Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , audit committees function most effectively when their members understand clearly the financial reporting process , the types of issue that can affect that process , and the relationships between management , auditors and regulators . |
| 2 | In the air at around 3,500 feet I found that , provided one held it with the antenna close to horizontal , the ICOM IC-A20 MkII could produce quite accurate VOR indications at distances of well over 25 nm from the VOR — rather better than my own King KX99 does . |
| 3 | Well it 's all right because my daughter 's got one her music cassette thing whatever . |
| 4 | All right until their number comes up as it were . |
| 5 | Everything was perfectly all right until your mother came along . " |
| 6 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 7 | Woosnam has been thinking of changing to a ‘ cack-handed ’ grip on the greens left hand below right because his putting has been so poor in recent weeks . |
| 8 | She moped so badly after your father died . ’ |
| 9 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 10 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 11 | ‘ Since you left the restaurant that night asking so pointedly when his war was going to begin . ’ |
| 12 | This is especially so when your goods have been changed into or mixed with something else or when your customer or your goods or both have disappeared . |
| 13 | Legal issues , like other technical problems , can only be properly understood within their broader social context , and this is especially so when our purpose is not only to understand the world , but to change it . ’ |
| 14 | This would be especially so if his partner was one of his several sons . |
| 15 | Many after all had served in households not much better than their own , for servant-keeping reached well down the social scale . |
| 16 | ‘ For 20 years the Childrens ’ Hearing system has progressed very positively and we are doing much better than our brethren south of the Border in looking after the interests of children in Scotland . ’ |
| 17 | But now that I have I can sense him as a personality much better than his biscuit-rich brother . |
| 18 | Actually Pickerage and I have a relationship that goes much deeper than your grubby little mind could encompass , Quigly . ’ |
| 19 | I do understand that the burden of an elderly , dependent relative , even of one so sprightly as your mother , can be great . |
| 20 | In the transmission of ability , we assume that there is ‘ regression towards the mean ’ : children of above-average parents have abilities that are above average , but less so than their parents . |
| 21 | Armstrong 's patrician Oxbridge performance was not very successful in the brash atmosphere of the Australian courts — significantly less so than his performances before House of Commons committees . |
| 22 | It is usual to grow on the cuttings for a year so that the stock stems become somewhat thicker than a pencil but rather less so than your little finger . |
| 23 | Sure to be a scream : America 's most famous fiends , The Addams Family , are coming to the monster screen , Anjelica Huston is perfectly cast as the deliciously decadent Morticia , and Raul Julia no less so as her ghoulish soul mate Gomez . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't seem so long since his birthdee , do it ? ’ |
| 25 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 26 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 27 | Moreover , we showed , in a small study , that non-conservers of length will say that a one-inch and a ten-inch stick are the same length so long as their tips are on a level . |
| 28 | This is not the case in non- autistic mentally handicapped children , who do well on false belief tasks so long as their mental age , by other criteria , is above three years . |
| 29 | From the outset , no individual or couple will lose more than £3 a week from the changeover so long as their local council spends according to government assumptions . |
| 30 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |