Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 2 | Overall , in Britain , more than one in three of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot and pedestrian journeys of half a mile or less make up one-sixth of total personal transport demand . |
| 3 | Monetarist theory argues that the two lines on the graph should more or less coincide over long periods , showing that any increase in the money stock in excess of that needed to finance real output growth will be dissipated in price rises . |
| 4 | If your lounge is equipped with batteries of spot-lamps and other sophisticated facilities , you could spend an hour or so trying out all kinds of variations before arriving at the best effect . |
| 5 | Even if the Z88 is asleep , it will wake every minute or so to carry out various housekeeping tasks ( checking the alarms , for example ) . |
| 6 | And er I told them that er I was n't p p p prepared er because they was there during the day as well , it did n't used to across to catch the school bus , and be half a dozen or so come back next door , and stop there till about twenty past three then go back , come back over as if he 's got out the bus . |
| 7 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 8 | Do n't forget membership of the Squash Club also provides you with full membership of the Sportcentre , and therefore allows you to utilise all its facilities , whether it be the new 2nd Nature Gymnasia , the sauna , or just trying out some of the many activities available at the centre . |
| 9 | It seems the original X Consortium , scheduled to get a new director in January and slowly dissociate itself from MIT over the next year , is n't evolving fast enough into a fleet-footed marketing vehicle or even churning out saleable technology quickly enough to suit everybody . |
| 10 | We can only guess whether inter-racial bickering — or even rows over bad food ! — might explain such a bizarre two days ' events . |
| 11 | The court may not be stipulating a particular substantive conclusion ; it may however be explicitly or implicitly ruling out certain options by the way in which it addresses and answers the preceding issues . |
| 12 | From there she 'd be able to go down to the lakeside if she chose , or else pick up one of the shore paths that would take her further into the valley . |
| 13 | At the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge , Dr Martin Wolfe is mixing different genetic lines of a cereal crop to create ‘ multilines ’ that effectively break up vast tracks of a single crop , which normally present the pest with a continuous sea of susceptible hosts . |
| 14 | But often , feminist psychologists draw parallels between the status of ‘ women ’ and ‘ black people ’ : a comparison that effectively leaves out black women . |
| 15 | The Vauxhall ( remember it 's actually an Opel ) suffers from ugly digital gauges that are often hard to interpret and a digital speedometer that only reads in even numbers . |
| 16 | As the pain became more intense there was less and less space for his mind to wander over things , undone things that suddenly took on ridiculous and unrealistic urgency , but his thoughts were still churning with his innards and he could not keep out stray fragments of enacted scenes any more than he could stop the brilliant black fish from swimming in the air past his eyes . |
| 17 | Older people are more susceptible to cold , in part because information from the brain in response to a lower blood temperature and a cool skin is acted upon less readily by the systems in the body that normally carry out those instructions . |
| 18 | There was nothing at all in his touch but kindness and efficiency but she had to bite into her lip to stifle the urge to stroke the dark head that bent close to her and his hands on her skin sent melting sensations through her that utterly drowned out any slight pain from the sharp stones . |
| 19 | Bull differentiates its approach saying it concentrates on getting the best business productivity from information technology installations , rather than just scaling down bad jobs . |
| 20 | The attack , in other words , is far more subtle than just pointing out any supposed physical resemblance between Miller and myself . |
| 21 | It was 30-year-old Freeman 's stunning last-minute goal that finally killed off any hopes of a Chester comeback . |
| 22 | One useful trick that often comes in handy is to convert an entire spreadsheet to values . |
| 23 | What the cynics overlook , however , is that when Brittain tilts at windmills , it is the windmills that frequently come off second best . |
| 24 | But when the make do and mend clubs were told that even worn out soft collars and shirt cuffs would make maps for tank commanders , they responded well and over a thousand tons of rag was collected between nineteen forty two and nineteen forty three . |
| 25 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 26 | In the next over , Derek Pringle claimed his third wicket of the innings when Paul Johnson went to cut a delivery that again got up higher than anticipated . |
| 27 | Experiences in a depersonalized family in childhood that subsequently bring about this readiness for schizoid withdrawal are re-awakened in a social situation that is depersonalizing . |
| 28 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 29 | For thousands of years the ocean had worked at the chalk cliffs and eventually brought down these trees , and because the place was so isolated and difficult to reach , the branches had escaped use as firewood . |
| 30 | The also the big rotary blades on 'em are throwing all the grass over the pavement and all over the road and eventually finishes up all down the drains . |