Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Rainbow would prefer right now this minute , but plays it cool . |
| 4 | No no but it goes somewhere near half way I mean |
| 5 | Cos what we have heard so far this morning is certainly placing me in all of the local authority . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | A hundred thousand homes have been repossessed so far this year . |
| 8 | Production expanded so rapidly that home supplies of wool were insufficient , and imports from Australia and South America increased . |
| 9 | When you have gathered together as much information as possible you set about defining your client 's image . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ If we win there before 2041 I 'll have to regard it as a bonus , ’ joked Wilkinson , frustrated at the way his players have failed to perform so often this season . |
| 13 | Goran 's two tournaments wins so far this year prove that he 's more than just a serving machine . |
| 14 | But world markets can absorb only so much coffee , copper and cotton , or for that matter T-shirts , motor-bikes and transistors . |
| 15 | She 's arranged so much this time . ’ |
| 16 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 17 | Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men . |
| 18 | They can go into the furtherance of a chosen goal , and here something of the difference between the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ and the male hunter can be glimpsed , for whereas a man may wrestle openly with every difficulty on the way , women can use more precision and grace , choosing moments with care , sensing the atmosphere , and employing only as much force as is necessary . |
| 19 | ‘ The balls fly so far these days that Hell 's been taken out of play . |
| 20 | If only his head did not ache so badly that thought seemed driven out by the throbbing . |
| 21 | The messenger moved so fast that Huy barely saw the club as it swung through the air at his throat . |
| 22 | Once Univel softens up the marketplace and the marketplace protests that it has only so much money and ca n't possibly buy both NetWare and UnixWare , poof , Univel is integrated back into Novell . |
| 23 | Trading so far this year is up and the board expects ‘ another year of good growth . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm glad young people do n't have to go to work so early these days , but for many of my generation , it was the accepted way of life , and most of them were happy in it . |
| 25 | I am , however , rather pleased that my crystal ball behaved so well this year . |
| 26 | Now a Greek team , headed by Professor Cesar Alexopoulos , of Athens University , has developed a technique which seems to provide just that much warning — at least for earthquakes that have hit Greece repeatedly over the past two years . |
| 27 | A venture like that needs just as much planning , evaluation , preparation and practice as the international championship . |
| 28 | Having a meal out , especially if you eat out a lot , needs just as much care and good sense as planning a meal in . |
| 29 | However , every state has just as many parents as children , so searching backwards wo n't help . |
| 30 | ( The USSR , with one-tenth as many motor vehicles as the United States , has just as many traffic fatalities ) . |