Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They produced rather more appetising food than the normal congealed heap of pie and beans and dead sausage rolls which it is mandatory to decline at other resorts . |
| 2 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 3 | Macaulay was attributing rather too much blame to Frederick II of Prussia when he wrote ‘ in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend , black men fought on the coast of Coromandel , and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America . ’ |
| 4 | including most notably Local Management of Schools ( LMS ) combine to give governors duties , responsibilities and powers far greater than any previously envisaged . |
| 5 | Rainbow would prefer right now this minute , but plays it cool . |
| 6 | No no but it goes somewhere near half way I mean |
| 7 | He is putting more structure into his clothes and using rather more natural fibres than man-made miracle fabrics . |
| 8 | Cos what we have heard so far this morning is certainly placing me in all of the local authority . |
| 9 | At 6 he was dispatched to a school at Great Dunham kept by the rector , Richard Ransome , where he remained , enjoying only very brief holidays , until he went to Eton ; nor did he go home for all of his holidays . |
| 10 | The extra expense of making these sections is offset by their versatility : an uncovered DPT can be used for several different analytical purposes , and offers much more petrographic information . |
| 11 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Decided to give up vomiting ; binged three times 2–3 Noticed that when stressed by children she turned to food and binged 4–5 Binged only once each week 6–7 Returned home and observed how she wanted to please her parents 8–9 On holiday , eating three meals a day — discovered she did not put on weight . |
| 12 | Um nevertheless er there 's a fundamental distinction made by most authors that to include children , to include apparently emotionally immature people , in sexual relationships as you would with adults is is fundamentally abusive . |
| 13 | They are consequently able to flow only very short distances before they solidify . |
| 14 | A hundred thousand homes have been repossessed so far this year . |
| 15 | In contrast a sub-genre such as domestic tragedy , of which the Renaissance period is filled with wonderfully rich examples , receives much less critical attention than those tragedies which deal with kings . |
| 16 | Production expanded so rapidly that home supplies of wool were insufficient , and imports from Australia and South America increased . |
| 17 | Kuwait , with a capacity of 2,000,000 bpd before the Iraqi occupation and subsequent fire damage , was thought to be producing only about 500,000 bpd , but planned to increase its output to 900,000 bpd by June 1992 and to 1,500,000 bpd by the end of the year as most of its fire-damaged wells came back on stream . |
| 18 | When you have gathered together as much information as possible you set about defining your client 's image . |
| 19 | I , I think Chairman that as , as we come out of the recession an and th that the overall erm level er quantity of development taking place increases , then we are almost bound to see perhaps more affordable housing erm in absolute terms , although I do n't see any opportunity of there being a a major hiccup in proportional terms , so I , I , like you , I think I remain er pessimistic er regarding the , the , the overview , although we might see er a turning up of the er of the graph having been bumping along the bottom for a little time a little while . |
| 20 | We will ensure that a number of carefully selected children from poor homes , including perhaps even some children or grandchildren of immigrants , are allowed to succeed at school , and to go to university . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the usual thing , gathering together enough financial resources to continue for the coming year . |
| 22 | Probably most languages grammaticalize at least a distinction between proximal ( or close to speaker ) and distal ( or non-proximal , sometimes close to addressee ) , but many make much more elaborate distinctions as we shall see . |
| 23 | " The Giant Awakes " ( Chapter 5 ) is a good example of a highly prescriptive opening which is then used to stimulate much more open-ended work . |
| 24 | Clearly , so long as ministerial assurances are honoured , rate-capping can deliver only very limited reductions in total local authority expenditure . |
| 25 | It would not be practical to attempt to list all the fund raising activities that have been undertaken so far this year but I would like to pick out some highlights for you . |
| 26 | The third , following work of Al-Mathami , builds somewhat more elaborate trees which can predict properties of examples which are not completely described . |
| 27 | Individually the trusts were small , usually maintaining only about 20 miles of road , but as they were formed and linked , the basis for a coherent road network was being established . |
| 28 | In addition to the immediately obvious atmospheric hazards it was possible to include less immediately obvious ones associated with volcanoes ( Clapperton , 1972 ) and earthquakes . |
| 29 | Mr Stewart said events like Europartenariat — a European Community initiative aimed at bringing together over 1,000 companies to form trading links — were important as it could help Scottish companies implement their European strategies by meeting potential business partners . |
| 30 | An Assembly of Citizens of the Russian Federation , bringing together about 4,000 Yeltsin supporters , met on April 5 . |