Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then until the final three minutes rarely more than one basket separated the teams , as Tigers came back again , until Roberts scored and free-throws from Tom Seaman and Paul James gave Bracknell breathing space at 95-92 . |
| 2 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 3 | If there has to be a last minute addition to the contract after the document has been prepared and is awaiting exchange , it could be written into the draft contract before exchange , or some reference to it could be added to the contract so long as all that was done with the authority of the parties who signed it . |
| 4 | All except Lord Diplock ( and in this he positively disagreed ) held that the GLC had to have regard , when making a grant , to the LTE 's obligation to run its operations so far as practicable , on a break-even basis ; so the GLC could make grants to the LTE only to make good unavoidable losses and not to further a particular social policy . |
| 5 | In that year the Cohen Committee succinctly explained how this state of affairs had come about : ‘ [ t ] he illusory nature of the control theoretically exercised by the shareholders over directors has been accentuated by the dispersion of capital among an increasing number of small shareholders who pay little attention to their investments so long as satisfactory dividends are forthcoming , who lack sufficient time , money and experience to make full use of their rights as occasion arises and who are , in many cases , too numerous and too widely dispersed to be able to organise themselves ’ . |
| 6 | Nor was there any change so far as mandatory life sentences were concerned in the 1987 statement . |
| 7 | Candidates are awarded credit for individual areas of study as these are completed , and no time limit applies to the length of time it may take to complete either the professional certificate or diploma programmes so long as these programmes are still offered by HCIMA . |
| 8 | This remains very largely the case so far as written questions are concerned . |
| 9 | A Cambridge mathematician , Michael Behrend , derived an ingenious formula which shows that sites will align by change much more than one would expect . |
| 10 | People throw all these trig functions at you now that 's not a very complicated trig function so far cos squared |
| 11 | In one sense , this can be read as the Eastern District 's response to the Ashby Committee 's vote of confidence in the WEA little more than three years before . |
| 12 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The lad was in non-League football little more than 12 months ago . |
| 14 | The important words so far as this appeal is concerned are the words ‘ any enactment or rule of law … restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . ’ |
| 15 | Do you think women are at a disadvantage so far as this computer age is concerned ? |
| 16 | It was suggested that the authorities tried to manipulate aggregate demand — primarily through fiscal policy — in order to achieve their desired combination of economic objectives but , because of the lags mentioned earlier , such policies exerted their full effect much later when economic conditions had changed as a result of the fluctuations in the business cycle . |
| 17 | The intention is thus to narrow the matters in dispute between the parties so far as possible and , in theory at least , to give both parties advance notice of what the other case is . |
| 18 | As long as you can stay reasonably flexible a well-planned interview structure will make comparisons between candidates much easier because all candidates will have been put through more or less the same hoops . |
| 19 | In any event , the courts now seem to take a softer line on police practice so far as this can be discerned from the undiscussed elements in cases that reach the law reports for other reasons . |
| 20 | After Aberdeen last week , we should have offered the fans much better than that . ’ |
| 21 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 22 | This variable shows a stable pattern of stratification according to social class except that one social group , the Lower-middle class , use in their more careful styles more rather than less of the high prestige variant than the status group immediately above them . |
| 23 | Although that would reduce the union block vote more drastically than other options , it would also give both sides a veto . |
| 24 | Much of the conversation had focused on the disastrous and pathetic effect upon the family of the civil unrest in Belfast and its function was plainly cathartic ; many recordings resembled therapy sessions more closely than sociolinguistic field tapes . |
| 25 | Predation experiments showed that when presented with a school of fry of mixed sizes , predators ate smaller fry more often than larger fry . |
| 26 | Finally , the restructuring school conceptualizes industry more clearly as capitalist . |
| 27 | Actually , a man greatly appreciates a woman who bears a lamp ; he depends on the feminine light more deeply than most men are willing to admit . |
| 28 | Norman MacCaig , one of Scotland 's finest modern poets , knows this area well ; and as a keen trout fisherman has explored Assynt more thoroughly than most . |
| 29 | One operator will , of course , accumulate flying hours on a particular type of aircraft more rapidly than another and the ‘ high time ’ aircraft are the most vulnerable . |
| 30 | Insofar as good credit scoring systems weigh up an individual 's characteristics and background in a way which truly and accurately does reflect wide experience of similar characteristics and background , these systems can discriminate between good and bad risks more reliably than non-scoring systems which make a more partial and subjective stab at the same target . |