Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While his father , Erlend , and his uncle , Paul , got on well together as joint earls of Orkney , their sons became rivals and enemies . |
| 2 | If it goes on any longer than that they get bored and spoil what they 've done . |
| 3 | I was determined to carry on as normally as I could . ’ |
| 4 | A fair bit of pressure is needed to get the chips securely seated and a broken motherboard tends to perform rather more slowly than a complete one ! |
| 5 | The men and women of Mandru 's household interacted rather more freely than was common among the upper class of Shanariah . |
| 6 | I like the fact that we sold enough records to go on there even if the event was a little embarrassing . ’ |
| 7 | Whereas the serial usage of Example 139 ( the same series in each voice ) easily avoids the occurrence of octaves , octaves are formed only too easily when we use different forms together , as on the second quaver of the last bar , where all voices sound D or E♭ . |
| 8 | Local government capital expenditure is ‘ cash limited ’ , but current expenditure is cash limited only as far as the overall total of the Rate Support Grant ( RSG ) 3 is concerned . |
| 9 | We need to go only as far as eqn ( 2.21 ) . |
| 10 | Pricing restraints are treated much more harshly than non-price restraints . |
| 11 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 12 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 13 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 14 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 15 | Everyone got down very quickly as another shell exploded in the front garden of a cottage across the road . |
| 16 | However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential . |
| 17 | In practice , this situation will arise only very rarely if a regime of symptom control and no more has been adopted . |
| 18 | The outer scales lifted in the process of penetration are not always smoothed down again completely when you change hair colour or texture , and this causes porosity . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 20 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 21 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 22 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 23 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , many people seem to take it as a personal insult ( on behalf of their garden ) if one says that there are n't really any plants or flowers worth pressing , so to prevent any hurt feelings I usually try to pick a few items that are possible candidates for pressing , which seems to go down much better than completely refusing someone 's kind offer . |
| 25 | Bearing in mind that there 's something like forty companies chasing about eighteen percent of this market , do you honestly feel that your advertising revenue is going to go down as quickly as feel if you want to try and keep ahead of the the pack and keep up with the leaders . |
| 26 | But — there it was , and I began to go down as quickly as possible but with difficulty , for there was almost a metre between rungs . |
| 27 | After 0/30 , it is not wise to go down as far as 6C or 30C . |
| 28 | It seemed to go down all right so he cleared his throat . |
| 29 | It goes together as simply as a child 's building blocks |
| 30 | David asked if I could jive and at this particular time I always dressed as a man , which was probably another reason Calvin and I got along very well because Calvin wore velvet suits and I wore velvet suits — so that was one area we got on very well . |