Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose it 's a little absurd to keep them all now . ’ |
| 2 | In the current anti-tycoon climate , there might be those who think it a little tactless to rob your own company 's pension fund to help you take over Bob Maxwell 's newspapers . |
| 3 | There is some merit in this of course , because there are several isomers of pentane and higher hydrocarbons , and it is a little confusing to call them all isopentane , isohexane etc . |
| 4 | Presumably this made it possible to combine touch and smell information , though we can only guess about this . |
| 5 | That is , she is exempt from supervision but not wholly free to choose her own activities . |
| 6 | It is extremely pleasant to have your own car , and an excellent way of finding your own mile of empty beach . |
| 7 | ‘ If some people think that I live in a void , as you put it , ’ said the poet on television , ‘ perhaps that tells us more about them than about me . |
| 8 | It just would be so awful to move our lovely trees cos they 're all so , so dependent , that 's it ! |
| 9 | So that makes us equal . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not saying there 's more culture in our family and that Eric plays football as well so that makes us more interesting , I 'm just saying he expresses himself in one way and also in another and we do n't want to be criticised for that . ’ |
| 11 | Well i will be bringing 4 maybe 5 so that gives us 11 plus 3 subs . |
| 12 | Yet , it is still sufficiently detailed to make our main points . |
| 13 | ‘ It must be , ’ she laughed , ‘ if he 's suddenly prepared to run his own errands ! ’ |
| 14 | I 'm er I 'm pretty clear what 's expected of me but not so certain that I know how to make it sufficiently interesting to achieve your undivided attention . |
| 15 | He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment . |
| 16 | It is almost as if they were lent to us for their infancy and formative years , and are then entirely free to go their own way . |
| 17 | And each state is entirely free to devise whatever political structures it feels like devising . |
| 18 | Only then were businesses in Europe entirely free to use their domestic currencies to buy dollars in order to pay for imports ; and controls on capital movements remained widespread . |
| 19 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 20 | I 've no idea about the mood , I 've no idea what people will think of er maybe large numbers Well one journalist said to me in Blackpool and perhaps this says it all , he said , Michael , you 're the only really popular person here this week . |
| 21 | But perhaps this tells us more about Western society than about human nature . |
| 22 | Where does all this leave us present-day women ? |
| 23 | ‘ These assassins are obviously prepared to sacrifice their own lives to kill you . |
| 24 | Obviously this contained its own contradictions ; the patriotism of the football hooligan had to be tempered by the authority of the law . |
| 25 | I was extremely interested to read your special issue on Cancer ( NI 198 ) . |
| 26 | It is not only easier to remember everything this way but it can actually be more fun too . |
| 27 | As Cora-Beth had so truly argued , they were engaged and it could not be so wrong to anticipate their actual marriage . |
| 28 | These soldiers were generally known as Brabançons , but sometimes as Navarrese or Basques or Germans , not so much to indicate their precise place of origin as to express the fact that they were foreigners and spoke a language which was not understood . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not so easy to turn your whole life inside out , ’ says Sergei , and moves in his knight to mate my pepperpot king . |
| 30 | It is less easy to see its immediate relevance to those in social work practice who are managing services or directly working with older people . |