Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
| 2 | Shafts of piercing sunlight slowly push their curious fingers through the dusty waters as far down as they will go . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , no ? ’ he drawled mockingly as he slowly lowered his dark head towards her . |
| 4 | Damian Flint slowly lowered his dark head . |
| 5 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 6 | But win Norwich did and they have since gone on to preserve their First Division lives and reach the FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 7 | Denmark and Holland usually back Britain when it champions free-market causes ; yet , like Britain , they want the common agricultural policy to go on subsidising their large farms . |
| 8 | Alresford 's recently formed rugby club , who have successfully completed their inaugural season using facilities at Perin 's School , have asked the parish council to consider creating a rugby pitch at Arlebury Park . |
| 9 | ‘ The middle , ’ Reyce continues , ‘ although enjoying much meddow and pasture , yett far more tillage doe from thence raise their cheifest maintenance . ’ |
| 10 | As the supreme or sovereign power within its own boundaries the state can not have rivals which successfully deny its law-making powers or its claims on the ultimate allegiance of its citizens . |
| 11 | The University has committed substantial additional resources for IT in 1993–4 in order effectively to implement its long-term strategic plans for IT . |
| 12 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |
| 13 | Gedge glibly announced : ‘ We 're The Wedding Present , from Leeds , ’ and they then crashed into ‘ ( The Moment Before ) Everything 's Spoiled Again ’ , ‘ White ’ , ‘ Pretty Blue High ’ , ‘ Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room ’ and the song that eventually became their first single , ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ . |
| 14 | As well as setting up a register the Act will eventually make it illegal for people to handle food until they have taken a basic food hygiene certificate . |
| 15 | This will eventually make it possible to manipulate ecology so as to test the dependence of social structure upon it . |
| 16 | Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions . |
| 17 | If you wished to borrow such things you instinctively made it clear that you intended no blasphemy . |
| 18 | The music by Dominic Muldowney is no more than pleasant , but it effectively fulfils its main purpose , which is to keep at bay recollections of Lerner and Loewe . |
| 19 | The LDP 's share of the vote fell by more than 3 per cent compared with the 1986 lower house elections , and the party won 20 seats fewer than it had possessed at the dissolution ( although 11 independents were later reported to have joined , thereby bringing its total strength to 286 ) . |
| 20 | Like a grow-bag , however , they can not go on producing their rich harvests of vegetable crops such as celery and carrots for ever , since once the peat has all wasted away , poor acid subsoils , especially clays , are often all that remain beneath . |
| 21 | Boon duly got it next day and took his average to a Bradmanesque 86 . |
| 22 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |
| 23 | The belt tying the skirt on drew the bodice edges in round the breasts ( if they were to be exposed ) and presumably lent them some support from the sides and from below . |
| 24 | Taff carried on eating his large piece of lamb . |
| 25 | A related question is whether each processor should execute its own programme , or if instructions from one programme should be broadcast to all processors , thereby allowing them all to execute the same programme with different data . |
| 26 | In 1987 , Tyacke vigorously restated his original position in his book Anti-Calvinists : The rise of English Arminianism c. 1590 1640 , only to be turned on once more by his critics . |
| 27 | To date almost 100 graduates have participated in the GEP and the majority have gone on to successfully launch their own businesses . |
| 28 | He eventually realised his only chance of survival was to make his own way down the peak . |
| 29 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 30 | The noise of a lock operating somewhere made them both look along the companionway . |