Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers in this country are unaccustomed to operating in such a regulatory environment where the curriculum is concerned ; and local authorities have for the most part exerted little control over what is taught . |
| 2 | The fact that Mosley had lost his main propaganda outlet meant that the British public for the most part paid little or no attention to beliefs which appeared to derive from ideological sympathy with Italian fascism or more sinister reasons . |
| 3 | These respondents for the most part endorsed those parts of the official rhetoric ( see e.g. Royal College of General Practitioners 1977 ) which incorporate the roles of family doctor or counsellor and specialist in ordinary disease . |
| 4 | Managers , especially those in more senior positions , thus for the most part obtain such externally available information as they use informally . |
| 5 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 6 | Only Kensit attracts more votes than ‘ None of these ’ . |
| 7 | Eva 's knowledge of mathematics meant she could handle the budget at Usher with few problems — apart from the usual one of there never being enough money to do all that needed to be done . |
| 8 | So Chelsea had more reason than alliteration to fear a third successive failure to reach the third round . |
| 9 | ‘ Only cops carry these . ’ |
| 10 | So Penny rang those numbers to find out where it was and it was something to do with the council or something . |
| 11 | Only Icelanders pay more than tax-penalised Britons for Marlboro cigarettes and Bacardi rum . |
| 12 | Perhaps David knew some girl with a mother who 'd been persuaded to co-operate . |
| 13 | As well as Sunday 's League match , there is an Italian Cup tie the following Wednesday for Gazza to prove he 's in a good enough condition to make some contribution against Norway . |
| 14 | Perhaps Eve knew all the time , maybe she had been in the shop when Mother was buying all this … all this horrible stuff . |
| 15 | If so Frank has little to worry about I think . |
| 16 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 17 | Today only Russia exercises that right and operates a coal mine at Barentsburg , a few kilometres down the fiord from Longyearbyen , the main Norwegian coal-mining area which the Store Norsk Spitzbergen Kulkompani bought from John Longyear . |
| 18 | The IBM team spent 22 hours writing their letters , but the Germans take only milliseconds to create each trimer . |
| 19 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 20 | But only hindsight casts such a shadow . |
| 21 | You may also be shown how to guide his arm movements , if he has made a good enough recovery to practise these correctly . |
| 22 | ‘ Michael Gambon is a fine enough actor to convey that charisma while being utterly ruthless at the same time . ’ |
| 23 | Oh , right I N S T A N T it 's instant , =stant S T A N T L Y so Holly got that one wrong |
| 24 | Thus , if all the infinities in supergravity turn out to cancel each other out , we could have a theory that not only filly unifies all the matter particles and interactions , but that is complete in the sense that it does not have any undetermined renormalization parameters . |
| 25 | The European Commission is having a hard enough job getting all its members to clear out the same few channels so that Europe can have a paging system which could be used in any of its countries . |
| 26 | And it seems to me there is a grave danger that once established as open countryside and in an area in need of protection , it will be heavens only job to move that in future years . |
| 27 | So Cambridge elected another person . |
| 28 | With the help of sugarcraft specialists Woodnutts , we have put together kits containing all the accessories and food colourings required for completing our three cakes . |
| 29 | Joining Welch and Taylor was Lt Sanders who led a flight of four P–40s up through the clouds to attack six Japanese bombers , Sanders hit one aircraft while another of his men , Lt Sterling , closed on a two-seater , Sterling 's engine was hit and caught fire , but he carried on in pursuit , another Japanese closed in on his tail and the three flew on firing at each other , then Sanders joined in to attack the second Japanese , only Sanders survived this ordeal . |
| 30 | In effect , what The Times was saying was that it knew what the ‘ real ’ stories were and that only dictators prevented such stories from being told . |