Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 2 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 3 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 4 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 5 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 6 | Behind the retina is a cascade of other cells , neurones , which are all physiologically of just a few types . |
| 7 | Accordingly , when the Virgilian voice does irrupt into these relatively late Cantos , it does so with all the more force for being unheralded . |
| 8 | The break-up of the coalition and Churchill 's formation of a ‘ caretaker ’ government , consisting largely of his Conservative supporters together with just a few non-party men , followed almost at once . |
| 9 | This is a major meditative speech brooding on the loneliness of the man caught between action and passivity — thinking aloud in much the same way as Hamlet does in his many renowned arias on the soul and the theme of revenge . |
| 10 | However , because thermosetting plastics consist essentially of an irregular three-dimensional network of molecules , something like glass , they have quite a low work of fracture — seldom more than 100 J/m 2 and usually much less — and so they behave mechanically in much the same way as glass does . |
| 11 | They 're then taken upstream to exactly the same stretch of river they were picked up from two weeks ago and released — clearly happy to back in the territory they recognise … until this time next year , when they 'll be collected once again for another short break in their unlikely holiday location , just off the M25 … |
| 12 | So in reality they need never have been all at exactly the same place , only very close together . |
| 13 | Inevitably , perhaps , Parr and Jessica ended up in bed together at roughly the same time that evening . |
| 14 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 15 | Discovered by Wolfgang Pauli , this asserts that no two electrons are ever in exactly the same state of motion . |
| 16 | Personal narratives or short autobiographical pieces function organisationally in much the same way as fictional narratives , except that the writer is constrained by existential rather than imagined events . |
| 17 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
| 18 | Unix computers can have dumb terminals attached to them directly in much the same way as the traditional office minicomputer . |
| 19 | The new Northern Ireland should then be firmly secured within the political set-up of the United Kingdom by being treated thereafter on exactly the same basis as , say , Yorkshire or Lancashire . |
| 20 | They 're very big landowners — probably worth quite a few million piasters . " |
| 21 | Then in 1881 an expedition led by Giulietti , accompanied by thirteen other Italians , had been massacred somewhere to the north of Aussa , as was another expedition under Bianchi three years later in much the same area . |
| 22 | Their behaviour patterns can also be extremely individual , so that two autistic children with exactly the same characteristics may react differently to exactly the same situation . |
| 23 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 24 | But we do detect quasars relatively near in space , and hence at virtually the same age as our own Galaxy ( some 15 000 million years ) . |
| 25 | The aisled nave has four bays and the church is barrel vaulted throughout at almost the same height — there is neither triforium nor clerestory . |
| 26 | If it can be established by observation in some test experiment that a 10 lb. weight and a 1 lb. weight in free fall move downwards at roughly the same speed , then it can be concluded that the claim that bodies fall at speeds proportional to their weight is false . |
| 27 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 28 | So again we find out that erm , the expected price in T minus one , sorry in T , is a function of all previous prices all previous prices , okay and it wo n't surprise you to find out that the weight giving to treating the historical prices right becomes geometrically in exactly the same way as the adapted , as the partial adjustment er co-efficient or the partial adjustment model implied alright . |
| 29 | It does so effectively in much the same way as the presence of police on the beat reinforces a sense of law and order . |
| 30 | Developing countries and large urban areas in America use the technique now for roughly the same reason . |