Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is it that so movingly draws so many people — his innocent , childlike way , the stony visual he projects , set off against his highly visible symptoms ? |
| 2 | Dysfunction is a term currently enjoying great vogue , perhaps because it so aptly describes so much of what we laughingly refer to as modern living . |
| 3 | The operation itself is usually purely formal , and only just stirs up enough dust to make you cough a little , but it is a sign that you belong to the higher or fit-to-be-dusted classes . |
| 4 | The transition perhaps partly explains why representative democracy is so much less associated with national liberation today than in the late eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries . |
| 5 | It is the most astonishing part of all God 's providence to me , that He so far forsaketh almost all the world , and confineth His special favour to so few ; that so small a part of the world hath the profession of Christianity . ’ |
| 6 | Debt collectors are a third party and that point alone often has enough psychological impact to get a debtor to pay them on their very first approach . |
| 7 | Usually , I stay the same all day , and changing so often feels very strange to me . ’ |
| 8 | The rate at which you eat not only strongly influences how much you want to eat but — more surprisingly — it influences the length of time elapsing before you feel the desire to eat again . |
| 9 | We were thrilled by her generous gesture in this the Guild 's Centenary Year , not least because the story she tells so well shows that much of what we do for Christian Aid is in the best Guild tradition . |
| 10 | Does the Minister accept that the Secretary of State was mistaken when he said that the initial slow and small take-up of student loans showed that there was no widespread poverty and hardship among students since all the evidence of citizens advice bureaux , Members ' mail and so on shows clearly that , because of the reducing value of student grants and the attack on student benefits , there is real and widespread hardship and poverty among the British student population ? |
| 11 | Unfortunately , this is not always as successful as it might be , largely because your dog comes to relate to the trainer 's commands and so then proves more reluctant to follow your instructions . |
| 12 | Has a very calm nature and er explosive turn of pace and all round looks very promising this nineteen year old who 's made only about half a dozen appearances in the first team . |
| 13 | So why has n't such behaviour been recorded before ? |
| 14 | And they can also be distinguished on the basis of their sensitivity to another toxin , known as omega conortoxin , er which more or less specifically inhibits just one class of channel . |
| 15 | But it just just seems suspiciously cheap . |
| 16 | The nation thus still remains largely unknown to the world , and to herself . |
| 17 | Indeed , much of the film has dated badly , by comparison with the better American films of around the same time ( Wild River , Psycho , The Hustler , El Cid ) , or to put it more neutrally appears less attractive than it did in its own time . |
| 18 | So combining the State benefits with your own life insurance that still only provides around seven thousand pounds a year . |
| 19 | Unisys Corp claims to have won some 50% of the world 's open systems transaction processing business , but still only has around 22 Tuxedo customers on its books , including the Union Bank of Switzerland , Eurodollar car rental , La Namur Assurance Co in Belgium and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV ; NCR Corp , it estimates , has some 10 to 15 customers for Top End monitor , while Transarc Corp 's rival Encina has only just started shipping . |
| 20 | The act of copulation usually only takes about five seconds , ejaculation occurring as soon as the male has entered the female . |
| 21 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 22 | Even in times of rapid inflation , interest rates are generally so much higher than the rate of price inflation that saving up to buy later normally works out better value for money . |
| 23 | Objectively , it is true that Okapi nearly always retrieves as much as or more than LIBERTAS , but LIBERTAS sometimes outputs records in a more sensible order , keeping editions of the same work together and taking word adjacency into account in the weighting procedure ( so that records containing the actual search statement come out first ) . |
| 24 | Psychology also often shuts out female subjects from objective method , and leaves them to more qualitative approaches . |
| 25 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 26 | ICL also now generates about half its revenues from higher margin non-hardware sales , and expects this to increase to between 55% and 60% over the next few years . |
| 27 | The story here also goes back some 50 years to S. K. Bose , the famous Indian physicist whose name is associated with ‘ boson ’ particles and with Bose condensation , a phenomenon connected with the behaviour of liquefied helium . |
| 28 | Salmeterol , a new long acting β 2 agonist , produces bronchodilatation for at least 12 hours in patients with asthma and when given in doses of 50 µg twice daily provides more effective control of asthma symptoms than salbutamol 200 µg four times daily . |
| 29 | sometimes just inches sometimes whole towns |
| 30 | ‘ There always seems so much to do — but they like everything the way it 's always been . |