Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dependence on each of these drugs was also recognized rather slowly and perhaps reluctantly . |
| 2 | This finding has an anatomical correlate : the dendritic fields of cells in the octopus optic lobe tend to be elliptical with their major axis oriented predominantly horizontally or vertically . |
| 3 | Progressive ‘ improvement ’ of the kind suggested by the arms-race image does go on , even if it goes on spasmodically and interruptedly ; even if its net rate of progress is too slow to be detected within the lifetime of a man , or even within the timespan of recorded history . |
| 4 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 5 | His energy just left him and he became slowly more and more bitter . ’ |
| 6 | This may prove a major challenge to clinicians expecting to carry on much as before . |
| 7 | And it 's Abingdon street fair , the High Street and Ock Street are closed , and that 's er , traffic 's been diverted locally today and tomorrow . |
| 8 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 9 | Please remember that life has to go on abroad as well as at home . |
| 10 | Mr Landon also argues that the problem goes much deeper than just testing but begins when children are first identified as having a problem . |
| 11 | Scottish Amicable 's partnership with J. Rothschild Assurance goes much deeper than purely processing the business for the Company . |
| 12 | Griselda Pollock , in her provocative article in this issue of Woman 's Art Magazine , goes much further than simply retrieving one Old Mistress . |
| 13 | I have to sit down now and then . |
| 14 | More than once she has been asked , without prior warning , to sit down there and then and play an instrument — usually for a film sequence — and she always complies without a flicker of nerves . |
| 15 | He argued so acutely and convincingly that each party hoped for victory when it heard him arguing on its behalf and there was no advocate who appeared before him who did not greatly fear his cross-examination and interventions . |
| 16 | One owner describes this ‘ cold shoulder treatment ’ in the following words : ‘ He turns his back , sits down neatly and deliberately , and wo n't answer if we call his name as he usually does , though he sometimes puts one ear back . ’ |
| 17 | Aaron lent modest sums to the Crown over the next ten years , but took no part in the London-based consortia of Jewish lenders which lent so heavily and disastrously to the Crown in 1177 . |
| 18 | She was just about to go inside again when over to her right , by the high stone wall that marked the boundary of the Roscarrock estate , she heard a single , high-pitched whistle , and looking round she saw a face observing her from the other side . |
| 19 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 20 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 21 | His room in Leeds was with a Mrs Hubble at 21 Ladysmith Road , and on the return journey he had stopped only once and again at the Merrie England . |
| 22 | I 've got to drive down there and back up here , then I 've got to go to Darren 's then I 've |
| 23 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 24 | If conditions change only locally and temporarily then only individual differences will result , but , Darwin concludes , if conditions change overall and permanently then a new species will eventually be formed . |
| 25 | It is often the case that the quality of the documents produced by someone adopting desktop publishing goes down rather than up . |
| 26 | The next day belonged to Devon Malcolm , a man who came into the Test team a few months earlier against Australia with a reputation for being able to bowl extremely quickly but rarely accurately , who , with less than perfect eyesight , was a total rabbit with the bat , and who could be a joke as a fielder . |
| 27 | Rather than spend eight hours a day gathering firewood , they will conserve fuel by cooking less frequently or more communally . |
| 28 | The canal cut through that flat , agricultural landscape , its monotony broken only here and there by a farmhouse or a barn , until the closed Lock gates dammed it up . |
| 29 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 30 | At the same time the government did not push its reforms as far as some supporters wished ; it did not , for example , place the onus on union members to contract in rather than out of paying the political levy and has done little to break down national wage bargaining which pays little attention to different local labour market conditions . |