Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is most effectively done using some variant of the ‘ whistle-a-happy-tune ’ strategy . |
| 2 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |
| 3 | No , Molly had long since decided to play this one cool . |
| 4 | Pippo continued to bother us , though we had long since stopped taking any notice of him , and the Allied air attacks continued . |
| 5 | He handled it all like a veteran superstar who has long since learned to accept that fame and fortune have a downside , as well as an upside . |
| 6 | As Palace impressed in Division One in 1990–91 , Mark 's prowess gained further recognition when he scored The Eagles ' decisive goal against Liverpool in the televised Football League match on 30 December , but Palace fans had by then long since ceased to need any persuading that this intelligent and hard-working centre-forward is among the best in the country . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd much rather get involved that way than just stand about watching . |
| 8 | The director had a knack of giving elegant voice to exactly the thought that was currently in poorish shape at the back of Arthur 's head , and this was infuriating , though to feel resentment at having your skull so stylishly looted seemed small-minded and a blunder of taste . |
| 9 | But if " and " is replaced by " or " , the seller is apparently only entitled to exercise one of the rights . |
| 10 | By the time of Anselm 's death the question was essentially settled and Anselm 's successor Ralph was fighting in a hopeless cause : by the time of Ralph 's death , the instruments of universal government had become sufficiently highly developed to make all that Lanfranc and Anselm had stood for in this aspect of their work a thing of the past . |
| 11 | They are the ones who have been long enough in the profession to have lost some of their naivety and to have mastered the art of teaching , whilst they have not been teachers long enough to have become demoralized and cynical . |
| 12 | Ale was not often kept in barrels cos it did n't keep long enough to want to have enough of it . |
| 13 | Furthermore , although the chronicler was well informed , and has something to offer on events in Mercia and Northumbria , he seems to have known most , or perhaps merely wished to say most , about what happened in southern England and East Anglia . |
| 14 | The adaptation of linguistic terms like mood and of rhetorical terms like ellipsis is not so much designed to construct rigid parallels either with language or with rhetoric , but rather is itself a rhetorical device for freeing narrative from any referential interpretation . |
| 15 | The institutions themselves , being closer to the work in question , were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility . |
| 16 | He seemed to be much better equipped to accept political realities than I was . |
| 17 | It 's it 's like I I better not say say this but Irishmen over that when when I when I used to work with Irishmen my word they was good Irishmen . |
| 18 | DEC says COSE is apparently not going to require participating companies to adopt its whole technology package , running the risk of watering down its whole purpose . |
| 19 | DEC says that COSE is apparently not going to require participating companies to adopt its whole technology package , even though that would run the risk of watering down its whole purpose . |
| 20 | With regard to an absence of market demand , the economic development strategy produced by the County Council refers to inward investment , it refers to this as being a small portion of the portion of er job growth , the county is not necessarily best placed to attract inward investment in terms of the the type of economy that we have based on small firms and the availability of labour . |
| 21 | People who asked her why she did n't make use of her talent and give singing lessons had perhaps not tried to do this while living in two rooms over a greengrocers , and looking after young children . |
| 22 | I think if the committee did that then we 'd be back to what five or six years ago , when a whole afternoon was spent on that and I would n't commend that to you , but can we perhaps have a word with the officers at a later stage , take it on board what both Graham and Anne have been saying , and obviously not trying to do that in a meeting like this but try to prepare for it a month before-hand . |
| 23 | The only freedom that the Government appear to understand is the freedom of the market even though it has so patently failed to deliver enough housing , child care or training . |
| 24 | They may well be cumulative , since poorer groups can less easily afford to bear any organization costs , whereas the wealthy can meet similar costs easily . |
| 25 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 26 | And we 're only just beginning to realise that . |
| 27 | We are only just beginning to plan these new general SVQs . |
| 28 | These comments may seem to apply only to the large international manufacturing corporation , but nowadays there is no business so small that it is immune to the effects of international competition , and many service businesses are only just beginning to feel these effects . |
| 29 | There is a rich erm , history of women in Scotland and we 're only just beginning to discover that and publish that , and I think that we will establish traditions by doing that . |
| 30 | The birch tree outside is only just beginning to look green , but at least it is , I suppose . |