Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 2 | The upsurgence of the motor car was forcibly rammed home when the cross-country holiday route , the Midland & Great Northern Joint line from Peterborough across Norfolk to Great Yarmouth Beach station was shut on 28 February 1959 . |
| 3 | Use of naturalistic information is wholly disallowed only if there can be some settlable choice of cognitive methods where all of our naturalistic information is available only if we resolve the choice in one of the possible ways . |
| 4 | The observers that took part in the raid do not in any way represent the residents of this estate and are widely regarded here as being little better than police stooges . |
| 5 | Beyond this , character- ization rarely goes further than the creation of characters sufficient for the roles they play within the fabliau ; there is very rarely the slightest pretence at verisimilitude in the form of feigning that the characters have experiences beyond or after those of the narrative given . |
| 6 | Mr Norrie rarely goes out because he seldom feels well . |
| 7 | Yes , of course , that 's a very startling example of a drug which was n't properly checked through before it was used on a mass basis . |
| 8 | Let her play with a sponge and see how it fills with water , which slowly drains away once she lifts it up . |
| 9 | ‘ I think I 'd rather stay here because it 's fixed now , but I do n't really like comprehensive schools that much . |
| 10 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 11 | Age , education , ideology , even strength of partisanship , had little influence over whether or not people perceived bias on television or in their papers . |
| 12 | The distinction between the meaning of the word ‘ agent ’ in the common law sense of ‘ special agent ’ and its meaning in what for the want of a better expression I will call its ‘ equitable sense ’ was not expressly pointed out until the judgment of the court was delivered by Slade L.J . |
| 13 | Twenty yards away , through the storm , I glimpsed his figure , furiously lashing away as though his last fishing moment had come . |
| 14 | He states that one rarely needs more than one granule although two or three can obviously be used if a stronger solution is required . |
| 15 | Slowly press vertically until the arms are straight . |
| 16 | Slowly press upwards until your arms are straight overhead , then lower gradually to the top of the chest again . |
| 17 | Slowly press out until your arms are straightened again and your palms are facing down as before . |
| 18 | It was , however , through this sister that she eventually found out where her daughter was . |
| 19 | Today the church is no longer ‘ active ’ in the village as it once was , and sadly the congregation rarely has more than 15 worshippers . |
| 20 | Team spirit rarely mattered much since dealers were paid commission on their own business and preferred to develop their own methods of achieving this . |
| 21 | When cutting off the nozzle of a new bottle of pva glue , the contents will eventually dry out unless the hole is sealed again . |
| 22 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 23 | I used to fish there with some friends several years ago and we rarely caught less than 100lbs in a session . |
| 24 | Her privately published Photographs of British Algae : Cyanotype Impressions was issued regularly in parts between October 1843 and September 1853 , eventually incorporating more than 400 photographic plates , and was distributed to scientific friends and institutions . |
| 25 | The answer put by proponents of the British approach is that the effect of publications or performances is rarely to incite directly whether to crime or anything else . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the bipartite system remained in place and would be fundamentally modified only if a powerful political will to do so could be mobilized . |
| 27 | If that 's the way you think , then I 'd rather know now than later . ’ |
| 28 | They rarely ventured more than ankle deep into the inlet . |
| 29 | On the one hand , various syntactic rules seem to be properly constrained only if one refers to pragmatic conditions ; and similarly for matters of stress and intonation . |
| 30 | Brazil 's component exports increased rapidly in the late 1980s , only to fall sharply as buyers shifted their purchases to other developing countries in 1990 when the Cruzado became overvalued ( Karmokolias , 1990 ) . |