Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's blast was seen less as a direct attempt on the police chief who has most vigorously pursued Colombia 's leading cocaine exporters , but as part of a campaign to terrorise non-combatants in the drug war into supporting negotiations and amnesty . |
| 2 | Yesterday 's blast was seen less as a direct attempt on the man who has most vigorously pursued Colombia 's chief cocaine exporters , but as part of a campaign to terrorise non-combatants in the drug war into supporting negotiations and amnesty . |
| 3 | The " marker " price of Brent crude , the most widely traded North Sea crude , was US$15.60 per barrel as of June 5 , compared with $17.50 on April 24 and $19.60 on Feb. 20 . |
| 4 | LC expressed levels of E-cadherin as high as those expressed by the most intensely stained KC . |
| 5 | The Salon , which had mostly only exhibited Berlin and German painters , put on exhibitions with an international character in 1891 and 1892 . |
| 6 | Bradshaw rather unwisely greeted McLean 's arrival in the ring by nutting him . |
| 7 | The direct kind includes most obviously bombing Serb targets in Bosnia . |
| 8 | Mozart 's 17 piano sonatas also show Haydn 's influence , but , like much of his music , works such as No 8 in A minor and No 14 in C minor betray a depth of emotion which only rarely invests Haydn 's music . |
| 9 | The gap has narrowed because the French have long since accepted EMS disciplines , and cheaper money ( as well as lower inflation ) is their prize . |
| 10 | Inside the hall there was no dissent but outside Mr Forsyth , long since dubbed Mrs Thatcher 's leading disciple in Scotland , knew a tempest was blowing up . |
| 11 | The electorate has long since rumbled Tony Benn , Eric Heffer , Dennis Skinner , Ken Livingstone and the rest . |
| 12 | I 'd much rather watch Ghostbusters and have a laugh . |
| 13 | But I would much rather find Mason puzzling than feel , as I do only too often , that I know all too well what so many of his more consistently praised contemporaries are on about , in music that routinely tells me nothing I did n't know already , or would indeed prefer never to hear again . |
| 14 | In the last resort , of course , he cares only about his ten per cent and he would , I 'm sure , much rather have Patience Strong than Christopher Logue on his books . |
| 15 | Apart from the reshuffled attack the rest of the side is the same as played so effectively to deny Donegal in the league final replay . |
| 16 | The starting-point , then , is the idea of identical men of very different environments and the hereditary reasons why English Rudolf Rassendyll so strikingly resembles Rudolf , King of Ruritania . |
| 17 | ‘ I was standing by the graveside and one of the Kavanagh sisters had said to Helen Moloney , Katherine 's sister : ‘ It 's perfectly all right to use Patrick 's grave . |
| 18 | Ulf , the bishop whose capabilities had so little impressed Bishop Ealdred , had disappeared from view and been replaced at Dorchester by a Saxon , Wulfwig , who was known to be on good terms with Leofric of Mercia . |
| 19 | It is , moreover , difficult to see how Rifat Efendi could so badly misread Mecdi , whom he virtually copies . |
| 20 | He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language . |
| 21 | Manager Howard Kendall ruled Cottee had committed the cardinal sin of having a go at team-mates , so in came Stuart Barlow . |
| 22 | So in came James — and he recovered from a jittery start to stamp his authority on an emphatic Liverpool win . |
| 23 | I went down to put the kettle on and while I was doing so in walked Albert . |
| 24 | There they collected the report and the tape recording — and Derek paused long enough to telephone Carol with a flimsy excuse for his absence . |
| 25 | A hostess in tight teeshirt and jeans lingers only long enough to assure Kate discreetly with her eyes that she is not poaching on her territory , smiles velvetly at Jeremy , brings them their drinks . |
| 26 | He had stayed awake long enough to remember Dante and Duncan and now he was asleep , the sun on his face and his hat on the grass beside him . |
| 27 | If he had lived long enough to see Henry crowned king at Westminster he would have been able to carry out his plan of leaving Anjou to his second son Geoffrey . |
| 28 | Long enough to explain Francis also . ’ |
| 29 | Motherwell took 27 minutes to create their first chance when Chris McCart carved out an opening for Joe McLeod , but the striker hesitated long enough to allow Brian Irvine to block the effort . |
| 30 | Leaning across to the fellows closest to him , he attracted their attention long enough to introduce Loretta . |