Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some creatures , notably the American Allosaurus , had several bones in its skull loosely joined together so that the entire skull could yield to pressures of various sorts . |
| 2 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 3 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 4 | William felt that such radical ideas , ( despite their proven success — Amy Frazier is one of his former pupils ) , would find little favour either here or nationally in his country . |
| 5 | And there 's , towards the end of the first chapter there 's a bit all about erm erm er temptation and deliver us from evil kind of thing which is obviously rather from the , from the Lord 's Prayer and yet it 's , rather explained rather nicely and it , it 's a lovely , lovely book ! |
| 6 | It comprises nearly 150 oil paintings , collages , gouaches and sculptures from all periods of Picasso 's career and is a rich illustration of the opinion advanced by John Richardson in the first volume of his biography of the artist that still-life was a subject which Picasso ‘ would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history ’ . |
| 7 | Yet state censorship has arguably come much nearer and become more sinister with the Spycatcher affair and the more recent Section 28 . |
| 8 | This is also an area where the LEA could assist a school in offering its services as a ‘ critical friend ’ , able to stand back and perhaps judge more objectively than those working in the school itself . |
| 9 | God , it was bad enough masturbating as often as she did , without pushing her fingers up her arse . |
| 10 | ‘ We both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 11 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 12 | I failed to qualify : Ade Mafe just made it , but only got as far as the semi-final . |
| 13 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 14 | Nik Cohn , that indefatigable chronicler of popular culture , set out to walk Broadway in its entirety — but he only got as far as 42nd Street . |
| 15 | If you freeze your Brazils ( 24 hours is ample ) they not only crack more easily but separate delightfully . |
| 16 | Remember that ‘ small is beautiful ’ , so make as near as you can to ‘ one bite ’ food to avoid wastage . |
| 17 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 18 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 19 | He was in close contact with many prominent intellectuals and scholars , such as Kepler , Galileo , Hobbes , Descartes , and Mersenne , and was very highly regarded both inside and outside France , where he lived until his death in l655 . |
| 20 | Sleep is a great help to any illness , so sleep as much as you can . |
| 21 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 22 | ‘ In the light of the Divisional Court 's decision , we have naturally considered very carefully whether or not we should take the matter any further . |
| 23 | It was all happening comfortably just as she wished . |
| 24 | It was all happening rather quickly and by now I 'm getting a little unsure myself . ’ |
| 25 | The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans . |
| 26 | Behind Sweeney Agonistes lies Rivers , but Eliot 's interpretation and use of Rivers owes much to the Stevensonian world of his childhood reading , where white men seek paradise with island wives arrayed in ‘ the scarlet flowers of the hibiscus ’ , only to find too often that they are condemned to a life of soul-destroying boredom where ‘ Night on the Beach ’ is followed monotonously by ‘ Morning on the Beach ’ . |
| 27 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 28 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 29 | Thus in choosing between two alternative sets of pleasure one can not necessarily decide which is preferable by an arithmetical calculation , nor could one necessarily do so even if one was omniscient . |
| 30 | The top executive who is constantly looking ahead rather than backwards will rarely steer his company into a tight corner , in Laing 's view . |