Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 How are the cells that will change shape specified to do so rather than all the other cells ?
2 It is so rarely when all the fledglings have left the nest , to have them all together again .
3 The original windows were steel-framed , in a stone mullion setting , and leaked so badly that all the conventional draught excluders proved useless ; my secondary double glazing , despite multiple magnetic and spring clips , was being blown out by wind pressure .
4 Thus , a bidder offering shares in itself as consideration for a takeover will be within the exemption so long as all the shareholders holding shares of the class offered for can take part in the arrangement .
5 So long as both the computer 's screen fonts and the printer or typesetter fonts were from the same source this caused no great problems but if the two were mixed then real trouble could occur .
6 ‘ Do you imagine you can compel my silence so easily after such an announcement ? ’ demanded Theda furiously .
7 That must be why they grow so tall so quickly and such a peculiar shade of green .
8 ‘ Since VJ day , the majority people of the area , the Vietnamese , have stubbornly resisted the re-establishment of French authority , a struggle in which we have tried to maintain so far as possible the position of non-support of either party ’ .
9 So far as possible the particulars of the charge shall be stated in simple terms , but they shall also show the precise offence in law with which he is charged .
10 So far as practicable the bench should include a member of each sex .
11 We have used the outside scale so far because all the angles left-right have been turns from left to right looking from the base line .
12 The recent box-office calamity of Marjorie Morningstar , was another example ; the big-budget Warner Brothers adaptation of Herman Wouk 's best-selling novel , starring Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly , ended up so dismally after such a huge build-up that Natalie began seeing her analyst at lunchtimes as well .
13 My surprise does not arise from the possibility of a Government defeat over the social chapter but from the fact that it is only now that such a story has found its way onto the front pages .
14 This is so even if both the joint owners share in the profits made from the property .
15 Half an hour together regularly and uninterrupted every evening is tremendously helpful to some couples .
16 ‘ He said he knew the part of Tuscany we were going to extremely well and all the priests were Communists .
17 Er no th th for anything that they run this week , they 'll be redirected in in-house , so we should be getting er about forty of those statements in tomorrow and forty the next day .
18 This showed that as long ago as 1923 a research worker drew attention to the usefulness of vibration to aid speechreading .
19 More importantly , as long ago as 1981 the Labour Party itself acknowledged in a major Policy Statement that the SDLP is ‘ a moderate nationalist party with very little support outside of the catholic community , and no trade union affiliation ’ .
20 The Report observes : ‘ It is now 25 years since Mitbestimmung ( Co-determination ) was introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany ’ ; and again : ‘ As long ago as 1972 the EEC published draft proposals for a Fifth Directive on Company law , proposing employee representation on the supervisory boards of all companies in the Community with over 500 employees ’ — a rhetorical presentation that pictures the United Kingdom as dragging its reluctant feet well in the rear of a party marching briskly along the path towards a bright new future entrusted not wholly but largely to trade unions .
21 As long ago as 1972 the Franks Committee recommended the repeal of this catch-all section but despite several abortive attempts , it was not until 1989 that section 2 was repealed .
22 As long ago as 1969 a small committee asked to report , from outside the Faculty , on the perennially troubled state of Cambridge English concluded ,
23 As long ago as 1975 a Home Office White Paper ‘ Computers and Privacy ’ said , unambiguously , that ‘ the time has come when those who use computers to handle personal information , however responsible they are , can no longer remain the sole judges of whether their own systems adequately safeguard privacy ’ , and it set out clearly the special features of computerised information systems which had implications for privacy .
24 Indeed , as long ago as 1958 the Lambeth Conference of Bishops issued this Resolution :
25 He screamed so loudly that all the other animals ran to help him .
26 Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop .
27 JustText obeys the normal Macintosh rules of pull-down menus and so on but all the commands to control the way in which the text will be printed have to be typed in as codes like { f9 } or { us } .
28 When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc .
29 We sat down then and all the time he was eating Frankie could n't keep his eyes off her or the things that surrounded him .
30 But that 's not all because all the books we offer will be cheaper than the publishers ' prices — with savings of up to 40% off the books we offer you .
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