Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several days of this treatment , Honey became less anxious and forgot her bad habits of rearing and crossing her jaws ; and she eventually became quite a pleasant horse to ride . |
| 2 | I must explain that I do not like combined heater stats ; in general I find that the heater part packs up within a year , as , regrettably do modern heaters , and I would rather throw away a £5 heater than a £10 plus heater stat . |
| 3 | A proposal that public money should be spent on a measure which is likely to aggravate this position ( the low birth rate ) by making contraception universally available on request and thereby to affect adversely the continuity of the state , is one which we feel we can not endorse . |
| 4 | But I am not too keen on performances which concentrate entirely on rhetorical expression , and thereby lose both the singing quality , and the logic of the ‘ long line ’ . |
| 5 | All highly commendable , but what about the thousands of humble seamen , greasers , stewards and stokers who bore the brunt of that battle to save civilisation , and have since received virtually no recognition ? |
| 6 | The outside-half thereby became only the second player , after Neil Bennett in the 1970s , to score 300 points in a season for Bedford . |
| 7 | The construction of the Suez Canal — which links the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea , thereby shortening considerably the shipping distance between Europe and the eastern continents — was commenced in 1859 , the same year as Charles Robert Darwin published his ‘ Origins of Species ’ which provoked a great deal of controversy . |
| 8 | First published ( under a different title ) in 1909 , it eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages . |
| 9 | Pulsatilla seemed to cover the case as it now presented and successfully treated both the anxiety and the palpitations . |
| 10 | the fostering of an impersonal approach to health and medical care , where the machine intrudes between the patient and the doctor , and may thereby affect deleteriously the development of caring personal relationships . |
| 11 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 12 | Their untrained but nervous eyes , and rumour , vastly exaggerated both the ferocity and size of the advancing army . |
| 13 | Sadly , the bar had closed and the staff had long since departed so the celebration pint of bitter had to be put on ice for another day . |
| 14 | Finally , the on/off switch , which thankfully has only the one task to perform . |
| 15 | This is especially true of those , often identified as burgi , which protected only a very small part of the settlement ( p. 35 below ) ; but even where larger areas were enclosed , most included only a fraction of the total , as for example at Catterick , Ilchester and Water Newton , where the inhabited extra-mural areas extended for considerable distances . |
| 16 | A century ago Norway had perhaps 20 cattle breeds but today it effectively has only the Norwegian Red . |
| 17 | When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design . |
| 18 | First , there is the prison itself , as a physical entity — apparently given only a very minor role in the classical model . |
| 19 | It has more than fulfilled its founding fathers ' two objectives : to rebuild the economy of a shattered Europe , and to bury the hatchet between France and Germany and so bind together the nations of Europe that they would never go to war again . |
| 20 | This obviously represents only a proportion of criminal activity in Britain since a number of crimes remain undetected and a number of offenders are not convicted . |
| 21 | The two main actors create a reflective , needy relationship together made all the more poignant by the airman 's total lack of English and Jones 's zilch German so that they communicate haltingly and stiltedly , mirroring the route of their hesitant trust . |
| 22 | On the other side of the coin you might find a child who is experiencing such difficulties in his learning that the first line of attack must be in , in terms of perhaps producing just an improvement of his base level of learning , so that the next step can be taken . |
| 23 | O'Neill 's minor reforms or , as Utley perceptively describes it , his ‘ government by gesture ’ i served only to politicize further the frustration of the Catholic population , without making it any more committed to the Northern Ireland state . |
| 24 | These convictions had become sufficiently general amongst antislavery reformers by the mid-1820s that local associations in , for example , Norwich , Beverley , Hull and Whitby all dismissed comprehensively the argument in Cobbett 's Register and Blackwood 's that labourers in Britain suffered worse material conditions than West Indian slaves . |
| 25 | Having to take children along imposes both a physical and mental burden ; there is the problem of managing children and shopping simultaneously , and the housewife 's attention is distracted by the need to pacify a crying child or by the knowledge that a baby in a pushchair is parked out of sight . |
| 26 | It was those two who invariably forgot to comply with Judith 's requests , while John and I usually showed up with the items , literally bringing home the bacon . |
| 27 | In any case , no head is powerful enough to carry effectively the sort of responsibility that the management of the National Curriculum , in the context of the rest of the Act , will bring . |
| 28 | We certainly , if you look at the breakdown of our sales er , we only sell about a hundred and fifty er , million pounds worth er , of goods and services in Asia , Pacific erm , we would certainly like to make acquisitions in that area just as we did in North America er , in the seventies and eighties and we have now small Pearson er , office , for instance in Tokyo , it 's quite slow , erm , er , in that area but certainly we 're on the lookout for acquisitions in , in Asia , Pacific . |
| 29 | I can only stress again the importance of using the higher figures . ’ |
| 30 | Maggie only stopped about an hour this morning , she 's not feeling well . |