Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the 18th and 19th centuries , they defended their great overseas empire against pirates , using ships large enough to carry up to 80 cannon . |
| 32 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 33 | The field of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination , hitherto consisting only of former Massachusetts senator Paul E. Tsongas and former mayor of Irvine , California , Larry Agran , grew substantially in September . |
| 34 | If I can only think back to that precise moment , and recover all the necessary ambient data , I 'll be able to figure it out for myself . |
| 35 | Keep both legs taut and straight and gently push up with both arms . |
| 36 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 37 | There are many who will never forget that sad time but now the East Lindsey coastline has a happy atmosphere ; sometimes throbbing with the joy of summer seaside thrills but more constantly pulsating gently in natural tranquility , . |
| 38 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |
| 39 | We were a group of young people who all lived locally in one of the poorest areas on the outskirts of San Salvador . |
| 40 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 41 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 42 | All processes execute on the local client — not on the central host processor — and version control ensures the dictionary ( list of objects ) is only downloaded once to each client , on the first time of use . |
| 43 | It is very thin and often has deep infoldings and outpouchings so binding together with neighbouring cells . |
| 44 | One area of child development that the child psychiatrists appeared to have made passably tidy , has been somewhat roughed up by ethological methods over recent years . |
| 45 | In a famous sentence he says that ‘ Person … is a forensic term appropriating actions and their merit ; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law , and happiness and misery . ’ |
| 46 | So begins the story of Ragged Dick , or Street Life in New York , Horatio Alger 's first book — the first of 135 tales written in the late 1800s that together sold close to 20 million copies . |
| 47 | ‘ I reckon , with what you 've asked for , there wo n't be much change out of four hundred . ’ |
| 48 | I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies . |
| 49 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 50 | Cos he , he , well he said she only lived there for two months . |
| 51 | But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance . |
| 52 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 53 | Anil Kumble took four of the seven wickets to fall today and England could only quibble with one of them — when Graeme Hick looked to have been wrongly given out for 47 , caught off bat-and-pad at short leg . |
| 54 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 55 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 56 | We are concerned in fact that er the western nations did n't rather deplore earlier er Hussein 's actions against his own people using chemical weapons , and we think it 's a shame for us that we 've only come in at this point , and we must come in carefully I think . |
| 57 | Luckily Mike Farquharson who had only come offshore for two days and ended up staying a week , volunteered to cover until my colleague Jim Gibb arrived . ’ |
| 58 | Yet it 's flexible enough to pull away in fourth gear from 1000rpm . |
| 59 | So I rang the midwife again , who decided she 'd better come over after all . |
| 60 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |