Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But maybe these reactions are merely irrational vindictive emotions ( akin to vengeance ) which we ought morally to curb rather than indulge . |
| 2 | It is worth pausing here momentarily to observe that such legally provided remedies can be morally justified even when applied to people who are not subject to the authority of the government and its laws . |
| 3 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 4 | If only one frame at a time is exposed , with a delay in between ( stop motion ) , movement is not so much speeded up as created artificially : this is the basic principle of animation in all its forms . |
| 5 | Thus polyisobutylene might be expected to crystallize because the chain is symmetrical , but it will only do so if maintained at an optimum temperature for several months . |
| 6 | ‘ The buildings have been there all the time on the backcloth but they 'll only show up when lit , and the alcove , for Act One , will be altered thus . ’ |
| 7 | Although more representative of the whole unemployed population than the After Redundancy study , research on unemployment alone is insufficient to judge the specific impact of redundancy , especially on older workers — many of whom do not choose to declare themselves as unemployed , so register only while entitled to unemployment benefit — and the experience of economic insecurity following relatively secure employment . |
| 8 | Murray ( SDLP ) picked up transfers from all parties but not enough to do better than to become runner-up . |
| 9 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 10 | You might be wondering why a word mask merely reduces rather than eliminates the word-superiority effect , since it effectively short-circuits the operation of the target word 's detector . |
| 11 | Wiser heads , impressed by the scale and intensity of working-class militancy in a single region and recognizing that an ill-timed coup might merely provoke rather than prevent a nationwide revolution of the left , placed their faith in subtler tactics . |
| 12 | In all cases , however , the broken ends of the DNA on either side of the initial cut are apparently sealed so as to form hairpins , as Martin Gellert ( NIH ) showed , before they are nicked to form the final joint ( a process reminiscent of the reaction mechanism employed by topisomerases ) . |
| 13 | Rescheduling the debt has merely deferred rather than solved the problems of increasing internal efficiencies and domestic savings rates . |
| 14 | It should be damp enough to hold together when squeezed in the hand , but not so wet that water still runs out through the fingers . |
| 15 | It was an order , a decree that had to be obeyed , and the woman obviously knew better than to argue . |
| 16 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Aug. 22 , Cam was reluctant to accept the post and only did so after Do Muoi personally pressed him . |
| 17 | The teacher expressed concern that , although he could write quite well in English , he only did so when writing collaboratively with his friend ( who was absent ) ; she thought that collaboration might be becoming an avoidance strategy , to get out of the frustrating task of attempting to write in English . |
| 18 | Many refused ; even the town of Dijon , capital of the duchy of Burgundy , only did so when ordered to do so by its duke . |
| 19 | They may suck on it until it dissolves sufficiently to swallow rather than chew it and so meal-times take a very long time . |
| 20 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 21 | City Diary : Better thrown out than thrown in |
| 22 | Seemed to love going forward and was quick enough to get back when needed . |
| 23 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 24 | An important stated purpose of the Act was to give a legal framework for credit which was compatible with present-day commercial realities , and flexible enough to suit rather than restrict future developments in the credit industry — instead of the old framework , inflexibly moulded to outdated patterns of credit use . |
| 25 | He concluded , in the language of the time , that the early sea-urchin was a ‘ harmonious equipotential system ’ in the sense that the parts all functioned so as to generate a normal organism . |
| 26 | What we therefore need to do is to print it out in a way that will not only show the grid , but be big enough to follow easily whilst knitting . |
| 27 | And the people in front were obviously fleeing rather than decoying : Murray 's men . |
| 28 | For Tsongas this was considered a reward for his diligent and intelligent campaigning in the state , whilst for Clinton it represented a powerful resurgence for a campaign which , in early February , was being widely written off as doomed . |
| 29 | If you wear the same thing twice in the same situation you may give the impression that you have one safe set of clothes and that you are only immaculately turned out when relying on that one safe outfit . |
| 30 | Without such a review there is a serious danger that existing documentation problems may simply be automated along with the data , thus perpetuating rather than resolving them . |