Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble .
2 But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once .
3 They are so widely prescribed you may have taken them yourself .
4 If this intercommunication is not properly arranged there will be the familiar symptoms of frustrating reiteration , decisions being misunderstood or being constantly revised , political manoeuvring and even concealment of progress within one or more of the teams .
5 However there are no signs of a foreign policy debate being forced at the moment and one rather doubts there will be unless something dramatic happens so one might say the assassin failed … ’
6 ‘ And the man who eventually wins you will be the luckiest man in the world , I think , ’ said Carlo .
7 RCA was initially keen to release ‘ Davni Chasy ’ from the Ukrainian LP but eventually agreed it would be a mistake for the band 's début single on a major label .
8 If properly used it could improve the quality of life by a considerable degree .
9 Her latest ally , Soviet Russia , was reeling under Hitler 's onslaught and it was widely expected she could not last out the year .
10 If you would rather wait I could come back later , but it is , of course , important to lose as little time as possible . ’
11 ‘ A tiny little place we could run ourselves , and have our own things with us , and where we could do what we liked .
12 Of course , if his tasks are badly designed they may well make unnecessary demands .
13 Oh he adores her , oh yes he wants her back , and I said , she said , I , you see , I know him , I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you know inside , know his ways and know how to cope with them , but I said never ever put yourself at his mercy , I 'm marrying him , and the house will be hers , you see , when there properly divorced it 'll be in her name so if he starts coming the old soldier , she can bung him out .
14 Pete was in her form at school and whenever she looked at him little quivers she could not identify started deep inside her .
15 Secondly , they could further extend their provision of a mixture of courses , both academic and vocational , at non-advanced and advanced levels , thereby becoming what might more accurately be termed Colleges of Further and Higher Education .
16 Then Wim went off and tagged IBM and when IBM and HP agreed to support a common position Sun eventually found it could n't resist , especially with Novell nudging it on .
17 They acknowledged that if emancipation were eventually to come it would require the moral progress and demographic increase consequent upon a conscious policy of a more equal sex ratio amongst slaves ; education and religious instruction ; the reorganisation of the work of the slaves to provide a progressive increase in the time devoted to autonomous labour from which earnings could be directed to self-purchase ; possibly too recognition of obligations to the former master even after the date of legal emancipation .
18 If I nearly close my eyes and carry on walking I can pretend I 'm blind .
19 Stephen had rather expected he would do that .
20 No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " .
21 It did n't take long to see it would be useless . ’
22 And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house .
23 If they 're wrongly placed they can blank out the screens and make them impossible to read .
24 Of course , the states with good measurements tend to be the ones that had suddenly realised they might run out of capacity , and taken action to avoid that .
25 He reached out and tugged her into the V of his thighs , dropping his mouth to hers and taking it in a kiss that left her gasping for breath and so shaken she could barely stand .
26 He suddenly realized she could have died , that something awful could have taken place after he passed out .
27 Ace suddenly realized he might have taken other damage .
28 Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves .
29 Bathing , for instance , had to be forbidden along the fashionable coastline ; some ecologists even suggested that Estonian drinking water was so polluted it could be set on fire !
30 They may be effective alone , but there needs to be caution with their introduction , especially enalapril which may cause hypotension when combined with other agents .
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