Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Purchasers responded only weakly to market signals such as competitive prices ( 22 per cent ) or the fact that a provider had " a well developed quality assurance programme " ( 12 per cent ) .
2 He wanted so badly to ask Swan this question , but he could n't speak a word of bird-language .
3 The Jordanian Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , Mudar Badran , announced on Feb. 24 that the confrontation in the Gulf had so far cost Jordan some US$8,000 million , or double the value of the country 's domestic economic output .
4 In an extremely well sorted sediment all particles approximate to the same size .
5 Kraal had long ago warned Creggan that autumn was Slorne 's worst time but so far this had not proved so .
6 Works by major artists such as Brueghel , Aertsen , Mor , Rubens , van Dyck , Jordaens , Snyders and Teniers will be shown alongside less well known artists such as Van Balen , Diepenbeeck , Van Thulden and Boeckhorst .
7 People with Parkinson 's disease , epilepsy , Alzheimer 's disease , motor neurone disease , multiple sclerosis , stroke and other less well known illnesses such as the inherited degenerative disease Friedreich 's ataxia will all be able to use the centre .
8 She 'd always preferred French cricket , although she 'd naturally never told Stephen that .
9 Yet the prohibition of cock-fighting and animal-baiting was only politically possible because of the tacit consent of the landed élite , who had already largely desert ed these activities for more exclusive and civilized ones .
10 The evaluation of physical resources extends to items which are more obviously learning tools such as hearing or reading aids and books , audiovisual materials and project packs .
11 I hardly ever write letters any more .
12 Many of the difficulties experienced by users trying to cope with the idiosyncratic Shifting system could be solved through adding extra keys to handle the more commonly occurring characters such as the punctuation , mathematical symbols and Delete .
13 Of the other main contenders , Wasps got the better of Harlequins in their league opener , but neither looks sharp enough to worry Bath this year .
14 ‘ Would it be illegal to … ? ’ is the most frequently asked question these days at the Columbia Business School : students say it helps them to identify future white-collar criminals .
15 In east Africa wage-paid labour was confined almost entirely to entrepôt ports such as Mombasa and Zanzibar .
16 The UFC no longer gives universities this research money directly .
17 But Mr Lafontaine , standard-bearer of the up-and-coming generation , and the second most important figure after Mr Vogel on the committee drafting the party programme for the next decade , has certainly not had things all his own way .
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