Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Microsystems is apparently considering taking back every nasty thing it ever said about X terminals and entering the business . |
| 2 | With five ends completed they had opened up a 39-22 lead , and at the halfway mark had all but tied up the title at a convincing 78-37 ahead . |
| 3 | Anti-vice campaigners like former boxer , Eddie Neilson have all but cleared up the red-light district . |
| 4 | It was an afternoon of high drama and low farce in which Cambridge all but threw away a 15-0 lead before Oxford , with a plethora of errors , nullified two fine tries by their American wing Hein . |
| 5 | It was undisciplined but incredibly powerful and , after all , its initial greeting had all but burnt away the shields around his mind . |
| 6 | Could this be the reason why , at times , when we are compiling a good catch , the fish suddenly go off ; as suddenly as switching off an electric light ? |
| 7 | In the abbot 's parlour Tutilo had a larger audience than Cadfael had bargained for , but welcomed it , or so it seemed , perhaps as leavening further the bleak reception he could expect from Herluin . |
| 8 | Gleizes and Metzinger stressed that Cubist painting had no specifically decorative function , and that it did not attain its full meaning only when hung on the wall at eye level . |
| 9 | That was not a proper construction of section 78 , which was drawn so as to embrace precisely the situation of this case amongst many others that might arise in individual cases . |
| 10 | It controls the ray-gun so as to give out a flash every second . ’ |
| 11 | parents should always arrange if possible for their children to see old people of marked interest in their lives , so as to carry on the links of tradition … |
| 12 | The user also needs to know the operations that can be applied to the relations so as to carry out the desired retrievals . |
| 13 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 14 | Jaq wondered how much effort of will it had cost her to resist ultimate , engulfing pleasure so as to gasp out a question or two to her tormenter and enchanter . |
| 15 | He thought doggedly of Carol so as to blot out the image of Helen 's sad face that seemed to have become imprinted on his mind . |
| 16 | As the clients relaxation skills develop the exercises may be combined so as to speed up the process of relaxation . |
| 17 | Lawrence then supposes that bristles grow so as to point down the concentration gradient . |
| 18 | If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient , they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed ( Figure 14d ) . |
| 19 | As soon as the Shivah days of deep mourning were over , Mrs Neumann converted her small front parlour into a shop selling basic foodstuffs and domestic items and set up a camp-bed for herself in a corner of the kitchen by the range so as to rent out the two attic rooms to lodgers . |
| 20 | Composition means arrangements , and English composition is the arrangement , in speaking or writing English , of right words in their right order , so as to convey clearly a consecutive meaning . |
| 21 | ( iv ) Teachers should discuss a variety of works so as to bring out the range and effects of different types of sound patterning , eg alliteration , assonance , rhymes , onomatopoeia , and of figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personifications . |
| 22 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 23 | For reasons which are not stated the legislature in 1988 made it essential for a successor to live in the dwelling house during the period of six months but did not amend the Act of 1985 so as to impose either a six months ' period or residence in a particular dwelling house in the case of a council house . |
| 24 | And , certainly , it is important for the creative group to be present to discuss the client 's reactions to their ideas , so as to understand why a particular point may need to be changed . |
| 25 | utterly unnecessarily imposed so as to fatten up the privatisation turkey — and the Government have the cheek to tell us how much better things are now . |
| 26 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 27 | Hyacinth thought it best to leave with him at once , so as to cut short the unpleasantness . |
| 28 | The aim of both the part-time education and further extended full-time study , on grants , would be to acquire qualifications on a module basis , so as to build up a whole range of technical qualifications . |
| 29 | The major contribution to the promotion of community languages which these courses have made has been to discover significant numbers of good classroom practitioners , good analysts , good coordinators and good teacher trainers , so as to build up a genuine national resource in terms of expertise . |
| 30 | Panel surveys involve repeated observations of subjects so as to build up a longitudinal record of the events of interest . |