Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We may have to wait for much more advanced technology before we can do that . |
2 | Now one in seven of all university applicants in the UK select Bristol among their choices , creating a situation in which 26,000 applications are now received for just over 2,000 places . |
3 | Devolved government in the form of Scottish and Welsh assemblies and regional government will make for much more open government than we have had in the past 12 years . |
4 | It was the sordid exhaustion of poverty , of overwork , of perpetual near-incarceration , of eternal nagging demands , and to be left alone just to sit for perhaps only five minutes in unthinking apathy was her sole remaining desire . |
5 | Gifts account for just over half the books received into the Library this year : 1455 out of a total of 2814 . |
6 | Buy-out/buy-in business now accounts for a quarter of investments made by venture capital funds , whereas the number of startups account for only approximately 13 per cent ( Table 7.11 ) . |
7 | The 20 to 30 per cent discounts offered by the superstores account for only around half of the US/UK price differential . |
8 | If a further control , such as social class , is added then interrelated controls can make the specifications very limited — the interviewer having to find two women aged 30 to 55 , of lower middle-class — towards the quota of 20. obviously , independent controls make life easier for interviewers , and interrelated controls make for more definitely representative samples . |
9 | Others joined for even more dubious reasons . |
10 | In many cases , the state of destination will either accept the classification of the state of origin , or waive any right it may have to reject the document under Article 4 , or simply serve the document as an act of goodwill even if the Convention is regarded as not strictly applicable . |
11 | Cases range from the severely handicapped person who may be physically helpless and incapable of coherent speech , to the highly acceptable , responsible person , earning a living , looking after themselves , obtaining considerable enjoyment from life and from relationships but generally regarded as not very bright . |
12 | Both states were regarded as not only undesirable but criminal : after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 , police prosecutions against homosexuals reached a peak in 1953/4 , while the scare headlines accorded by the press to the Clapham Common murder in the summer of 1953 lodged in the public 's heads the equation that people who wore Edwardian clothes would knife you at the drop of a hat . |
13 | However , the Prime Minister was pressing for even more positive action . |
14 | In 1922 the English critic James Agate was reminded of how totally uneducated the average cinema audience was by the fact that a rendering of Mendelssohn 's violin concerto between films received very full attention . |
15 | They opened up a lead of more than two minutes by Huddersfield , but were caught with just under 30 miles left . |
16 | The qualities have even been described as ‘ so vague as to be virtually meaningless , at least without being transposed into much more explicit features ’ ( Farmer , 1974 , p. 185 ) . |
17 | This raises the possibility that the genes present today in the chromosome of E. coli have not all been derived from the same ancestral population in the distant past — as have the genes of mice — but have come from very distantly related ancestors . |
18 | These show an accelerating rate of growth , not only in the rate of increase in VAT registered businesses , to a net average of 1,200 a week in the past year — 50 per cent up on the previous year — but also in the self-employed , who rose from just under two million to more than three million . |
19 | The new Association is best seen not so much as a pressure group founded to further the professional interests of teachers of English , but rather as a class-based mobilization which drew in not only most professors of English Language and Literature , but also like-minded politicians , administrators , and " men of letters " . |
20 | Leakages of saving , taxation , and imports will fall as income declines until once again total leakages equal total injections . |
21 | The depopulation has been frightening : between 1856 and 1975 the population of the Baronnies dropped from just over 10,000 to just under 3,000 , and those who are left are not prosperous . |
22 | The operative he had come in especially early that morning to contact . |
23 | I never knew anything about the facts of life — I did n't know until far too late . |
24 | He was under arrest and confined in even more disagreeable circumstances in a male prison . |
25 | As a percentage of joint gross national product ( GNP ) this represented an increase from the existing ceiling of 1.2 per cent ( although 1992 expenditure was calculated to come to only around 1.14 per cent ) to 1.27 per cent by 1999 . |
26 | Annual money wage increases rose to about twice those of the mid-fifties , and product wages ( real wages in terms of the product ) accelerated as well . |
27 | When she 'd finished it she moved on more slowly this time , stopping twice for a fit of coughing . |
28 | Salt occurs naturally in many foods and is added to even quite basic foods such as bread , so there is no need to add extra salt in cooking , or to food at the table . |
29 | Traditionally , phonemes were supposed not to overlap in their allophones , so that the only plosives that could have allophones with bilabial place of articulation were and ; this restriction is no longer looked on as so important . |
30 | When asking guest Medau Teachers to teach at rallies please check that she holds own private insurance cover otherwise let the Office know at once so that cover can be arranged for her . |