Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is it that so movingly draws so many people — his innocent , childlike way , the stony visual he projects , set off against his highly visible symptoms ? |
| 2 | Dysfunction is a term currently enjoying great vogue , perhaps because it so aptly describes so much of what we laughingly refer to as modern living . |
| 3 | The operation itself is usually purely formal , and only just stirs up enough dust to make you cough a little , but it is a sign that you belong to the higher or fit-to-be-dusted classes . |
| 4 | The transition perhaps partly explains why representative democracy is so much less associated with national liberation today than in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 5 | It is the most astonishing part of all God 's providence to me , that He so far forsaketh almost all the world , and confineth His special favour to so few ; that so small a part of the world hath the profession of Christianity . ’ |
| 6 | Debt collectors are a third party and that point alone often has enough psychological impact to get a debtor to pay them on their very first approach . |
| 7 | Usually , I stay the same all day , and changing so often feels very strange to me . ’ |
| 8 | The rate at which you eat not only strongly influences how much you want to eat but — more surprisingly — it influences the length of time elapsing before you feel the desire to eat again . |
| 9 | We were thrilled by her generous gesture in this the Guild 's Centenary Year , not least because the story she tells so well shows that much of what we do for Christian Aid is in the best Guild tradition . |
| 10 | Does the Minister accept that the Secretary of State was mistaken when he said that the initial slow and small take-up of student loans showed that there was no widespread poverty and hardship among students since all the evidence of citizens advice bureaux , Members ' mail and so on shows clearly that , because of the reducing value of student grants and the attack on student benefits , there is real and widespread hardship and poverty among the British student population ? |
| 11 | Unfortunately , this is not always as successful as it might be , largely because your dog comes to relate to the trainer 's commands and so then proves more reluctant to follow your instructions . |
| 12 | ‘ The sea down there looks so inviting . ’ |
| 13 | Has a very calm nature and er explosive turn of pace and all round looks very promising this nineteen year old who 's made only about half a dozen appearances in the first team . |
| 14 | So why has n't such behaviour been recorded before ? |
| 15 | And they can also be distinguished on the basis of their sensitivity to another toxin , known as omega conortoxin , er which more or less specifically inhibits just one class of channel . |
| 16 | The central idea here is that a proper name qua proper name not only picks out one object only , but unlike a descriptive phrase designates that same object in " every possible world " ; a " possible world " being understood as representing a possible but unactualised situation , or a series of situations , of which the given object might be a feature . |
| 17 | The Advertising Standards Authority not only monitors over 850 advertisements every months , it ensures compliance with the rules in the strict Code of Advertising Practice . |
| 18 | It not only criticises nearly all forms of alternative treatment , but accuses practitioners of reluctance to submit claims to scientific examination . |
| 19 | As Shalev ( 1981 ) points out , comparative analysis not only raises substantively interesting and important questions but it also offers a natural and fruitful avenue for the advance of the discipline as a whole . |
| 20 | The test not only has directly practical implications in the diagnosis of disease . |
| 21 | Pyracantha rogersiana not only brightens up shady spots with its bright orange-red berries in autumn , but it also has attractive white flowers in spring . |
| 22 | But it just just seems suspiciously cheap . |
| 23 | The nation thus still remains largely unknown to the world , and to herself . |
| 24 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 25 | So combining the State benefits with your own life insurance that still only provides around seven thousand pounds a year . |
| 26 | Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping . |
| 27 | The act of copulation usually only takes about five seconds , ejaculation occurring as soon as the male has entered the female . |
| 28 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 29 | Even in times of rapid inflation , interest rates are generally so much higher than the rate of price inflation that saving up to buy later normally works out better value for money . |
| 30 | Objectively , it is true that Okapi nearly always retrieves as much as or more than LIBERTAS , but LIBERTAS sometimes outputs records in a more sensible order , keeping editions of the same work together and taking word adjacency into account in the weighting procedure ( so that records containing the actual search statement come out first ) . |