Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the remaining 77 , only eight had ever offered a ‘ substantial ’ programme of such work ; this was a relatively unexacting definition , requiring only a written needs assessment and the employment of a whole time or part time worker with a specific remit for this work . |
| 2 | If , over the years , the balance of probabilities has shifted so that balances previously included as creditors now seem unlikely ever to be paid , it would be appropriate for the balances in question to be removed from creditors , with the corresponding credit in either profit and loss account or , if the sums are material and the adjustment arises from a fundamental error , the profit and loss reserves in the balance sheet . |
| 3 | For the next moment he was kissing her and she was instantly realising that nothing quite so exciting had ever happened to her before . |
| 4 | I will admit that I am a total tube head when it comes to guitar amps , but at the same time sufficiently open-minded to have previously applauded other companies ' efforts in solid state technology . |
| 5 | Of the 105 countries who originally signed the convention , only 22 have subsequently ratified it . |
| 6 | Perhaps this has now developed as a whole group drama , with the children playing the townspeople of Hamelin . |
| 7 | In the same period only 13,700 came here to live . |
| 8 | Just so much easier to get just to know that if ever like you know , eight or nine o'clock one night for whatever reason I wanted to come home I could be there like myself , in an hour . |
| 9 | By 1965 or so this had all gone , but Medalla himself has been too bouncy and inventive to obey the arid strictures of minimalism . |
| 10 | As far as Mr Collier 's point er alternative policies concerned , I think listening to it and only half having perhaps digested the full implication , I think really as a matter of principle we 're not un unsympathetic to a lot of what what a lot of people are suggesting there . |
| 11 | He had not seen any of them in the papers , so some had probably replied personally . |
| 12 | Rosemary later confessed to Leith that seeing Travis looking so haggard had really got to her . |
| 13 | It is nevertheless significant that , however much anti-German growling there has been on Capitol Hill since the invasion of Kuwait , little has been heard within the administration . |
| 14 | The boost to disposable income comes at an awkward time , when the economic slowdown is not sufficiently well-established to have even begun to close the trade gap ; but the structural change is welcome . |
| 15 | It was already clear by November 1914 that the war would not ‘ be over by Christmas ’ , as so many had optimistically supposed . |
| 16 | Many areas , such as Norfolk , which remain highly unionized continue also to contain some of the lowest-paid agricultural workers in the country . |
| 17 | The Minister of State for Social Security , in outlining his calculations , demonstrated that increases of £5 and £8 in the pensions would have lead to only 100,000 ceasing entirely to draw means-tested assistance ( letter from John Major , MP , to the author , 7 October 1986 ) . |
| 18 | And I , and he said to me oh you 're so paranoid Catriona , you always wear your tracksuit bums , you know , you 're so stupid to get so worked up about it . |
| 19 | As the case study of Channel Four ( see below ) amply demonstrates , concerned groups and individuals attempted to keep these services out of the competitive struggle between the two giants of broadcasting in the hope that they would be better able to serve previously excluded minority groups in society . |
| 20 | On the Homisgrinde , a mountain top half way along the spine of the Black Forest and littered with dying fir and spruce , the author and a colleague asked a German ecologist how something so dramatic had apparently started unnoticed . |
| 21 | The–e be put with their mother into the greenhouse , but visiting them the next day found that only five chicks still had legs . |
| 22 | Why has the United Nations been so slow to act effectively to stop the Serb-led aggression reminiscent of the worst of communist thuggery ? |
| 23 | By the end of February 1940 , out of 3 million people in the priority classes ( of which only 1,165,000 had actually taken part in the evacuation ) a mere 477,000 remained in the safe reception areas . |
| 24 | Naturally , they ca n't all come at weekends , so several get together to form parties for a mid-week break in the great outdoors . |
| 25 | It is therefore perhaps necessary to pause here to reaffirm some of the intentions of the movement which have hitherto been suggested only in passing . |
| 26 | It 's just that lifts only break down because people use them , rubbish chutes only get blocked with rubbish and debris only accumulates because public spaces are n't cleaned often enough . |
| 27 | This is normally adequate to distinguish recently made objects — fakes — from those genuinely manufactured in antiquity . |
| 28 | They were not disposed to lose both output and earnings by downing tools . |
| 29 | Americans were not willing to die simply to restore the British Empire . |
| 30 | Some of the older officers still try to do it , they 're not willing to changeNot only does Grendon demand a different attitude from its prisoners , the staff must also change . |