Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a 50 p.c. increase in mortgage offers last time we cut our rates — in December — but that levelled off because of uncertainty about the election . |
| 2 | Once Chapman had gone there was no one with his dynamism and far-sightedness to carry on where he left off . |
| 3 | In the shire districts , the spectacular advances which enabled Labour to claim more than 50% of the vote in many authorities lend a further twist to the puzzle of why the party has not been able to match consistently good local results in these areas with comparable general election support . |
| 4 | But the Public Order Act of 1986 goes further than either Lord Scarman or Sir Robert Mark had envisaged by giving new powers to the police to impose conditions on public assemblies as well as on processions . |
| 5 | In the long run it may be possible to go further than this , to appropriate in the form of tax revenue a large part of the income which workers would otherwise have put into long-term savings schemes , and to expand commensurately the socialised provision for retired workers ( state pensions plus appropriate social amenities ) . |
| 6 | In the library context it should be possible to go further than the catalogue to establish relevance , i.e. , to go beyond the question put to the catalogue and include the user 's relevance judgements after examining the actual documents on the shelves . |
| 7 | Most of the grass had already been worn away by cheering trampling spectators but it was still pleasant to sit there when it caught the sun . |
| 8 | But I mean if that goes if that goes through if that falls through somebody might be interested and and somebody might erm I du n no . |
| 9 | that goes off when we |
| 10 | ‘ Depardieu junior made more than 15 trips to Holland recently , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 11 | On agriculturally unimproved moorlands it is not easy to exceed the maximum stocking density ( 6 sheep/hectare ) for HLCAs because it is often not possible to support more than 2 per hectare . |
| 12 | According to the development officers ' monthly reports to their supervisor the distribution of their work could be broken down into roughly three or four elements ( though the amount of time spent on each changed somewhat as the project progressed ) . |
| 13 | Margaret Thatcher and Ruby Wax tie for bottom place ; neither musters more than 1% support as sex objects . |
| 14 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |
| 15 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 16 | Neither side should be afraid to instruct more than one doctor when the plaintiff suffers multiple injuries giving rise to a variety of symptoms . |
| 17 | Some communicate better than others . |
| 18 | We need to leave them some to swim in before we catch them . |
| 19 | In addition the external examiners review and comment on examination papers , moderate coursework where this constitutes more than 50 per cent of the assessment of a module , review other coursework if necessary , viva students if required , recommend awards , write annual reports and advise staff on the delivery of the course . |
| 20 | To herself she had to admit that she would have been willing to go further than talk . |
| 21 | A complex negotiation was made between the Davids Price and Tallichet for aircraft and services , the result in Spitfire terms would be that Tallichet would receive TP298 in flying trim and SM845 was free to float away if appropriate . |
| 22 | And I 'm sure you 've had a bit of thought about it , I 'm glad you 're see it there er and the whole lot is a blessed mismatch , it 's nothing to do with us though I do thank you Mr for the help you wish to give me , the Duke of Westminster and the Duke of Rutland if this goes through as I said this today because without a doubt the government will listen to what you have to say and I 've no doubt it will be effect . |
| 23 | The keepers still have to cull their set numbers of hinds and this goes on until it 's done — often well into the new year . |
| 24 | This goes on until all the players are in the same place . |
| 25 | The head is made , erm , the tail , all the bits are made and eventually they , they all stick together like a kind of Lego , and the result is a new bacteria is made and this goes on until eventually the cell , there are so many inside the cell , that erm the cell just ruptures , when there 're about two hundred or so , the cell is now bulging with T four bacteria , it ruptures and releases a whole blob of new ones to start the cycle all over again . |
| 26 | There are on average some 150 days a year when rain falls , and this goes up as you move inland into the Basque country proper , whose climate gets a little more extreme as the land rises . |
| 27 | So what I 'm , what I propose , is that this goes out because I do n't think it changes anything significantly . |
| 28 | You may not need to yet but it 'll be easier to plan now than when you 're under pressure . |
| 29 | As has consistently been the case , Paisley and other DUP politicians were prepared to go further than the Official Unionists and the provincial leadership of the Orange Order . |
| 30 | Pollitt , at the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern , was prepared to go further than the ILP . |