Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They moved to a flat in Kensington that Ken financed for them — to the point that he made Carry On Regardless solely to recoup some of his losses . |
| 2 | It took a while before anyone issued a Shabba album , perhaps because he was so popular in reggae 's ‘ get a money ’ freelance business that no producer could pin him down long enough to cut enough sides . |
| 3 | and I suppose , you know , they 're perhaps better off buying these disposable nappies . |
| 4 | I made several speeches in the Lords propounding my belief that the Biafran side should have had our support , and I still believe we would have been very much better off had that ensued . |
| 5 | Were n't you together long enough to know that ? ’ |
| 6 | No it ca n't be cos we 've only just just turned that one over ! |
| 7 | Only once before has this riveting axis started a game and the first-half goal rush was an event waiting to happen . |
| 8 | Although the term censorship is usually applied to instances of government interference in programme making , Brittan uses it much more broadly to include such structural and institutional constraints as the IBA 's power to withdraw franchises and its right to vet schedules and programmes . |
| 9 | Coral Springs , Florida-based Citrix Systems Inc has so far not made much of an impact in the market with its multi-user versions of personal computer operating systems , notably the Multiuser version of OS/2 , which uses code licensed from Microsoft Corp — but Microsoft reckons that the company may have something anyway , and has now signed a ‘ strategic alliance ’ agreement with Citrix . |
| 10 | U K I A S was not consulted about this proposal beforehand and have so far not received any details about it . |
| 11 | Because these constructions were both eliminated at an early stage of the transformation to normal form , we have so far not needed any such laws . |
| 12 | Mr Honecker , 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation , has so far flatly rejected all notions of change . |
| 13 | We do not have to go quite so far afield to find another language which still plays a considerable part in our daily conversation . |
| 14 | I mean , there 's not enough there yet to do any real good with . |
| 15 | The danger in this , as in the previously described case of the GCSE examinations , is that such targets can all too easily omit those qualities we most value in favour of the ones that can readily be measured , or lead to children being given a much narrower syllabus geared to achieving only those aspects that are going to be assessed . |
| 16 | The trains moving with fluid inertia ; the tiny plastic trees and buildings — their implausible neatness all too accurately complementing that trompe-l'oeil reality of which he had spoken ; beyond the papier mâché horizon , the workings of a pocket deity were clearly visible in the brushstrokes of the painted sky . |
| 17 | Corporate luminaries cackle on about the importance of quality , yet all too often use this management-babble as a substitute for effective leadership . |
| 18 | But it is partly because the social security system is centrally run , overworked and understaffed that the customers all too often receive such a poor service . |
| 19 | The fact that normally the two brothers-in-law got along very peaceably made this present exchange particularly acrimonious . |
| 20 | Well I 've made appointment for Wednesday so bloody well keep that ! |
| 21 | He added : " It is a strange world we live in where it is not all right to kill some animals because they are prettier or more intelligent than others . " |
| 22 | It is not enough just to have that prioritised list . |
| 23 | But if we try to use the same two adjectives with the same two nouns in a predicative construction we shall find that the result is ungrammatical : ( 49 ) that rival was possible those two sailors are occasional As in other instances , it is not enough merely to record that possible , occasional and certain other adjectives are ungrammatical in predicative position when constructed with certain nouns . |
| 24 | You should have this one twenty left over so just check that and make sure that you have cos if you have n't something 's gone wrong and you have to start again but you |
| 25 | it has not so far provided any really noticeable challenge to the Secretary of State 's views . |
| 26 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 27 | I could not bring myself to suggest that she was not likely to live much longer , certainly not long enough to make either course imprudent . |
| 28 | Not long afterwards came another request , this time in a slightly more orthodox fashion , for John Ward to paint the Princess . |
| 29 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 30 | However , if a person " adversely possesses " the land for twelve years , the paper owner can not any longer enforce these rights against the occupier . |