Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It most expressly includes the churches and it most expressly includes schools to ensure there is no truancy . |
| 2 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 3 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 4 | While mail order , trading checks and weekly credit callers or tallymen continue to be the forms of credit which most obviously meet the needs of those used to weekly budgeting , and to being paid weekly in cash , they are likely to continue to be the obvious choice for many such people — regardless of truth-in-lending regulations . |
| 5 | In fact , just over 60% had no option thereby greatly reducing the enterprises that these family and part-time farmers could engage in . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the interpretations of historians will have long since superseded the ideas of W. H. Crook . |
| 7 | They seem blissfully unaware that their opponents have long since abandoned the positions at issue and now share important common ground with them . |
| 8 | Opposition leaders had long since satirised the Nazis as ‘ all new cars and gold braid ’ . |
| 9 | One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee . |
| 10 | Perhaps that is why it so effectively renders the thoughts of a people whose analysis of the world differs so radically from our own . |
| 11 | They are going to give the children the idea that it is all right to change the facts to suit your way of thinking . |
| 12 | D' you think I 'm well off , is that why I live in this flat , on this estate where no one talks to you because they 're afraid and people like you can come bursting in any hour of the day or night because the place is so badly built the locks do n't fit the doors anyway . |
| 13 | The last word must go to Alfred Russel Wallace , who so brilliantly understood the forces acting on this distribution and wrote over a century ago : |
| 14 | ‘ It is no longer enough merely to acknowledge the facts … and to hope that science will solve by itself the problems that it is creating . |
| 15 | The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career . |
| 16 | The coffee at the cafe had perked him up long enough to tackle the reviews but then heat and alcohol had won and he had nodded off . |
| 17 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
| 18 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 19 | The main considerations in deciding whether to release such a prisoner are whether he or she has been detained long enough to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence for the offence and whether the potential risk to the public is judged to be acceptable . |
| 20 | I have been a manager long enough to know the fans only look on me as a punch bag , constantly on the end of the verbal one-two . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been here long enough to know the colours of the underground , darling . ’ |
| 22 | That campaign involves a series of ballots designed to last long enough to prevent the closures , while stopping short of a Yes vote on opting-out . |
| 23 | Suppose you are reading in poor light , and that you glance at a word for long enough to identify the letters " commerce " . |
| 24 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 25 | Teddy all made up to go out was a cross between Ginger Rogers and Rita Hayworth — her red-gold hair a mass of curls , false eye-lashes long enough to sweep the streets , face entirely out of a box ( courtesy of the American PX ) , and fully fashioned grey silk stockings which were strictly not Waaf issue . |
| 26 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
| 27 | From Oakeshott we can perhaps better appreciate the concepts of authority , liberty , and law which pervade normativist thought . |
| 28 | The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories . |
| 29 | The new terms will give sponsoring trade associations and chambers of commerce greater freedom of choice in how DTI trade fair support is spent , and so better match the needs of exhibitors . |
| 30 | The old fulminations against political alliances will be heard , and the old predictions of financial disaster will be trotted out ; the old yarns about schemes of interested but impecunious politicians who desire to insert their capacious hands into our money chests will be ventilated ; we shall , in fact , be inundated by all the old bosh which has so long confused the issues and blocked the way to advance in the direction of cooperative representation . |