Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral : never start a big warren system other than at the beginning of the day 's work , since you need to complete it if at all possible rather than have to extend the work into another day . |
| 2 | It is possible that this has contributed to the risk of the glider zooming too high just after take off . |
| 3 | It already makes black and white displays in the US , but demand for notebook personal computers with colour displays is growing , and Sharp says it would rather make these locally than export them from Japan , where they are still subject to perverse US anti-dumping duties . |
| 4 | Perhaps that was why Father Devlin had volunteered to act as match-maker , preferring to have him married rather than have him fornicate , as he had in the past , with the tinker women passing through the district . |
| 5 | A women quoted in Ethel Elderton 's 1914 study declared that she 'd ‘ rather swallow the druggist 's shop and the man i n't than have another kid ’ . |
| 6 | She gave him a gracious little nod , determined to die first rather than do any such thing . |
| 7 | I have as much scepticism as the next person about new techniques for analysing so-called discourse communities which seem to do little else than parse the text of student e-mail with an home-grown SNOBOL program . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , I have n't got to do anything by two o'clock except get Liam out . |
| 9 | In the A sections , the tune is more subtly transformed : the basic melodic shapes are still there , for listeners familiar with the original , but they are ‘ glossed ’ , ‘ paraphrased ’ , by changing a few notes here , a few notes there ; the repetitions of the original all but disappear . |