoclassicism at all . |
| 13 | Parapets gradually grew lower and lower until the trench became little deeper than a roadside ditch . |
| 14 | Others agreed with the idea of a sanctuary , but suggested that it should be situated somewhere else where there would be no conflicts with recreational fishing , prompting Steve Dawson to draw the analogy of ‘ putting a plaster on your bum to treat a boil on your forehead . ’ |
| 15 | In her view , women in rock fought against male supremacy and got little further than choosing their earrings , with the moneymen conspiring to craft an image suitable for their market . |
| 16 | How many people think this project ought to be stopped right now before it goes any further ? ’ |
| 17 | Agronomic techniques were developed rather later than mechanical ones , following the identification of the importance of rainsplash as a major element in the erosion process . |
| 18 | Different rates of use are expected of ‘ serious , and ‘ recreational ’ fiction — and within these groupings certain types of works ( e.g. Bulgarian novels in translation ) must be expected to issue less frequently than others ( e.g. novels by Graham Greene ) . |
| 19 | I am very reluctant to go so far when we — or rather you — could be so near a better resolution . |
| 20 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 21 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 22 | But though none might be prepared to go so far as that , all British parties would quickly realize that apparent discrimination against women in their lists would do them a lot of harm . |
| 23 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 24 | Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue . |
| 25 | Indeed , even without having to go so far as the Commission of the European Communities did at the hearing in arguing that registration itself already constitutes a form of establishment , it must be observed that in any event registration is a precondition for taking up and pursuing activities in the fisheries sector . |
| 26 | You might , for instance have to alter the way the murder you had in mind is committed or you might have to go so far as to alter the motive of the murderer or even find a completely different person to commit the central action . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't like to go so far as to predict anything for Sunday but you can be certain I am far more confident about the race now than I was . |
| 28 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 29 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 30 | Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership . |