Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But do n't be misled , the book will most assuredly sink in a hot tub .
2 The point , therefore , is to validate Marxism , to show that it is not simply a method of interpretation , nor even that it is the best method of interpretation that can most successfully account for the facts and the course of history , but to prove a priori that history works according to dialectical structures , and to demonstrate ‘ the moments of their inter-relations , the ever vaster and more complex movement which totalises them and , finally , the very direction of the totalization , that is to say , the ‘ meaning of History ’ and its Truth , ( I , 69 ) .
3 I 'd much rather sit by the pool . ’
4 Eh , , I mean there 's a idea the money that 's been spent on the railways instead of on motorways we 'd be a lot better off , and I think and Partners subscribed to that because I think that erm , had more money being spent on the railways that we would have been much better off , oh I 'd much rather go on a train journey than on a motor bridge journey .
5 ‘ In my life , Oh why do I give valuable time to people who I 'd much rather kick in the eye ? ’
6 The Russians would much rather deal with a right-wing conservative any day because they know where they stand , rather than a left-wing liberal who might do something off the wall , like act on principle , for heaven 's sake .
7 Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour .
8 After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal .
9 The official Tass news agency announced on Jan. 1 that Soviet troops would henceforth only serve in the Transcaucasus on a voluntary basis .
10 Cayley attracted his friend Sylvester into studying invariants ( the term " invariant " is due to Sylvester ) and these two did so much research on the subject that they were named the Invariant Twins .
11 The plain fact is that some elements of the social charter would run the risk — indeed , would make it a real possibility — of this country returning to some of the trade union practices that did so much damage during the 1970s .
12 Hence , whether a child is placed with a foster family or in residential care may not so much depend on the child 's needs but on where he or she happens to live .
13 The question arises whether a subcontract owner-driver is really an independent contractor or , in fact , because he does so much work for a particular haulier , an employee of that haulier .
14 The teacher can only only come on a Monday morning .
15 Now if you just press the return key a couple of times right , and have a lot of actual and fitted , if you go into option three in the data post depression menu you will notice that the fit of our model is very very different right , so we are now getting a very very good correspondence between actual and fitted , notice that in our original model the thing started to break down at about nineteen thirty , right , just by allowing the intercept to vary , right , over the wartime we 've now got a much better fit throughout the whole period why is that the case ?
16 Why are we now getting a much better fit throughout the entire period simply by incorporating the dummy variable to the war period ?
17 Better not talk on the phone , had we ? ’
18 You know , in the past … ’ she trailed off , she could sense that she 'd better not squat on the bidet to wash between her legs in front of Miss Goldilocks .
19 ( Warning : your proof had better not apply to the H-numbers introduced above ( see exercise 15 below ) nor to some of the number systems introduced in Section 3.6 ( see exercise 3.6.12 ) where this assertion on gcds is false ! )
20 In deference to you , Mr. Speaker , perhaps I had better not respond to the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I entirely agree with the spirit of his comments .
21 ‘ You 'd better not get into a hassle with this guy , ’ Harvey interrupted .
22 Because the external examiners are coming into the child 's environment , they might only just walk through the school , but you 'd hope that they would pick up something of the ambience ; plus the work can be presented how the child wants to present it .
23 Nor did Gillian , who talked just as if she 'd only just run to the signpost and back .
24 Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist .
25 One very distinguishable talent of Dickens is the way how he can so easily move from a very serious solemn scene to an extremely comical one .
26 When the life of a child can so easily hang in the balance , is there not a case for recommending that all parents attend a practical course in first aid , rather than relying on the printed page ?
27 Threadworms are much more common than many people realise and can so easily sweep through the cleanest and most fastidious of families with young children .
28 It can so easily look like a stunt or be represented as a desire wilfully to shape malleable material .
29 He will only always talk about the things he always talks about .
30 Tax increases in other areas , including a new tax of 1.3 per cent on incomes exceeding F40,000 million , would only partly compensate for the cuts .
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