Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Balvinder Singh , in a fit of unusual prudishness , had long since refused to come on my trips to see the eunuchs in Old Delhi : ‘ Mr William . |
| 2 | Lizaveta once mended his clothes : when we puzzle over the chance-induced actuality of her murder being so largely left to speak for itself we are creating a false problem by the inertness of our own metaphor . |
| 3 | Nicky and Enya pride themselves on their rows ; ‘ I was basically just left to concentrate on music , ’ says Enya . |
| 4 | While most eighteenth-century beaux were obviously not disposed to live within their income and affected a bland indifference to the need to manage their personal finances , the tradesmen , the creditors on whose forbearance their insouciance depended , were campaigning against any legislation which seemed to reduce any further the chances of recovering what was owed them . |
| 5 | BBC WILDLIFE readers are obviously easily persuaded to fall in love with any animal — and why not ! |
| 6 | Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help . |
| 7 | A feminist perspective on , and analysis of , architecture and planning has only just begun to emerge over the last decade . |
| 8 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 9 | I 've only just started to cook in a convection oven , ’ Clare said apologetically . |
| 10 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 11 | Well I shall be in a minute , I 've only just got to go in the kitchen and get it . |
| 12 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |
| 13 | The Clarets only once managed to get past Ford during a frenzied 90 minutes in which Burnley bombarded the Seasiders ' goal . |
| 14 | Nebiolo , who has so far declined to enter into discussions with Jennings and his group , insisted in Stockholm that the IAAF did not have unlimited reserves to pay out prizes and said pointedly : ‘ People are believing things that are not realistic . |
| 15 | As you know , any electromagnetic disturbance ( any change in anything ) propagates with the velocity of light , something we have so far neglected to take into account . |
| 16 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 17 | England international Dixon has been ridiculed by the chant , ‘ if Lee Dixon plays for England , so can I ’ , but has so far refused to talk about it . |
| 18 | This they have so far managed to suppress with the aid of their ‘ close friends ’ the Americans . |
| 19 | By some miraculous quirk of fate , I have so far managed to get through life as a jobbing hack without ever once having to put my opinions on the preachers into print . |
| 20 | This should be translated : I personally , off the top of my head sitting in my study , never having visited the Arctic , never having seen a polar bear in the wild , and having been educated in classical literature and theology , have not so far managed to think of a reason why polar bears might benefit from being white . |
| 21 | If Mr Kaifu fails to revive the parliamentary bill designed to support the anti-Iraq forces in the Gulf , the Americans are likely to ask for a lot more than the $4 billion Japan has so far promised to contribute towards the growing expenses there . |
| 22 | On the issue of economic integration , delegates heard that only some dozen states had so far opted to adhere to the treaty instituting an African Economic Community ( AEC ) , which had been a focus for optimism at the OAU 1991 summit . |
| 23 | On the issue of economic integration , delegates heard that only some dozen states had so far opted to adhere to the treaty instituting an African Economic Community ( AEC ) , which had been a focus for optimism at the OAU 1991 summit . |
| 24 | A review of this policy , however , had urged " a more cautious attitude " towards the mainland , which had so far failed to respond to Taiwan 's initiatives on government-to-government contacts [ see p. 37455 ] . |
| 25 | To be a highly visible minority of two in communities which were often as expressive as they were antagonistic was an abrupt reversal of the roles we had so unthinkingly come to accept in our British prep schools . |
| 26 | Ultimately , much of the debate comes down to the question of choice , the word that the Tories have so successfully colonised in rhetoric and so often failed to deliver in reality . |
| 27 | Case conferences were held , and plans were made to take the children into care and still the mother apparently obstinately refused to look at the future . |
| 28 | I call all that sort of traffic , local traffic , and I think that the outer northern route is less well equipped to deal with those kinds of traffic . |
| 29 | They would have been less well advised to move from temporary obligation to redemption if they had had to wait for the money which the peasants owed them , but the government realized that peasants were in no position to redeem their obligations overnight and advanced most of the money to which nobles were entitled in the form of interest-bearing bonds . |
| 30 | Far from being the ineluctable outcome of intensifying class struggle in Russia , they see the revolution as fortuitous , arising from the coincidence of catastrophic war , abysmal monarchist leadership and liberal ineptitude in a country which had only recently begun to move towards liberal democracy . |