Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing goes as fast as I want it ’ ) , there were problems with design . |
| 2 | It is approached via a short lane on the left which goes no further than the House . |
| 3 | One of the most famous food shops in the country is to close , ending a slice of history which goes back more than a hundred years . |
| 4 | In 1969 , the Organisation of African Unity agreed a convention under which member states undertook obligations for refugees in their own regions , which goes considerably further than the United Nations convention . |
| 5 | That 's right , but first you have to elect a party to power for which bloodsport , and particularly hunting , is not sacrosanct and which represents more truly than at present the wishes of the people it governs . |
| 6 | Passing Wattisham we identify Stowmarket ( R ) and look for a specific road/railway junction ( S ) , which turns up exactly as we expected it . |
| 7 | Karajan himself lives more dangerously than his rivals , taking time to let ideas blossom rather then self-consciously pushing forward , and yet he displays the keenest sense of line . |
| 8 | It was and stili is the extraordinary pictorial value of the linear patterns and forms created by Nijinska for Les Noces which emphasises more clearly than any other ballet the need for every choreographer to keep strict control over the mass of material needed to make a single work . |
| 9 | Books of old photographs are always fascinating , and there are several examples to be found in the shop , including Thomas Begbie 's Edinburgh , a photographic portrait of the city in mid-Victorian times , and To see Oursels , a striking portrayal of a rural Scotland which has now all but disappeared , and which draws on the unrivalled collections of the National Museum of Scotland 's Ethnological Archive . |
| 10 | Both prominence and deviance have a negative , as well as a positive side : a feature which occurs more rarely than usual is just as much a part of the statistical pattern as one which occurs more often than usual ; and it may also be a significant aspect of our sense of style . |
| 11 | Both prominence and deviance have a negative , as well as a positive side : a feature which occurs more rarely than usual is just as much a part of the statistical pattern as one which occurs more often than usual ; and it may also be a significant aspect of our sense of style . |
| 12 | We have looked at the idea of a female , in-dwelling , general light , which radiates out even though we may scarcely be aware of it . |
| 13 | Men DO make passes at girls who wear glasses — which is probably why Cartier have named their new gold-plated frames ‘ Romance ’ and designed an invisible ‘ C ’ stamp on the lens which shows up only when breathed on … approx £310 . |
| 14 | Nobody speaks as well as you do . ’ |
| 15 | " I stopped reading my mail but Sarah ( his wife ) did n't , " Strange said after issuing an apology which said : " I want to express my sincere apologies … no excuse can justify my outburst , and nobody feels as badly as I do . " |
| 16 | In the 1940s Ewan McColl , the folksinger , and Joan Littlewood , the playwright and theatre director , recorded an old Dales lead-miner singing a song called " Fourpence a Day " which tells more truthfully than the industrial archaeologists ' sometimes ebullient picture of the grandeur of Victorian enterprise , the real benefits of lead-mining for the many — simply hardship and poverty . |
| 17 | In this case a control group would be selected which matches as closely as possible , member for member , the characteristics of the people constituting the experimental group . |
| 18 | Gertrude Jekyll 's garden is laid out on the eastern side , in a drawer which extends more fully than the garage . |
| 19 | This desire for control over all aspects of her life is allied to a single-minded approach to her career which dates back long before she became famous . |
| 20 | But I submit that it might be wise to look for an interpretation of quantum mechanics which comes as near as possible to being in accord with the attitude so widespread among its users . |
| 21 | Instinctively , Martin Luther laid stress on the old Latin proverb , ‘ Nothing ages more quickly than gratitude . ’ |
| 22 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 23 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 24 | And where Carole lives out in Earlswood , down the lanes she lives round there as well . |
| 25 | His godson , Harry Hubbard , is a young Agency aspirant who joins up just as the Cold War is getting hot . |
| 26 | She has as far as pictures are concerned Rich . |
| 27 | ‘ Push or pull — who cares so long as the job gets done , ’ Hayman put in . |
| 28 | ‘ But somebody who cares as much as you do , you 'd want to know . ’ |
| 29 | yeah , but it goes from computer to computer , but summat 's gone wrong ai n't it ? , somewhere along the line , they 've rang the bank themselves maybe he did n't believe your dad or not I do n't know , she got back to him , she says , we 've rang your bank and they were very helpful , they saw it so what you have to do is ring Blackpool , she says as so as soon as Blackpool ring back , she 'll ring |
| 30 | She says as far as pensioners are concerned some will get hypothermia . |