Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better than singing boastful tunes like ‘ Rule Britannia ’ as though you Brits were n't beaten hollow by us poor rebels , ’ was her riposte to that . |
| 2 | If you want the whole rumbustious , arrogant , self-satisfied , smug , righteous , courageous , opinionated , dedicated , class-ridden , adventure-seeking , patriotic life of an era in full technicolour , you can do no better than collect Victorian bindings . |
| 3 | We can do better than taking simple means of three , however . |
| 4 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 5 | 167 ) says that the Corinthians despised craftsmen less than did other Greeks ( note the negative formulation ) and a recent survey of Corinthian territory confirms the exceptional variety of goods manufactured there . |
| 6 | Wear a helmet , especially if using fast roads . |
| 7 | Wear a helmet , especially if using fast roads . |
| 8 | Wear a helmet , especially if using fast roads . |
| 9 | Their best-known spokespeople were removed and replaced abruptly , without explanation , with new ones who smiled constantly while issuing contradictory statements and random exhortations . |
| 10 | The material takes the form of supported self-study packages , so a student can work through most of the material alone while maintaining regular contact with a tutor . |
| 11 | Those accusations are always made by the same people who have all but destroyed public support for the local authority concept because of their blindness to the requirements of good financial management within local authorities . |
| 12 | Others , like the now all but vanished Saxon cathedral in North Elmham in Norfolk , are the subjects of academic papers by the staff of the Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings division of the Department of the Environment . |
| 13 | In theory this sort of transitory demand from a minority of the community should not be allowed to influence selection decisions , but in practice librarians have often found it difficult to ignore long waiting lists entirely when selecting new books . |
| 14 | Movements and posture used daily when doing different jobs or in different occupations can save or squander energy . |
| 15 | There would be extensive international involvement in the affairs of state , especially as regards human rights . |
| 16 | The forest still encroached to the shoreline , falling back only when meeting occasional inlets where smaller streams joined the major river . |
| 17 | Decline due to ageing is nearly always imperceptible , noted only when comparing present ability with that of many years past . |
| 18 | Roberts ( 4.5 ) surveys the literature on youth , pointing out that the traditional focus on how youth cultures have functioned so as to reconcile young people to adult roles in employment and family life have lost a crucial element — the expectation that young people ( especially those with only basic education ) would have jobs available . |
| 19 | The problem is how to conduct economic policy so as to reconcile full employment and price stability . |
| 20 | All the advice we have read assumes that the wife will claim a refund of tax on her low income , rather than share a husband 's income so as to take full advantage of allowances . |
| 21 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 22 | He also introduced the idea that different sensory fibres within the normal retina could be selectively fatigued , so as to yield coloured after-images . |
| 23 | In February 1992 , however , Lautro 's Rules were amended so as to give other persons served with an intervention notice the right to appeal against it : see new rules 7.28 and 7.3(12) . |
| 24 | Basically , a general program , supplied with the data layout and validation requirements of the study , guides the keypuncher page by page through the questionnaire form ( or similar document ) in a helpful way so as to facilitate error-free transfer of the information and to give immediate warning of any data anomalies that can be detected as well as providing a mechanism for correcting mistakes . |
| 25 | The most convincing answer is that Truman was intent primarily upon terminating the Pacific conflict speedily so as to save American lives but that he was interested simultaneously in strengthening American interests vis-à-vis Russia , which included restricting the amount of territory to be occupied by the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | The important thing is to create a society in which the motives people actually have will operate so as to generate good intentions , such as will normally produce good actions , that is , ones which augment happiness . |
| 27 | Newsletters were circulated giving details of campaigns , and some of these , such as those sent by Bartholomew Burghersh to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1346 , were carefully phrased so as to generate public support for the invasion of Normandy . |
| 28 | The crucial area of debate centres upon whether the signals from ecologically fragile and marginal areas will reach institutions and governments so as to induce appropriate innovations for those areas . |
| 29 | It seems that ‘ differentiation ’ is being redefined once again , so as to include democratic institutions and a market economy . |
| 30 | There 's a ‘ chat-and-pat ’ service ; staff call your hound by name , and tiptoe past your room at night so as to let sleeping dogs lie ; your dog 's photograph is taken in the hotel ; the hotel manager appears for a final ‘ wave-and-wag ’ ; there 's a VIP service for show-winning dogs ; and a discount for families whose dogs are better behaved than the owners ! |