Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've no problems to report on either or trains . |
| 2 | I know George and Steven got on well and George would have been delighted to have seen this happy day . |
| 3 | The McLaren girl did not answer right away and Mrs. Favor leaned towards the girl . |
| 4 | KEVIN KEEGAN 'S Geordie dream lived on yesterday as Newcastle won their ninth successive match and opened up a five-point lead at the top of the First Division . |
| 5 | Joseph Hanway in 1766 observed that the " mass of people " lived on less than £5 a year , and considered that when provision prices were " moderate " , husbandmen supported a family of three or four children on 1s to 1s 6d ( 5-7½p ) a day . |
| 6 | Despite the spread of private pensions , 75 per cent of pensioners lived on less than £3,500 a year . |
| 7 | Ironically , too , it could turn out that much less goes on physically when John sees Mary and tells Dick about it , than when John gives Mary a black eye that tells Dick of his blow . |
| 8 | Dr Roy Brown estimates that 12,000 hectares of moorland in the North York Moors National Park is not grazed intensively enough because farmers are reducing sheep flocks . |
| 9 | Different rates of use are expected of ‘ serious , and ‘ recreational ’ fiction — and within these groupings certain types of works ( e.g. Bulgarian novels in translation ) must be expected to issue less frequently than others ( e.g. novels by Graham Greene ) . |
| 10 | The Saturday afternoon was drawing in now and Carrie looked out through the partly drawn curtains at the dark , rolling clouds . |
| 11 | Perhaps you 'd like to sit down rather than sort of hover at the back , it 's up to you entirely but you may feel that you 're slightly uncomfortable . |
| 12 | Equally problematic is Morgan 's other assumption : that systems of kinship terms change less easily than marriage systems , and that kinship terms can serve as an indication of what the marriage system was like in the past . |
| 13 | Cranston gazed quizzically back and Athelstan grinned . |
| 14 | Leonora , afraid he 'd been about to order her to bed , assented so rapturously that Penry eyed her in amusement as he crossed to the stairs . |
| 15 | The situation is saved : HAMLET , escorted , is marched in just as CLAUDIUS leaves . |
| 16 | And he says : ‘ I got in only because Ian was hurt , but I have to put sentiment aside and think of Kevin Campbell . ’ |
| 17 | You do n't want to start by bellowing so loudly that people shrink in alarm . |
| 18 | Where disabled persons are treated less favourably than others because they can not comply with a requirement with which a substantially higher proportion of non-disabled persons can comply , and the requirement is not justifiable in the circumstances , indirect discrimination will arise . |
| 19 | The problem of dieting without increased physical activity is that the BMR slows down rather than speeds up . |
| 20 | The eventual pensions received by women who participated in these inter-war schemes would have reflected their low and unequal pay as well as conditions of service which typically required women to retire much earlier than men , especially in private sector employment . |
| 21 | I took the view , shared by counsel , that no similar privilege was justified so far as copyright was concerned . |
| 22 | It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went . |
| 23 | In the case of Penge , apart from one low and narrow railway bridge , there was no difficulty with narrow roads , since Penge had been developed much later than Croydon and its main roads were of ample width . |
| 24 | No problem arose so far as NHS general practitioners were concerned , except a very powerful dispute about the level of the compensation of junior doctors ; but with the consultants it was another story . |
| 25 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 26 | The concept tends to fall down slightly when variations are required . |
| 27 | Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform . |
| 28 | It matters little now that Sunderland finished the season 18th in the Second Division . |
| 29 | They moved on again and Timothy Gedge went with them , swinging his carrier-bag . |
| 30 | So far , tropical moist forests provide little more than 10% of the total wood used as solid wood and pulp , but as temperate forests become depleted or increasingly under pressure of the ‘ environmental ’ lobby to be managed for functions other than production , attention will inevitably be focused on the tropical resources . |