Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Moir , head of BBC TV light entertainment , said : ‘ His unique gruff humour , his exceptional ability to use the English language to produce brilliant comic effect has rarely been equalled and surely now will never be surpassed . |
| 2 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 3 | The object of the Institution is , to reform , and bring into a regular system , that important branch of medicine which regards the treatment of diseases incidental to horses and other cattle , and which has hitherto been neglected and much abused in this country … |
| 4 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 5 | ‘ The police said the gas canister was about three-quarters full , which suggests it had only been tested and never used in earnest , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Unless it is assumed that the original stream had a meander belt of varying width , we must conclude that the meanders have not only been incised but also more fully developed in the more resistant rock . |
| 7 | They do not show how to impose mathematics , but occasions when mathematical experiences and ideas have naturally been involved and sometimes explored , as each teacher has thought appropriate . |
| 8 | Through current vital statistics or special studies conducted in statistically more developed countries it has long been observed and well demonstrated that childbearing patterns , such as maternal age , parity and the interval between consecutive births have a characteristic effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and early childhood . |
| 9 | ( Its importance in enjambment , for example , has long been recognised but never codified . ) |
| 10 | In any case , the vacuous character of ( 14 ) and ( 15 ) can apparently be reduced or even made to disappear by various means without changing the elements or touching the intensional relations which bind them together . |
| 11 | However , this enthusiasm to convey solutions to pupils often ends up by precluding the pupils ' own ideas and can not only be inhibiting but also take away the pupils ' enjoyment of getting there themselves . |
| 12 | This earthly world was depleted of all powers at the end of creation time history ; after that time the community could only be achieved and continuously recreated through individuals carefully taking , with the help of the ruwatu , limited amounts of transformational forces to do so from the gods . |
| 13 | If he wanted to refer a patient to a nursing home and the social work team recommended district nursing in the patient 's own home , he would not only be overruled but also have to foot the bill for the nurse . |
| 14 | The trouble is that the Scottish Education Department disagrees with both of us and insists that religious observance must not only be reinstated but also reinforced . |
| 15 | Another important development will be compact disks that can not only be read but also written to , so the user can make his own amendments to the data . |
| 16 | Warnings from western diplomats that he would ‘ not only be imprisoned but perhaps killed ’ failed to deter him , despite the trouble encountered on his way out of Malawi . |
| 17 | His title-pages specify that his songs may not only be sung but also played ‘ on all sorts of instruments ’ ( auff allerley Instrumenten zu brauchen ) ; indeed the non-tenor parts are often obviously instrumental , as in Senfl 's ‘ Wol kumpt der May ’ in Ott 's 121 . |
| 18 | How water was raised from the well can only be speculated but close to this spot stood an old Elizabethan house , which was demolished to make way for the flats . |
| 19 | If a horse is forced to defend himself , perhaps being cornered and therefore unable to flee , he will turn around and present his rump and maybe lift or stamp a hindleg , signifying his intention to kick . |
| 20 | A spokesman at Darlington police station said : This was a despicable act and someone could have easily been hurt or even killed . |
| 21 | If insufficient attention has been devoted to the design of this and also the related access procedures the symptoms are a plethora of documentation which no individual entirely understands , the temptation to do it again rather than waste time finding out how something has already been done and too much reliance on the human memory . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , that has already been done and more simply . |
| 23 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 24 | Some mention of accidents has already been made but further , more specific comment is relevant . |
| 25 | Now the point has already been raised and partly answered in the question in the case of Selby District Council as to whether it matters whether there is an over-provision of land for industry and other employment . |
| 26 | Hermione Farthingale was one of the girls who had already been chosen and foolishly , I realized later , or maybe wisely , I partnered David and Hermione together because Hermione was extremely beautiful . |
| 27 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
| 28 | The process of editing will take account of the other papers left by Miss Lister , including the vast number of letters which she left and which have already been calendered and partly transcribed . |
| 29 | Danny confirmed that a room had already been booked and soon a porter , who wore a badge saying , ‘ Hello my name is Peter ’ conveyed the rucksack of Mr Cornelius Murphy and his companion , Mr Howard Hughes , up to their room . |
| 30 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that fully two thirds of the costs of Trident have already been spent or contractually committed by the present Government ? |