Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Those who live in houses with thick walls or use a machine in an outbuilding are very fortunate because they can knit all day and use the garter carriage at night , or make twice as many pieces by leaving the garter carriage to knit day and night .
2 Effective study does not mean reading twice as fast ( one measure of efficiency ) or writing twice as much in a given time period ( another measure of output over input ) .
3 They either have to take too much of the risk themselves , or give away too much of their potential reward .
4 In such conditions you can fish the river as if it were a canal , with very little weight either spread equally down the line , or grouped just below half way with a dropper about twelve inches above the hook .
5 It 's different hiring people here too : everybody has a contract that specifies exactly how many hours they have to work , length of vacations everything ’ .
6 this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support .
7 The target was a craft that cost half as much as the SR.N6 to buy .
8 Customers are also scared off by prices , he added , because some of them still believe that fault-tolerance means simply installing two machines that cost twice as much .
9 And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models .
10 Shelley was laughing now , feeling that ease that happened more frequently these days , the ease that came when they were together and became , quite suddenly and pleasantly , totally relaxed with each other .
11 Her Roman nose , and eyes that showed far too much of the whites , continually reminded her owner what a disappointment she was .
12 The dominant trade was the production and processing of woollen cloth , crafts that engaged well over half the adult male population at the end of the Elizabethan era .
13 A profile that provides far too many irrelevant references is of little use ; such lists normally find their way into a wastepaper basket because the user sees that they are full of irrelevant material and is not prepared to search through them hoping to find some relevant references .
14 Siemens ' machines automatically weigh your wash load and judge exactly how much water is needed .
15 So far we have assumed that we understand the suggestion that there are minds other than our own , and asked merely how much evidence we have in its favour .
16 He cuddled her and felt the bump in a way that made her uneasy as to the propriety of it and asked constantly how this baby was to climb out .
17 what , what I hope we 'll do next week is to , is to take that idea up and to see maybe why this policy came through erm and we 'll look at the , like the arithmetic of that as to , as to how much money there was , how much land there was in fact .
18 Holly had talked with the old man and realized only later that when he spoke all those who were within earshot had listened and tried to learn about him from his words .
19 And made about as much noise .
20 My gardening activities are , perhaps , slightly unorthodox , in that I make a point of growing plants whose flowers are known to be attractive to insects , plant flowers and vegetables together , tidy and prune only as much as is absolutely necessary , encourage plants , even ‘ weeds ’ , that give continuous ground cover , and rigorously exclude poisonous chemicals .
21 The interior is simple and has now hardly any painting or mosaic except on the floor .
22 You can decide to be imperfect , to do things in your own time , to please yourself , not to be strong and to try only as much as you like .
23 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 .
24 But as you say it may well be that erm we can look at it and say well really that factor compensates for that one ,
25 They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed .
26 There is nothing better than having praise from someone whose work you respect , nothing nicer than being able to pat an old friend on the back and say sincerely how much you like their work .
27 That was until Ronnie McFall came to Shamrock Park and in a short space of time we have won the League two years on the trot , runner-up last season and challenging strongly again this season .
28 Fats are a major source of energy in the diet , and provide twice as many calories as protein or carbohydrates for the same amount in weight .
29 This will be drawn to scale , and show exactly how much space is available .
30 She almost forgot about lunch , and when she arrived back in her room , she was very hungry and ate twice as much as usual .
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