Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 2 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Pettersson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways … ’ |
| 4 | Diana has a duty to bring up her own children and give them as normal a life as possible for as long as possible . |
| 5 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 6 | ‘ That was believed important , for with the Enchantment useless , we knew that we had to keep the Wolfline alive for as long as we could . |
| 7 | The black tarred roof had been ‘ like that for as long as I can remember . ’ |
| 8 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 9 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 10 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 11 | I want you to try and do that for as long as you can , the person 's who 's trying to take them off it you try and take them off that point as long as you can , the other person stick to your guns , okay ? |
| 12 | And I think Peter 's been saying this for almost well since he 's come back anyway that , I ca n't work because the stock figures have not been updated . |
| 13 | Baffled Lilly , from Anfield , Liverpool , added : ‘ I 've been like this for as long as I can remember . |
| 14 | The boys stood this for as long as was decent , and then , after a particularly heavy blow to the head , the brothers grabbed the Bosnian refugee by both feet and up-ended him over the sand . |
| 15 | We ca n't go on doing this for ever so that we support Heathrow terminal five , they support the second runway at Stansted . |
| 16 | ‘ He was the only one of the Carry On team who was funny off as well as on film . |
| 17 | That same prize will elude the British for as long as they yearn for it publicly . |
| 18 | That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her . |
| 19 | The adulterer is the cause of this in so far as his/her act has allowed a superhuman being to attack the spouse . |
| 20 | Territory has a particular kind of significance in all this in so far as these young people are reasserting their lost solidarity and independence through literally ‘ winning space ’ : claiming particular territories to be ‘ theirs ’ . |
| 21 | The position is different in so far as it affects the duty solicitor scheme . |
| 22 | ( b ) by finding that a domestic statute passed prior to entry is repealed by implication by the European Communities Act 1972 in so far as it fails to accord with our community obligations and thus does not represent the latest intention of Parliament ; |
| 23 | In Hilton it represents stages in the journey to God when the soul is no longer engaged with worldly things and as it were asleep to sin ( 24.90r. – 235 ) but is not yet fully illuminated by the knowledge of Christ : The experience of the dark can be either painful or restful : painful in so far as the soul is still troubled by the pressures of the worldly attractions from which it is hiding ; or restful in so far as the soul is waiting untroubled in its longing for Christ . |
| 24 | Leave this on as long as possible for maximum results . |
| 25 | I will post this at once so that you will have it by tomorrow 's first post . |
| 26 | I just wish the Tories had some fresh ideas , precious few around as far as I can see . |
| 27 | It seems apparent that this was a very long process in the Sussex area ; some scholars have argued that the Germanic groups stayed much more distinct for far longer than their counterparts elsewhere in the new England . |
| 28 | My father is an educated man , and he passed a lot of what he already knew on to me , as well as doing a fair bit of study himself into areas he did n't know all that much about just so that he could teach me . |
| 29 | I 've been impotent for as long as I can remember . |
| 30 | MEN-HUNGRY Californians are flocking to enrol in special aerobics classes set up to beat flabby backsides — after a survey showed that many guys rated a pert behind as highly as a pretty face . |