Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 2 | Though Leith , with her high sense of responsibility , would much rather that the Norwood & Chambers file had landed on somebody else 's desk . |
| 3 | He asked if it would be all right if the Southampton police were to sell the bike and give the proceeds to one of their charities , and I readily agreed . |
| 4 | Few of these , from the vantage point of 1990 , flourished as corporations so successfully as the BBC , which gained a reputation as one of the great creations of social and cultural policy in the twentieth century . |
| 5 | It is important to remember that Britain fared less badly than the USA and some of its Continental neighbours , and that even adjusted for unemployment , real wages continued to increase on average until the early 1930s ( figure 4.2 , see Dimsdale 1984 ) . |
| 6 | Within the union , therefore , Scargill 's call was for solidarity , for those with more readily-guaranteed futures to support other miners ' prospects which were less bright , especially so if the NCB could capitalize on splits and other weaknesses within the NUM , thereby enabling it to isolate vulnerable areas . |
| 7 | In addition , the new regulations continued the pre-war advantages for university-provided liberal adult education which further weakened the relative position of the WEA so much so that the Ashby Committee reported that university income for adult education had exceeded £550,000 in 1951–52 in contrast to the WEA 's income of little more than £130,000 for that year . |
| 8 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 9 | The Soviet Union , for its part , let it be known that if serious trouble did break out in East Germany Soviet troops would not move in , as they did to quell the 1953 revolt — so long as the West did not interfere either . |
| 10 | If you want to keep Pimelodus pictus with small fish , you might find you can get away with it in a densely planted tank , so long as the Pims are getting plenty of other food to eat . |
| 11 | A powerful Japan could work either for or against South Korea ; so long as the United States exercised a controlling influence over Japan , it would work for rather than against South Korea . |
| 12 | Whatever the legal rights and wrongs , so long as the Angevins actually held Gisors they were clearly negotiating from a position of strength and could reasonably hope that one day the King of France would be forced to concede their case . |
| 13 | Akashi said that so long as the Khmers Rouges refused to disarm , a freeze was necessary to maintain the balance of power in the country . |
| 14 | In Fig. 22.6 , the large polygonal features are permanent structures ; that is to say , once the flow has been established the polygonal pattern remains unchanging so long as the Rayleigh number is maintained constant , although the details of just where the polygons locate themselves will be different each time the experiment is performed . |
| 15 | A statement warned : ‘ So long as the SDLP continue to exercise a veto on political progress in Ulster , courtesy of IRA violence , and so long as Sinn Fein/IRA continue to act as the military wing of Irish nationalism , then so long will our war against them continue and intensify . ’ |
| 16 | The sub-committee can simply decide to allocate eight of these to applicants for Theology and Development ( so long as the WCC Scholarship Unit in Geneva passes on sufficient applications ) . |
| 17 | On top of all this there is the pronouncement by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate that it sees no reason why the PWR should not receive a licence for construction and operation in the UK , so long as the CEGB and the people who are to build the power station get it right . |
| 18 | It pulls hard , evenly and far less raucously than an Astra GSi , Escort RS2000 or Renault 19 16v . |
| 19 | He carries the burden of having been sworn in just before the US operations began , and he remains in hiding under the protection of the United States . |
| 20 | The United States of America has progressed much further than the United Kingdom has in determining this question but the basic legal principles are the same : copyright protects expression but not idea . |
| 21 | The missing video was finally tracked down yesterday and the BBC ran it on their lunchtime news programme . |
| 22 | R. Hall ( 1985 ) suggested this under-reporting is perhaps partly because the BCS used some male interviewers . |
| 23 | But was it for this that the trumpets blew so confidently when the TECs appeared , less than two years ago ? |
| 24 | There were families and organisations out there which had sworn to kill him far less cleanly than the KGB would , and he had learned to live with that . |
| 25 | Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State 's duty so far as the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge are concerned , is only to ‘ consult . ’ |
| 27 | In so far as the Manchester Corporation case is inconsistent with the principle to which I have referred it is wrong and is not good law . |
| 28 | So far as the Rome Convention is concerned , I of course accept that it is legitimate and appropriate to take its provisions into account in construing article 5(1) : the Arcado case [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 1539 , 1555 , and see , also , Ivenel v. Schwab ( Case 133/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 1891 , 1900 . |
| 29 | But , so far as the US and its poodles in the UN Security Council are concerned , law is not the issue . |
| 30 | But we can not forget that in fabliau terms the wife of the Shipman 's Tale can be credited as a successful trickster ; in so far as the Shipman 's Tale does develop an antifeminist perspective in the ways suggested above , it enhances the antifeminist possibilities of a genre that is characteristically only playfully antifeminist . |