Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it , a group of star economists , including Sir Alan Walters , Mrs Thatcher 's personal adviser , showed how , in any stream of traffic , every additional vehicle slows down those already there — and that the slower the speed of the traffic stream being joined , the greater the hindrance caused by every joining vehicle . |
| 2 | Use of a highly similar construct for the second axis means that the resulting map represents only one rather than two dimensions of judgment . |
| 3 | Well , you 're sitting looking very smart here in a suit , which I suspect is made out of organic fibres and the tie , which I suspect is made out or artificial organic fibres , and the shirt looks remarkably artificial too . |
| 4 | Other vulnerable lakes endure episodes of acidity in which pH drops below 5.6 when a rainstorm or snowmelt flushes acid , sulphate or aluminium into the catchment . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Swinton has so much already , ’ Alexandra said , her voice almost steady , ‘ that he asked if you might have the basket for bringing me out here on Christmas night . ’ |
| 6 | The public spectacle of culture , the adoption of culture by the media , the standardisation of culture , the cultural discourse , cultural self-satisfaction , a slack cultural conformism , the recuperation of culture never has so much apparently been done for culture , never have the results ( another word that deserves some elaboration ) been so disappointing . |
| 7 | My toilet looks much nicer now . |
| 8 | That 's why it looks so awful down there . |
| 9 | Its linear diameter is I 392 000 km ; it looks so small only because it is at a distance of nearly 150 million km from us . |
| 10 | It looks so sad there , all cold and lonely , that I hold my hand out to sort of stroke it , but it flies off . |
| 11 | well I do n't think it matters so much in with the |
| 12 | Labour does not have a clear policy on whether it believes in a second and tolled crossing , or wants just one very congested bridge — which would be very bad news for Wales . |
| 13 | He looks more confident now than I 've ever seen him . |
| 14 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 15 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 16 | And here 's to my wife who looks more stunning tonight than ever before . ’ |
| 17 | He looks more relaxed now on stage than he did in his cheek-busting days in Head to Head , but can still make a sax cry when he wants . |
| 18 | ‘ Damn it , Grimm looks positively snug now . |
| 19 | The also the big rotary blades on 'em are throwing all the grass over the pavement and all over the road and eventually finishes up all down the drains . |
| 20 | He has about sixty here . |
| 21 | I know some of the sport starts about ten o'clock on Sundays . |
| 22 | ‘ generally speaking a prosecutor has as much right as a defendant to demand a verdict of a jury on an outstanding indictment , and where either demands a verdict a judge has no jurisdiction to stand in the way of it . |
| 23 | However , we remind ourselves of the principles outlined earlier in this judgment and the observation of Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest in Connelly v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1964 ] A.C. 1254 , 1304 , that ‘ generally speaking a prosecutor has as much right as a defendant to demand a verdict of a jury on an outstanding indictment , and where either demands a verdict a judge has no jurisdiction to stand in the way of it . ’ |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Cannock and Burntwood ( Mr. Howarth ) has as much right as anyone else to ask a question on a matter of general interest to the whole House of Commons . |
| 25 | Your hair always looks really nice anyway . |
| 26 | You know he looks really evil though . |
| 27 | This is not a very palatable view : each of us likes to think that we are ‘ some-body special ’ — which is why each of us accepts intellectually that someday we must die but at a gut level believes that , in our own case , God , Fate or whatever will make an exception . |
| 28 | The afternoon blast starts around one o'clock , and is more frequent than in Greece . |
| 29 | ( The heap stands almost ceiling-high now ; demonic possession leaves little time for trips to the laundrette . ) |
| 30 | The systematic model of teaching illustrates how influential correctly used objectives can be on the whole teaching process from planning to assessment , and demonstrates the need for extreme care in choosing them . |