Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose in a way it 's a bit like the tail wagging the dog to a certain extent , whereby the er larger institutions rather want to get their two pence worth , er rather than let the Engineering Council take over . |
| 2 | Most needs can be met by products available on an off-the-shelf basis and you will rarely need to design your own software . |
| 3 | Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England . |
| 4 | ‘ Believe me , my dear Shiona , if I could , I 'd much prefer to say something pleasant . ’ |
| 5 | Britain has apparently undertaken to review its own aid to Vietnam once it becomes clear that forced repatriation is working smoothly , and that Hanoi keeps to its side of the bargain , not to punish boat people who are deported from Hong Kong . |
| 6 | She did so want to wear her new shoes . |
| 7 | However , they apparently failed to consult their own solicitors on the matter and simply conformed to the request of the mortgagees as a formality . |
| 8 | The former did not invariably experience substantial development as commercial centres — some railway centres were better located than others — but were better placed to market their own products and to develop economically , even though Le Mans developed at the expense of Alençon , for example , and Orlèans , Besançon and Montpellier all lost some of their traditional importance in the wine trade , the last losing out to Béziers and Nîmes which were at junctions in the railway network . |
| 9 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 10 | The young pilot had the grey filly nicely placed to make his winning move around the two furlong mark and when the question was asked the English-trained miler was the one with all the answers . |
| 11 | With all that history of service and success behind him , Austin remains as sharp and on the ball as ever , having only stopped swimming himself some three years ago . |
| 12 | people who work together tend to spend their non-work time with persons from the same industry . |
| 13 | ‘ Every single drop of water going in to your house has been expensively treated to make it drinkable , so do you really want to spray it all over your car ? ’ said Kent Meters Marketing Director Terry Stoten . |
| 14 | Bristol and Insignia apparently intend to combine their respective technologies so that Bristol 's source-level Windows-on-Unix application programming interface product Wind/U will run binary Windows applications . |
| 15 | Bristol and Insignia apparently intend to combine their respective technologies so that Bristol 's source-level Windows-under-Unix application programming interface product Wind/U will run binary Windows applications . |
| 16 | So make Shell your first port of call every time you need fuel — and watch those Air Miles add up . |
| 17 | Even when he was relatively young he very much enjoyed exercising his keen intellect in analysing the controversies of his day . |
| 18 | As for you , you 'd better come to see me this afternoon . |
| 19 | The Glasgow distiller , owned by the mighty American Brands , only needs to advance its 41.3 per cent stake to just over 50 per cent . |
| 20 | The central implication of RHT is that people will not only act to reduce their perceived level of risk when it exceeds the target level , they will also act to increase it when it is below the target level . |
| 21 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 22 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 23 | Meanwhile she was obviously expected to make herself useful . |
| 24 | She remembered , too , Canon Wheeler 's unexpected appearance at Ian 's attic office when he had perhaps expected to find it empty . |
| 25 | It is not related to the true eels but looks superficially like them and so has acquired their popular name . |
| 26 | Unable to stand it any longer , Sheila went up to him and before he had time to react seized both envelopes , feverishly tearing open her own and handing the other to Mona , who appeared almost unable to take it . |
| 27 | And we 're going to go through them , you do n't necessarily need to write them all down because there is such a lot , but , because they 're all sort of shown individually here . |
| 28 | He could not help her by attacking Havvie and creating an even worse scandal ; that would be self-indulgent , merely seeking to exorcise his own guilt for not believing her . |
| 29 | Dumpy , down-to-earth Nellie faced facts and realised people would spot the difference in age between herself and Robert , so decided to confuse them all by calling him her adopted son . |
| 30 | The proposed closure of the USM , though not before the end of 1996 ( it will remain open to new entrants until the end of next year ) has thrown sharply into focus the debate on how smaller companies find a way of closing the much quoted ‘ equity gap ’ which they and their advisers have long argued makes it harder for them to raise any significant degree of long-term capital other than debt finance . |