Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No no but it goes somewhere near half way I mean |
| 2 | It offers so very much to the young people who go there and also has a lot to offer adults . |
| 3 | Goran 's two tournaments wins so far this year prove that he 's more than just a serving machine . |
| 4 | Surprisingly , LA has only about half the police force of London for a city of ten million . |
| 5 | Once Univel softens up the marketplace and the marketplace protests that it has only so much money and ca n't possibly buy both NetWare and UnixWare , poof , Univel is integrated back into Novell . |
| 6 | That range covers only about half of those organisations included in this survey . |
| 7 | A football match could be watched by a lot of people , especially if it is televised , without reducing the quantity consumed by any individual ; but exclusion is possible — the ground holds only so many , and the club can refuse to allow the game to be televised . |
| 8 | That this began to happen only after 1760 and to be anywhere near completion only after 1790 has perhaps rather less to do with the availability of investment funds , or the level of engineering knowledge , than with the overall pace of industrialisation , urbanisation and demographic increase . |
| 9 | It 's different hiring people here too : everybody has a contract that specifies exactly how many hours they have to work , length of vacations everything ’ . |
| 10 | A venture like that needs just as much planning , evaluation , preparation and practice as the international championship . |
| 11 | Having a meal out , especially if you eat out a lot , needs just as much care and good sense as planning a meal in . |
| 12 | But Prokofiev 's opera owes just as much of its enthralling power to the brilliance of its orchestral writing , and in Edward Downes it has a superlative master of the composer 's idiomatic style . |
| 13 | ( The USSR , with one-tenth as many motor vehicles as the United States , has just as many traffic fatalities ) . |
| 14 | However , every state has just as many parents as children , so searching backwards wo n't help . |
| 15 | The nice beer-bellied English gentleman with the Union Jack T-shirt and shorts , a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other , has just as much right to be there as you do . |
| 16 | Now such a meal , as any dietician will tell you , is far too rich in nitrogenous substances , since fish has just as much assimilable albumen as meat , and contains a great deal more phosphorus … " |
| 17 | It matters just as much to a person 's education what he learns and is taught as it matters to his salvation what he believes . |
| 18 | This lane once known as Lord 's Cross Lane , has like so much of Halling disappeared into the chalk quarries . |
| 19 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 20 | Austin is a good deal smaller than Edinburgh , but has about as much motorway as the UK . |
| 21 | Nor would it be a significant gesture towards Britain 's 2.5 million Moslem inhabitants , as he suggests , because those Moslems mostly come from the Indian sub-continent , and the Khalili collection has about as much connection with their material culture as a collection of French medieval art has with Czech baroque art . |
| 22 | Yet his own researchers have confirmed that the ‘ British ’ tag on food has about as much impact now as ‘ made in Hong Kong ’ might have had on other commodities a couple of decades ago . |
| 23 | They realise that a servant has often very little choice in the matter . |
| 24 | The interior is simple and has now hardly any painting or mosaic except on the floor . |
| 25 | Every appointment seems to be an outrageous shot in the dark , either because the person appointed has no experience , or because he has far too much experience , having been fired from 43 other clubs ( three times from QPR ) . |
| 26 | Anyhow , I think that Hatherby woman has far too much influence on Constance . ’ |
| 27 | It has far too much legislation and far too much centralisation . |
| 28 | I have got past that stage many , many years ago , and I believe that a foreigner has equally as much right to live in the world as a Britisher . |
| 29 | In such a context , therefore , it comes as less of a surprise to find Sidney Webb actually advocating a cut in the wages of working youths — in evidence before the 1909 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , of all places — so that ‘ the youth , who now has even too much pocket-money , and gets , therefore , too soon independent of home , and too easily led into evil courses ’ could be brought down a peg or two . |
| 30 | this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support . |