Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |
| 2 | If it persists long enough to block out sunlight for an period , it will have the effect of wiping out phytoplankton , with potentially-disastrous effects for all marine life further up the food chain . |
| 3 | SERVICEMEN and women are seldom in the same place long enough to put down roots and buy their own home . |
| 4 | There 's a theory being nurtured in certain quarters that Microsoft Corp Windows NT is less a strategic product than it is a dike against Unix and that Microsoft is trying to freeze the marketplace long enough to bring on Cairo , the Taligent Inc/Sun Microsystems Inc Project Distributed Objects Everywhere-like object-oriented environment it 's working on . |
| 5 | In the aggregate , however , the community can not reduce its bond holdings and the attempt to do so only drives down bond prices and , therefore , leads to an increase in interest rates . |
| 6 | ‘ I only just took out earthquake insurance . ’ |
| 7 | Cut down your meat consumption , better still cut out meat and slaughterhouse products altogether . |
| 8 | For Eden — and certain other key figures such as Macmillan ( now chancellor of the exchequer ) — this Egyptian coup was immediately seen as an opportunity to humiliate or better still to bring down Nasser . |
| 9 | Unable to do anything in bed but lie and whimper so temporarily give up search for progressive chemist who keeps contraceptives out on display . |
| 10 | The new credit line brings the company 's total unsecured facilities to $100m , of which it has so far drawn down $20m . |
| 11 | It has already been suggested that whereas academic courses tend to change incrementally , perhaps under the influence of research , professional courses seem to need the new broom of a major report every so often to bring about change . |
| 12 | This was only here to drive down wages and conditions of our members . |
| 13 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 14 | It is interesting , in view of later criticism of Edward Coleman 's reported preference for the sons of farriers and grooms as students , that Bourgelat preferred his veterinary students to be young men of good morals and behaviour , vigorous and robust , and of souche terriere ; he only occasionally sought out men of more ‘ exalted ’ origin . |
| 15 | Most just let off steam by shouting and screaming , but one in five admitted to lashing out . |
| 16 | I could see that Aunt Louise did not altogether rule out nuns . |
| 17 | The problem is how to explain the quantization of the electromagnetic field to one who can not instinctively write down Maxwell 's equations ( which is no shame ) , let alone say what they mean . |
| 18 | Somebody must be locked away somewhere totting up figures , or how would they make all that money ? |
| 19 | In other words these Guatemalan children show , as do Dennis 's institutionalized infants , that retardation during the first year or two of life is reversible , and that early experiences , however drastic at the time , do not necessarily set up patterns of behaviour that can not subsequently be modified . |
| 20 | It juxtaposes two entities : it does not necessarily spell out connections between them . |
| 21 | The local magnates who did not personally carry out thefts were very rarely tried , although some middle-level headmen were convicted for forging sale vouchers . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , a diet high in carbohydrates meant that some women not only put on weight but also stopped wearing their corsets . |
| 23 | There are also worries that increased public spending not only pushes up government borrowing to fund a high PSBR , but also leads to higher taxes , thereby reducing the incentives to work , save and take risks . |
| 24 | Treaty , included the right not only to take up activities as a self-employed person but also to pursue them in the broad sense of the term and that ‘ The renting of premises for business purposes furthers the pursuit of an occupation and therefore falls within the scope of article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 25 | Power does not only exist around individuals or within functions . |
| 26 | It 's previous incinerator was old and inefficient , not only belching out smoke but also the half burnt remains of used surgical dressings , and even patients confidential notes , which rained down on nearby gardens . |
| 27 | The rapid rise in the price of oil in the 1970s , for example , contributed to inflation in many countries around the world — oil price rises not only push up petrol prices , of course , but also affect the cost of all transport services and virtually all manufacturing and service industries . |
| 28 | ( Lads not only brought in money but added to status . ) |
| 29 | Remember that you are not only burning up calories while you walk , but your increased metabolic rate will keep burning up calories when you finish walking . |
| 30 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |