Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibilities of choice are rather less in the most obviously vocationally oriented degrees , such as Architecture , Housing Studies and Nursing Studies , but some freedom of action is still possible . |
| 2 | Experience alone most certainly did not secure an officer advancement in the customs administration and political interest was essential , as a letter received by Lord Panmure in 1739 made clear . |
| 3 | So successfully indeed did the Bishops of Saintes oppose the claims of their rival that it was not until the seventeenth century that La Rochelle was allowed to have a cathedral of its own . |
| 4 | He would have withered inside long ago had there not been this to return to . |
| 5 | In winter all white , except for black tail , distinguished from slightly smaller Ptarmigan by stouter bill , toes much less heavily feathered , and in males by no black patch between bill and eye . |
| 6 | In radio broadcasting a small number of sonic entities suffice for the expression of all artistic thoughts ; the gramophone and the various mechanical instruments are evolving such clear sonorities that one will be able to write much less heavily instrumented pieces for them . |
| 7 | I will become much less easily tired … much less easily fatigued … much less easily discouraged … much less easily depressed . |
| 8 | Intermediate between Common and Green Sandpipers , differing from both in voice and in legs projecting beyond tail in flight , from Common in its white rump and different flight pattern , and from Green in its much less strongly contrasted dark and light appearance , greyish underwing and barred tall . |
| 9 | And how would such an affixation cope with the evident fact that the techniques , modes of expression and performers claimed by the counterculture as their own were apparently so easily appropriated by the established music industry interests , and the music spread into every social corner and function ? |
| 10 | So much good did it do them to take him up to that heathen place in Naas . |
| 11 | Not only had her real mother rejected her at birth and given her away , but worst of all , her adoptive father whom she had loved so much now turned out to be her real father , a cheat and a deceiver . |
| 12 | Halfway along improbably named Foxglove Road , where darkness seemed a mercy and nobody , felt Harry , deserved to live , Zohra Labrooy turned a key in a wobbly lock and welcomed Harry to her home . |
| 13 | A dream I had not so long ago took me back to my first year in Vienna . |
| 14 | Shifting from a position of criticism of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , public opinion has swung to the other extreme , of hero worship of Saddam Hussein , not so long ago viewed as an ally of India rather than of Pakistan . |
| 15 | Yet how could she possibly feel jealous over a man whom she had so long ago evicted from her heart ? |
| 16 | In that collapse , the European Social Democratic parties , which had for so long bravely vowed to prevent war between their respective States , lined up with the belligerents ; the second International collapsed , another casualty of the trenches of northern France . |
| 17 | The wind we had waited for so long quickly rose to gale force , and drove us on a desperate roller-coaster ride for five days and nights . |
| 18 | Only much later did it occur to her that this was her failure : academically self-sufficient and wholly self-centred she saw their sullenness and ignorance as their concern and their fault . |
| 19 | Only much later did riot police intervene to disperse the protesters . |
| 20 | Apparently not only had I collapsed on stage last night , but I was having intravenous chemotherapy between shows , sobbing and grimacing in agony in my dressing room . |
| 21 | Hall appeared with a letter from the Duke , who perhaps not unexpectedly said that he had some ‘ pressing business in Scotland ’ and , therefore , regretfully had to resign his duties , 2 although Burn later said that this was due to the death of the Duke 's uncle . |
| 22 | So so not only did you read it you heard about it . |
| 23 | So not only did I ea spread one side with peanut butter , I turned it over |
| 24 | To race ride again so soon afterwards seemed a mite quick , however . |
| 25 | Only just fucking got here ! |
| 26 | Other lesser communist leaders , with whom in the privacy of his own thought Ceauşescu perhaps more modestly compared himself , had done even worse . |
| 27 | If the very young , and sometimes the educationally very backward , are taught , or perhaps more accurately indoctrinated , with the idea that there is a ‘ god ’ who approves the teaching , who is caring for them , and who will provide for their needs , they will believe this , even when a state of intense deprivation confutes this every day of their lives . |
| 28 | They had continued to write , frequently at first , then more and more seldom , and only once more had he heard from him , by chance , after long years : married , a father , in a high judicial position . |
| 29 | Hazel had eaten various roots in his life , but only once before had he tasted carrot , when a cart-horse had spilt a nose-bag near the home warren . |
| 30 | There are miniatures , sultan tents , a harem carriage , a throne , jewelled items , agate drinking cups , Iznik pottery , caftans , swords and the emerald-encrusted Topkapi dagger , which has only once before left the palace . |