Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crédits mobiliers were the rage , at least until the Rothschilds won their battle with the Pereires and — as also often happens in boom periods — some operators ventured a little too far across the always hazy frontier between business optimism and fraud . |
| 2 | The vision of delinquents as a different species of being threatening society provided a potentially much more unfettered entitlement to take action against them than was allowable under Beccaria 's version of the social contract that underpinned the classical theory . |
| 3 | And though some reports , particularly from higher officials , absurdly continued to state that the belief in the Führer , despite all setbacks , had not diminished , SD regional and local reports provided a much more devastatingly realistic impression of the Hitler image in the last phase of the war . |
| 4 | Wherever one turns there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of old-fashioned roses and Piranesi urns , most of which are mounded and framed a little more elaborately , shall we say , than their modest charms seem to merit . |
| 5 | Very rarely a dead animal or plant fossilizes , and it is then sometimes possible to see progressive stages in an animal arms race a little more directly . |
| 6 | ‘ The scales will have tipped a little farther over . |
| 7 | By the end of 1978 , the ayatollah had come to be seen , by many of these Western intellectuals interested in Iran , as a saintly old man who was determined to establish a far more just , democratic and 'spiritual " regime than that run by the cruel , corrupt and despotic Shah . |
| 8 | we 'll be going back to the Manor Ground a little later on to find out the winner in our manager competition . |
| 9 | Only his finger moved a little more slowly along the line . |
| 10 | In the 1880s and 90s the state moved a little more decisively into the fields of housing , factory reform , and public health . |
| 11 | The Lewis camp must learn to box a little more cleverly outside the ring or forfeit any hope of the undisputed championship . |
| 12 | This subject will be considered a little more fully below . |
| 13 | That the question is not an idle one can be seen if one looks a little more closely at the second of our two examples . |
| 14 | To understand Homoeopathy we must consider a little more deeply and look at the situation afresh . |
| 15 | However those who were present did their best to entertain and possibly tried a little too hard in some cases . |
| 16 | Perhaps he had not said to himself that in a marriage between two like this , someone was going to have to know a little less clearly what they had wanted . |
| 17 | But the consensus is that Commander Tim Laurence probably has a little more upstairs than the man he has replaced in Princess Anne 's affections , Captain Mark Phillips . |
| 18 | IBM already has a very modestly parallel four-CPU system , the Shared Memory System Power/4 , available on special bid since December 1 . |
| 19 | Company 2 has a much more rapidly declining experience curve and is increasing its margins . |
| 20 | Of the related species , N.lamellosa often has a much more elaborately fluted shell ( fig.16 ) , although smooth-shelled populations also occur-see fig.34 . |
| 21 | Blacks , on the other hand , harbour a much more narrowly defined set of possibilities on how they might advance . |
| 22 | ‘ At the northern end of the works area is the gas works , the railway tracks passing a little further on and terminating near the viaduct , these lines forming storage lines for materials and for general purposes . |
| 23 | So I do think that the , I do n't think it actually does necessarily come down to glossy brochures , but I think it is a management attitude erm , in terms of mark developing a very much more pro-active marketing approach to going out and competing aggressively in the market place for the contracts . |
| 24 | The differences between the painters appear to have been purely personal , but Delaunay had also moved away from the other Cubists in his works of 1912 , and , using his Cubist researches as a point of departure , was developing a much more purely abstract kind of painting with colour as its principal element . |
| 25 | All these matters show that it is a vexed question when exactly there will be a change in the regime and that is a question I shall seek to answer a little later on . |
| 26 | I might be able to fetch my things from Crow Court where I am rooming a little later on , but as to work … ’ |
| 27 | Or members imbibed a little too enthusiastically and had to be helped into a taxi . |
| 28 | In this chapter we are looking a little more closely at speech , the ‘ twin ’ of speechreading . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ? |
| 30 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |