Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 2 | But selling Beatles records was the easy part , since EMI Records basically still did all the distribution work . |
| 3 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 4 | In one long experiment a woman and bottlenose dolphin lived together constantly fur several months . |
| 5 | The odd couple got together yesterday to urge all slap-happy mums and dads to ‘ count to ten and think again ’ . |
| 6 | Alaska has rarely decisively elected any mainstream candidate . |
| 7 | On many occasions I have heard environmentalists say that they do not wish to be ‘ tarred by the same brush ’ which has so comprehensively covered some extremists in the Animal Rights Movement and which has brought that movement into disrepute . |
| 8 | Research in the social sciences as a whole has so far done little to establish the relative strength of the effects of past and present on self-esteem . |
| 9 | During the day he can often be seen looking like an overgrown pit pony in a thin , rather dirty New Zealand rug which has so far survived all his attempts at removal . |
| 10 | Liquid stool incontinence has so far received little attention . |
| 11 | While the diesel option has become popular among owners of off-roaders like the Discovery and the Mitsubishi Shogun , it has so far made little progress in the executive car class . |
| 12 | Although her twenty-six-year-old boyfriend has an income from his job managing a shop , he has so far taken little interest and no responsibility for her or the baby . |
| 13 | He has so far helped some 15 people on their way . |
| 14 | We will safeguard the abatement negotiated by Mrs Thatcher which has so far brought some £12,000 million in budget rebates to Britain . |
| 15 | The truth is that the East German leadership has so far shown all too few signs of wanting to change . |
| 16 | While SunNet Manager is widely used in local network-based and local network interconnect environments , it has so far had little support in wide area networking and telecommunications , where Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView is seen to have won greater interest . |
| 17 | While SunNet Manager is widely used in local network-based and local network interconnect environments , it has so far had little support in wide area networking and telecommunications , where Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView is seen to have won greater interest . |
| 18 | The negotiations — and with them USL 's desire to conserve cash and pretty up its balance sheet as much as possible — might explain why it has so far put little muscle into marketing Destiny since its announcement in June ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ No prospect of the green shoots of economic recovery ’ , said Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson ; ‘ new hardcover literary fiction , unless by well-established authors , will sell , if that is possible , even fewer copies , to the point of virtual extinction ’ , said Tom Rosenthal ; ‘ fiction … has long since become all by a branch of gynaecology ’ , said Colin Haycraft . |
| 20 | The whole PWL format has long since lost any spark of life and songs like ‘ Too Much Of A Good Thing ’ and ‘ Finer Feelings ’ are simply uninspiring , totally predictable and tedious . |
| 21 | ( An annual outing to the seaside has long ago displaced this occasion . ) |
| 22 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 23 | ‘ Indeed , Gwynedd County Council originally opposed the restoration of the Ffestiniog , and has only recently shown any inclination to approve the full restoration of the Welsh Highland Railway . ’ |
| 24 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 25 | We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity . |
| 26 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 27 | The company has reportedly had more success with another product , KLEA-134a , which does not contain chlorine , does not attack the ozone layer and has thus far passed all toxicity tests . |
| 28 | Other reports implicating the Iranian government itself in the assassination were denied on Aug. 12 by a Foreign Ministry spokesman who said that " Iran has always strongly condemned any terrorist act " . |
| 29 | Sam put the besom to work and Evelyn tried once more to shift that awful basket . |
| 30 | It shows that Labour , despite the recession and abandoning many Left-wing policies , has still not made any significant advance with the voters . |