Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It is a contemporary tale of medical misfortune which paradoxically illustrates quite dramatically the remarkable achievements of modern medicine .
2 If the board is left unattended in the water it can drift away very quickly as the wind and waves catch it , whereas the rig only drifts very slowly .
3 The delight at the judgment which was ascribed to John Hegarty in the July issue of ACCOUNTANCY perhaps goes too far in suggesting that there is now mutual recognition of firms within the EC .
4 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
5 The full extension of the slide only goes as far down as C , but an ‘ E slide ’ gives the low B natural ; the B flat is taken as a ‘ pedal note ’ in the first position of the B flat instrument and the rest of the pedal notes are available down to E , the bottom open string of the string bass .
6 ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful .
7 But it only goes so far .
8 But performance alone has never yet ensured the job of a French nationalised industry chairman .
9 Japanese money alone has so far created 4 1/2 thousand new jobs .
10 This one point alone has almost certainly caused many novice flyers to struggle on with an unmanageable model which could easily be completely transformed by correct adjustment .
11 As far as government backbenchers are concerned , their instructions are to be present at these committees but it is hoped that they will be silent as each speech only adds that much longer to the proceedings .
12 One reason might be that androgyny typically envisages a unity ostensibly beyond sexual difference , but in fact inseparable from it ; androgyny especially has too often been a genderless transcendent which leaves sexual difference in place .
13 And however silly it might sound to take so slight a fragment of the story , the possibility of doing so says perhaps as much about the richness of the opera as it does about the interests of the listener .
14 It only happens usually once
15 It excludes the interpretation that the door shut of its own accord , and so leads more explicitly to the conclusion that the door was shut by the shopman .
16 But this merely confirms yet again that the idea of numerical diversity of ontological existents is inseparable from the idea of an objective order , and consequently that a clarification of the former idea depends upon a clarification of the sources and the conditions of intelligibility of such an order .
17 In the first movement the piano suddenly reaches high up in its register to remote regions , rather like Rachmaninov during the first movement of his Fourth Concerto .
18 The auctioneer was all smiles once more .
19 If the model only gets as far as being on its side and then starts to fall , apply opposite lateral cyclic to roll out and back stick to recover .
20 Perhaps their hippocampal cognitive mapping capacity is simply desperately starved of use in a lab , and so responds almost greedily to the novel inputs offered by neurophysiological stimulation of input paths .
21 Long waits almost over at hospital
22 Despite its unhurried style and careful attention to detail , the firm achieved 170 placements with eleven consultants in 1979 ; now , with thirteen consultants , the firm annually completes far more , but is not necessarily seeking to maximise its volume , and certainly not at the expense of quality of service .
23 The majority of the populace not only identifies more readily with the careerist-turned-nationalist , but finds its conscience better protected there too .
24 It does n't matter so much if the document is to be a one-off , although it obviously helps fairly significantly if the material can actually be read .
25 The buildings were made of plastic and glass on a plexiglass base , detailed at the front but merely silhouettes further back .
26 but you see that only lasts so long they , they perish
27 In particular , the programme , as it is set out , perhaps puts rather too much emphasis on ‘ knowledge-based systems ’ .
28 If a number of employees insist on cash payment , an employer can not simply scrap his old cash-payment system , and so gains far less from instituting bank payment than if he can simply switch to bank payment as the general rule .
29 Candida can convert to the hyphal form in infected areas of the skin or vagina , but it only does so partially — most of the Candida is still in the typical yeast form .
30 First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ?
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