Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Well , we 've been working on digitally remastering them all . |
2 | Two of the few consultants lost were Michel Carre and Georges Orban , who went on successfully to form their own firm , Carre Orban . |
3 | For himself , he finds that the sitting posture most effectively releases his contemplative energy . |
4 | They urged the EC to extend the generalized system of preferences ( GSP ) to a range of products from the region , and thereby effectively to allow them duty-free entry to the European market . |
5 | Thus , by the end of the decade , the number of institutions in the public sector concerned with teacher training was substantially reduced , at least fourteen colleges had closed altogether , over sixty had merged with polytechnics and other further education institutions , a few had joined universities , and even those that remained ‘ free-standing ’ , that is untouched by institutional reorganization , found themselves offering a diversified range of courses including teacher training , thereby fundamentally altering their academic role . |
6 | Then , his eyes shadowed and unreadable , he lowered himself slowly down to kiss her hot , upturned face , to smooth the rumpled blonde hair back from her forehead . |
7 | He would then be able to judge to which of the latter he could most advantageously give his second preference , and this informed choice could well not be the same as the " blind " choice the STV obliges him to make . |
8 | By this time , of course , Mwafrika and its successors had long since lost their former political stance . |
9 | One thing which has struck me very forcibly through the years is that most of the classic evolutionary lineages of my student days , such as Ostrea-Gryphaea and Zaphrentis delanouei , have long since lost their scientific respectability , and in spite of the plethora of palaeontological information we now have available , there seems to be very little to put in their place . |
10 | John , of course , had long since lost his northern accent and took delight in his appearance as the well-heeled businessman . |
11 | ‘ But think of all the mating generations that have long since poured their different bloodlines into her . |
12 | They are also completely fearless — having long since confronted their own vision of world destruction , nothing holds any terror for them any longer . |
13 | If you wish to use the wedding flowers but they have long since passed their best , you could choose a suitable selection from a florist or your garden and press those . |
14 | Visitors to its New York headquarters were confronted with pictures of both domestic animals and livestock all discreetly shielding their private parts with a variety of strange garments . |
15 | I 'd much rather have something light in — ’ |
16 | She felt as though someone had dumped an enormous casket of jewels in her lap , and pleasurable though that was , she knew that in her heart she would much rather have her great-aunt alive , and the casket of treasure at some much later time in her own life . |
17 | We must face the problem of possible rejection and realize it is all right to show our true feelings and that it is all right to be rejected . |
18 | After years of listening to and reading Anglo-Saxon women letting it all hang out , it was refreshing to be among women who so rigorously kept it all in . |
19 | But we are given such a huge sweep from birth to incipient death that the movie never draws breath long enough to give us any depth or conflict . |
20 | I do n't think I 'd live long enough to see it mature . |
21 | One of the major problems I 've encountered with this review is actually keeping hold of the guitar long enough to form my own opinion . |
22 | ‘ Long enough to know my own worth , ’ Gina retorted , irritated by the sardonic gleam in his eyes . |
23 | They would n't have had it long enough to clear their own ground rent . |
24 | Bénezet had been in his service long enough to understand his own part in the operation in hand without having to be told . |
25 | Nevertheless , Hong Kong 's flora and fauna are basically that of neighbouring China , though some islands must have been separated long enough to produce their own endemic species . |
26 | What is the poison ivy that so jealously guards our dark fortress ? |
27 | Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’ |
28 | When you so eagerly accepted your first-ever part did you think Mowgli would be wearing a kaftan ? |
29 | That only perhaps left him one alternative — an ultimate alternative which no-one , not even Carnelian , could reasonably expect him to invoke , let alone soon … |
30 | As a teen-ager , he took daily subway trips to the Metropolitan Museum to study the painted portraits that so greatly influenced his photographic style . |