Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most British firms even if they recognize the problem , do n't do anything about it . |
| 2 | There are advantages in having one set of meetings starting just after school ends and the other set later on another evening so that shift workers have an opportunity to attend . |
| 3 | Erm so I mean I think , you know , it might be useful , well , in some ways it would be very useful for you to have erm two sort of six month stints in rather different environments so that then you 'd sort of keep your options open a bit . |
| 4 | With respect to all of these elements there are widely different interpretations both as to their nature and as to the relation between them ; all of which have profound methodological consequences . |
| 5 | Right this minute now cos it 's quarter to nine already , we need to be getting going to school considering we were n't going five minutes ago and now we are ! |
| 6 | He recalls one study suggested that if you present youngsters with a diet of relentlessly insipid programmes then that in itself may stir up aggressive tendencies and encourage violence . |
| 7 | Heads of Department and staff were also asked to use the International Reading Association check list in relation to the most popular texts so that their responses could subsequently be checked with mine ( see appendix 2 for check list and annotation ) . |
| 8 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 9 | I hope that every parish will take on this duty carefully and conscientiously . |
| 10 | Multi-party talks at Codesa ( the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ) broke down eight months ago when the ANC walked out after the massacre of more than 40 of its sympathisers in Boipatong township by followers of the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party . |
| 11 | ‘ Everybody was just completely shook , all the musicians , all the crew , and it 's been pretty much that way ever since — everybody 's still shook . |
| 12 | The school shut down eleven days ago but now its ninety one pupils are back in the classroom … after some round-the-clock work from builders and staff . |
| 13 | In October 1879 the headings from the English and Welsh sides were only 138 yards apart when a great inrush of water occurred , and the work was brought to a standstill . |
| 14 | He remembered a big elegant room — whose he never learnt — with wide-spaced deep leather chairs that created a literally hid-back atmosphere rather than one hunched over a table . |
| 15 | Many observers believe it will fall to below 2,200 points even if the anti-inflation policy works and the 15 per cent base rate level is held . |
| 16 | If we take down that tree there and this one here … ’ |
| 17 | The cookhouse was only fifty yards away and was open from 12.30 pm to 1.30 pm ; at 1.15 pm we were still hobbling round the block in an abdominal crouch with our hands behind our heads . |
| 18 | In a muffled voice she added , ‘ They had so little time together that I hope they were happy . ’ |
| 19 | A problem arose over the interpretation of the definition of cash and cash equivalents as including highly liquid instruments only if they have less than three months remaining to maturity when purchased . |
| 20 | The news was greeted with astonishment by Christopher Mason , leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrat group : ‘ It 's extraordinary that a ‘ caring , sharing ’ council told its employees only eight days ago that they would be offered redundancy or redeployment . ’ |
| 21 | The management staff , good quality staff , very high highly technical expertise etcetera so they 've got staff there . |
| 22 | Because the stack is such a common programming device for retaining intermediate results in the right order ( for arithmetic calculation , syntactic analysis , subroutine and interrupt entry and return , etc. ) , many modern computers provide facilities for manipulating a stack , even though they are basically one-address computers rather than zero-address like the KDF9 and Burroughs computers . |
| 23 | The duels between these two groups were fought with knives which they carried in small scabbards on their belts , and it was only some time later that the rival school 's knockout tactics were discovered . |
| 24 | It was only some time later when he was safely on his way to Theatre that they realised the whole lot had been filmed . |
| 25 | It was only some years later that Jacques learned of the Board 's initiatives and that it had failed because members of the county council had been deeply suspicious of the radicalism associated with liberal adult education in the industrial areas of the county . |
| 26 | This band had such an enormous impact on the rock world in the late '60s , and it was only some years later that I fully appreciated my own debt , realising that for a ( heavy ) rock band , Zep often had an underlying funkiness , due in large part to the style of J.P.J. which allowed for some very subtle and interesting grooves . |
| 27 | It is a dilemma that recurs throughout the history of liberal and democratic movements , as radical groups repeatedly push the logic of an apparently universal claim further than the respectable classes ever intended . |
| 28 | The Wolf-Man — a rich Russian identified in a tantalisingly Chekhovian fashion only as ‘ Segei P- ’ — was certainly a bit odd . |
| 29 | Its diameter is only 12 centimetres rather than 12 inches but its silvered surface is covered in laser-etched pits like a videodisc . |
| 30 | The youngest ship was built only 12 years ago and the oldest was constructed in 1966 . |