Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Rainbow would prefer right now this minute , but plays it cool .
2 I ca n't stress highly enough that , because of the heat build up , a fan should always be fitted to this type of setup .
3 We can not stress enough how much the grant from the Sports Council depends on the present 3000+ members being increased .
4 But world markets can absorb only so much coffee , copper and cotton , or for that matter T-shirts , motor-bikes and transistors .
5 We will know somewhere how much we need definitely
6 Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men .
7 When he announces his side tonight following training , it is safe to assume that McGrath will include perhaps as many as thirteen of the players who won the All That 's the kind of experience they will take into the match — and perhaps may yet parade in the Ulster final .
8 If only his head did not ache so badly that thought seemed driven out by the throbbing .
9 And much much much much rather feed you brandy with my mouth which has n't done so much smiling since I was knee-high to a grasshopper and did n't know just how much fun this life could be .
10 You will know just how much money can be made on the stock market .
11 That money is pure commission , Nick , a mere ten per cent of the value of the cocaine that was stored on their island while it awaited transportation to the good old US of A ; and neither you , nor I , nor even the dickheads in the Drug Enforcement Administration will ever know just how much money was not put in the bank , but stored in paper bags under the bed . ’
12 We do not know just how much cohesion is necessary for a society to exist , but we know that some cohesion is necessary .
13 Certainly no one should ever know just how much distress he could cause her .
14 ‘ If I did n't know just how much you like your job I might actually think you were looking for an escape from it . ’
15 All that was left to her now was to not let him know just how much he had hurt her .
16 Nobody will ever know just how much of the oceans he had covered when he fell victim to the Spanish longliners , 3600 miles from Cork .
17 Here again , however , difficult practical problems may be encountered , since we do not know exactly how many dies a coin die could make .
18 Does she know exactly how many ‘ mixed ’ marriages there are in a city like Liverpool ?
19 We do not know exactly how many of those who re-applied were supporting children , who are mentioned only occasionally in the sources .
20 This simple fact can not be overstressed and it accounts , in part , for the continuing lack of precise data on the numbers of physically handicapped in Britain : we do not know exactly how many people are physically disabled because they are not a clear homogeneous group that can be counted .
21 Nobody will ever know exactly how many millions of young men and women were taken as slaves to the Americas during those terrible four hundred years .
22 The death toll was initially reported at around 250 , but later officially estimated at around 70 people , many of them poor Surinamese immigrants believed to be living illegally in the Netherlands ; a senior Netherlands police official was quoted on Oct. 13 as saying , however , that " we will never know exactly how many people were killed , and we will never know exactly who they were " .
23 ‘ We may never know exactly how many were on the ferry , ’ US Coast Guard Petty Officer Joe Dye said yesterday in Miami .
24 erm you can hybridize these two , you can second generations , backcrosses and so on , the analysis has been made , and we know that there is n't a single large gene producing that effect — we know that there are quite a number of genes of reasonably small effect , we do n't know exactly how many but certainly it does n't look like a hopeful monster .
25 Well I think what we 'll do is one day we 'll weigh the amount of spaghetti and then we 'll know exactly how much to put in next time wo n't we ?
26 I must know exactly how those are connected in which order .
27 The presence of three commas in the second line help demonstrate just how little life there is by breaking up the sentence .
28 We had to , obviously , but the Poll Tax is now all on this modern technology and it does n't need nearly as many staff , and Phyllis will remember in her budget that they did put savings in the Treasurer 's Department for that very reason .
29 Indeed , an old person living alone may need nearly as much physical care as those in shared households and this may require quite a high level of family organisation and planning , in which a woman is usually at the centre .
30 At the annual meeting in March Mr Saatchi warned that profits would fall this year ( although nobody expected they would fall nearly as much as they have done ) and there would be disposals .
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