Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also reported that work was under way to clear Iraqi mines from the coastal waters around Kuwait , in preparation for the amphibious assault which was widely expected to accompany any allied ground offensive . |
| 2 | Because you 're secretly dying to press that delightful body up against me and find out how it feels ? ’ |
| 3 | The economic situation in Zambia then and since has prevented any such ambitious project from being carried out . |
| 4 | The survey figures also suggest very clearly that the lack of really severe cold in any winter since has enabled many resident birds to maintain increased populations in woodland , although this may not be so in other habitats . |
| 5 | But no subject received more attention than Mathematics and no curriculum project then or since has received such massive support as the Entebbe programme and its successors . |
| 6 | First , Britain 's position in world trade in 1950 resulted from a temporary advantage since , despite enormous difficulties , she was better placed to make some immediate recovery from the effects of the world war than the devastated economies of Europe and Japan [ Milward , 1984 ] . |
| 7 | Bob Henry , you must be aware of some of the criticisms which were levelled at the companies which were put out by arts associations , where they say really it 's very self-indulgent and nobody much goes to see this particular type of dance group . |
| 8 | This involves finding a language for the goal of contemplative life — " I vate wele desyres to here some special poynt of luf of Jhesu Criste , and of contemplatyf lyfe " [ vate wele : know well ; here : hear ] ( 6.102 – 3.214 – 2 ) — to bridge the gap between doctrine and reality . |
| 9 | Television is excellent for this , and Chomsky for long has had that great domain in which to show how governments and the big businesses linked to most television powers are very , very careful to be sure that few views are presented which violate the currently useful consensus . |
| 10 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 11 | One merely has to allow that harming others may itself be resisted by invoking the sanction of the criminal law . |
| 12 | She was speaking at random , saying anything at all , only to try to distract this acute old woman from saying what was clearly in her mind . |
| 13 | Do you actually do you personally expect to see many more people staying at home ? |
| 14 | In view of these needs and the long standing trends in computer speed increases , scientists naturally hope to have more powerful computers to allow work on these problems in the near future . |
| 15 | As Asian countries have built up their own knowledge industries and have begun to export knowledge products , they have naturally moved to regulate this complex trade . |
| 16 | She discussed the idea with her sister-in-law Mabel , and asked her if she would like to come along to help choose some suitable fabric . |
| 17 | Okay , it right , erm , nought point five three , you 're obviously going to do these quicker than I can write them down , so you can write them down . |
| 18 | Many of my volunteers commented on how much they enjoyed eating so much fruit and vegetables and how much fitter they felt , so I have no doubt that it is the reduction of fat and the increase in better , healthier food that together helped produce such positive benefits . |
| 19 | As the weeks went by , I naturally began to enjoy this new-found notoriety . |
| 20 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 21 | Sixty eight patients with active left sided ulcerative colitis were identified from gastroenterology outpatients in three centres and randomly allocated to receive either 5-ASA enemas ( 2 g 5-aminosalicylic in 100 ml ) or bismuth-citrate-carbomer enemas . |
| 22 | Patients were randomly allocated to receive either conventional treatment alone ( control group ) , or conventional treatment plus nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation ( NIPPV group ) . |
| 23 | And although the names given of some of the boys arrested for these offences — David Stones and Arthur Gobbing , for example — suggest the possibility of a hoax , police reports repeatedly referred to ‘ this dangerous practice ’ and that ‘ the danger to the public seems sufficiently marked to warrant some special steps ’ . |
| 24 | On certain days the cats suddenly decide to eat much less than usual . |
| 25 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 26 | So having got that first one out of the way |
| 27 | But in some capitalist societies the working class seems to have no distinct political organisation or ideology , and so appears to lack any defining characteristics at these levels . |
| 28 | I felt quite dirty having to tell all these intimate details to total strangers and most of all my mother , who I had to live with and would always know everything , as they are not the sort of things you discuss with your parents . |
| 29 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
| 30 | It says a great deal for the language faculty of the Polytechnic of Central London that it not only survived having this vociferous cuckoo of a course in its midst but is planning to repeat it . |