Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is past the menopause and she and Abraham have long since given up sexual intercourse . |
| 2 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |
| 3 | He lay on the examination couch , and his left cheek was badly grazed down one side . |
| 4 | We have successfully carried out this procedure in 18 patients . |
| 5 | Properties Limited , the developer , is a wholly owned yet independent company within the Guardian Royal Exchange Group , one of the United Kingdoms largest insurance companies . |
| 6 | AFTER viewing the frequent unsuccessful lbw appeals during the Headingley Test , I think it is worth reminding umpires of a rarely considered yet obvious fact . |
| 7 | Patients were disimpacted and then treated with dietary fibre and daily milk of magnesia , and the laxative was slowly discontinued once normal bowel movements had been accomplished . |
| 8 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 9 | An artist has perhaps given as much time to a single major work as a composer might have given to a sonata or whatever it may be . |
| 10 | Organised by the Merseyside Training Partnership the conference , says chairman Ray O'Connor , ‘ offers businesses the opportunity to gain expert advice from training professionals all gathered under one roof . ’ |
| 11 | The alienation of groups among the younger voters has perhaps received too much publicity but it is an attitude which is shared to some degree by other sections of the community . |
| 12 | ‘ This only aroused so much attention because of the press reports that we were meeting the Broederbond . ’ |
| 13 | I myself have long given up any hope of a more permanent relationship . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps the reason that tail shapes have wrongly received so much attention in the past is that they are the most obviously visible difference between boards . |
| 15 | It was not outsiders who began and brutally carried on this war . |
| 16 | Fashions in dress and diet , ceremonies and customs , art and architecture , engineering and technology , all evolve in historical time in a way that looks like highly speeded up genetic evolution , but has really nothing to do with genetic evolution . |
| 17 | I did n't know what crows ate , so picked up some cabbage leaves and a lump of congealed moussaka from a dish in the Corporal 's kitchen . |
| 18 | These are questions which were first posed over fifty years ago , but they have obviously made little lasting impact on a literature where the expenditure flows depicted in elaborations of the model have been the principal focus of attention . |
| 19 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 20 | Only moved there last month or so Doctor , |
| 21 | Yeah I mean we do get people who come in on the sort of the Friday morning and they 've already got their done their business perhaps sought out professional advice elsewhere |
| 22 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 23 | During the Hussite period the church was used as a meat store and so suffered relatively little damage . |
| 24 | ‘ We had all risen early this morning . |
| 25 | Chris was stunning in a green Chinese-style gown with a long slit up one side . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've only got so much will-power . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The catch in this heaven , ’ she went on , ‘ is that the brain has only got so much dopamine to offer , and once the cocaine has used it all up , then that 's the end of the pleasure . |
| 28 | I told her she could have my one cos it only had that much ink in it . |
| 29 | that was war time and , and there 's the petrol , there was no , well a squeeze on petrol , you know , you 'd perhaps had just enough petrol to do some jobs where you could use the horse and cart down the |
| 30 | ‘ As a family , ’ she put in , ‘ we 've all got very good sight … . ’ |