Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Servant of Yahweh , Jesus treads the path of suffering and obedience right the way to Calvary : so much so that Peter could describe his suffering and death in terms culled from the famous prophecy of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah : |
| 2 | It is the Spirit of Christ that unites us with Christ : so much so that Paul can say ‘ If any man does not have the Spirit of Christ , he does not belong to Christ ’ ( Rom. 8:9 ) . |
| 3 | Better perhaps that Benedict should not return — though God send nothing had happened to him , for she could bear anything but that ! — for that his lost inheritance , through her fault , must prevent his ever regarding her with anything but hatred . |
| 4 | On July 27 , 100 deputies and senators from the Solidarity Centre Alliance had petitioned Jaruzelski to stand down so that Walesa could be named President in his place . |
| 5 | He ate so swiftly that Libby could n't take her eyes off him ; she remembered all they were told about behaving properly and eating slowly . |
| 6 | Molly Pearce , the helpful spinster with her eye on Maurice ; she fitted so exactly that Wycliffe could scarcely believe his luck . |
| 7 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |
| 8 | Cos , lots of towns and even good towns that yo you would of thought that are better off than Harlow would have been would have been do n't do half as much for the pensioners as Harlow does . |
| 9 | ‘ Hallo ? ’ he repeated , rather louder than necessary and so carefully that Hugh could hear the vowels tinkling into place . |
| 10 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 11 | It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see . |
| 12 | But the baby , so far as Wendy could see , was in good order , firm of limb , bright of eye , smooth of skin and , once released from its wrapping , extremely lively . |
| 13 | Well laid out , so far as Newman could see while she made the tea . |
| 14 | ‘ The Mamur Zapt ? ’ said Suleiman , surprised but , so far as Owen could tell , not disconcerted . |
| 15 | So far as Bragg could see , the man had clearly been killed by a crushing blow to the head . |
| 16 | Besides , if Maidstone could predict so accurately when Elsie would appear then it would be a simple matter to find her again — perhaps at the same time tomorrow . |
| 17 | Zelah was a cross to be borne more or less cheerfully and Helen could handle her , when necessary , by being devastatingly blunt . |
| 18 | Waiters ran around from table to table , shouting to each other and to the customers , so fast that Shelley could n't catch what was going on . |
| 19 | She groaned and turned over , hoping she would fall asleep again , but her brain insisted on relaying pictures of her twin , so vividly that Dana could have been in the same room . |
| 20 | He had changed the subjet so adroitly that Juliet could only stare at him . |
| 21 | ‘ A pity , ’ Bruce murmured so quietly that Corbett could hardly hear him . |
| 22 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |
| 23 | It was not enough that God could have done what Aristotle had deemed impossible . |
| 24 | Well , if so , not so that Alice could take it in . |
| 25 | These lords viewed Edward III 's seizure of power with enthusiasm , believing not only that Edward might wish to wipe out the stain of the Stanhope Park campaign and the shameful peace , but also that they themselves might reap some political reward for their opposition to Mortimer in 1328 . |
| 26 | ‘ Just as you like , ’ said Burden , turning his face away so that Wexford should not see him smile . |
| 27 | She looked away so that Trent would n't see her misery : ‘ He told me not to tell anyone . ’ |
| 28 | That brought tears to my eyes and I turned away so that Jeff would n't be able to see them , then fought them back . |
| 29 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 30 | September 10th was the Saturday following Heather 's visit to Oxford and thus just when Harry would have expected her to proceed to the Skein of Geese . |