Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has anyone else noticed how , in the player interviews in the match programme , everyone so far has said without fail that the funniest player at Elland Road is our Jon . |
| 2 | Nothing so far has disproved the contention that the classical Greeks did not even know the name of the Jews . |
| 3 | ‘ Nobody down here seems to know that she died . |
| 4 | So is the formula for the famous cheese soufflé which so wonderfully conceals melting whole poached eggs , an old dish of French cookery and one served by Boulestin at a luncheon given at his restaurant to celebrate the publication by Cassells on 26 September 1936 , of the autobiography entitled Myself , My Two Countries . |
| 5 | Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses . |
| 6 | It is open to additional carriers that meet criteria set by AT&T , which is particularly keen to win support from some Europeans and is no doubt knocking hard on the door of Unisource BV , the joint venture between Sweden 's Televerket and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which so far has proved the most successful among such ventures — and already has loose links with both AT&T and Kokusai Denshin in Eastern Europe and points further east . |
| 7 | In the right circumstances , horses can also learn affection for a person — which not only makes training a horse so much easier , but makes riding and working the horse such a pleasure . |
| 8 | They will also try to inculcate you with a spurious respect for a ‘ culture ’ which not only fails to distinguish between what is good and what is profitable but which can not distinguish between substance and insubstantiality . |
| 9 | The concluding Fugue , for example , exhibits a clarity and lightness of texture which once again serves to negate the label of prolixity which for too long has been attached to Reger . |
| 10 | For example , ( 43 ) is matched by ( 45 ) , not ( 44 ) : ( 43 ) frogs croak ( 44 ) croak frogs ( 45 ) croaking frogs Adjectives in English are also distinguished from verbs by the separate peculiarity ( already implied ) that in assignment they must be accompanied by a form of be which carries tense , and which more importantly helps to mark the relation . |
| 11 | The 22-year-old Bath back-row forward 's astonishing winding road to glory has taken more twists than a roller-coaster , the most recent providing ample proof ‘ that somebody up there has decided I am going to make it ’ . |
| 12 | The timetable , which equally importantly includes finding the solution to Venice 's problem of flooding , was reconfirmed recently by Luigi Zanda , president of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova . |
| 13 | Such demands for cash will push up interest rates by ½%; or more , unless governments tighten up on spending — which almost inevitably means cutting back even more drastically on social services … |
| 14 | ‘ The rule as to unsoundness is that if at the time of sale , the horse has any disease which either actually does diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , so as to make him less capable of work of any description of which in its ordinary progress will diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , or if the horse has , either from disease or accident undergone any alterations of structure that either actually does at the time , or in its ordinary effects will , diminish the natural usefulness of the horse , such a horse is unsound . ’ |
| 15 | But you can be absolutely sure that , if that is the position of your business , somebody else somewhere has got your card marked as an easy number and is about to take you by surprise . |
| 16 | But by an expensive , slow and very laborious liming , composting and cover-cropping , he has established a natural cycle which no longer requires topping up with nutrients . |
| 17 | This removes a lot of work from the main processor which no longer has to bother with keyboard scanning , buffering , etc . |
| 18 | He believes that the deterrent effect , which no longer seems to exist for young people , should be reinstated . |
| 19 | You can talk about it to a close friend , though , which very often helps to ease the situation and subsequently make yourself better . |
| 20 | A feature of modern management of both wet gravel pits and reservoirs is to encourage leisure activities of various sorts , and landscaping ( which too often involves removing most of the marginal vegetation for tidiness ) . |
| 21 | As I say , it is the chorus which too often fails to rise to the occasion . |
| 22 | If there was somebody dolled up as a copper at the Abbey , you 've got a conspiracy , and it 's only if there was a conspiracy that the Secret Service is really interested , because that means there 's at least one bod floating loose who presumably still wants to kill the President . |
| 23 | As exclusively revealed in Limit the 28-year-old rave whiz — who so far has sold 60,000 records — works for the Inland Revenue which bans staff from moonlighting . |
| 24 | Many studies have been published since , but none so far has convinced regulatory bodies that action should be taken to protect populations exposed to electromagnetic radiation . |
| 25 | She just always has done . |
| 26 | And above all there 's Juliette Greco singing Si tu t'imagines , which is a Raymond Queneau poem , and Sartre 's Rue des Blancs Manteaux , perhaps the worst pop lyric ever , which she just about manages to save . |
| 27 | But Ed though remains superbly played by Ian Gelder , an ageing , moustachioed boy scout with emergent tendencies , as is Christopher Hancock 's fearful old dad who early on has rumbled Sloane , an Alf Garnett before his time . |
| 28 | One horrifying event she still clearly remembers occurred on Ferry Lane . |
| 29 | She nearly always does go to bed with me , if I shout at her a lot or threaten her or give her enough money . |
| 30 | Land use itself also quickly adapts to price signals , and the economic margin of cultivation can therefore change very rapidly . |