Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the term that has caught on most widely to describe such zealots is ‘ hacker ’ and what they do , constantly , is known as ‘ hacking ’ . |
| 2 | Sharp was unable to name specifically the brands which had most successfully taken this approach , but confirmed the list was dominated by the large US multinationals such as Ford and Coca-Cola . |
| 3 | The coelocanth fish , regarded as a " living fossil " surviving from geological prehistory , has been placed on Appendix 1 of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , thereby effectively banning all trafficking of the fish . |
| 4 | He is not doing badly enough to find another nominee through a brokered convention , but he is not doing well enough to please a majority even within his own party . |
| 5 | But it is the Duchess herself who most obviously embodies those qualities of courage and fidelity that act as an antidote to the surrounding evil . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
| 7 | So acutely did some people feel menaced by the ‘ godless conspiracy ’ that in Brooklyn , when a sewer explosion blew out the manholes , they panicked and shouted ‘ The Russians ! ’ ; in Boston an antique exhibition barred Russian pieces from being exhibited ; in Bournemouth the conductor of the municipal symphony orchestra barred pieces by Shostakovitch from being played . |
| 8 | The issue is so delicately balanced that goal difference could even decide who goes up . |
| 9 | My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life . |
| 10 | The whole PWL format has long since lost any spark of life and songs like ‘ Too Much Of A Good Thing ’ and ‘ Finer Feelings ’ are simply uninspiring , totally predictable and tedious . |
| 11 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 12 | No one worried much ; people in a hurry have long since found another way to travel . |
| 13 | We are slow to apprehend danger ; would much rather ignore some threat to our way of life , hoping it will go away . |
| 14 | I would much rather see more emphasis placed on er , enhancing the special constabulary , er , because I think that is a , a far more er , productive initiative . |
| 15 | There is less neighbourly feeling these days , we hope to always provide a friendly sympathetic ear . ’ |
| 16 | It was seldom worth tangling with wizards , they so rarely had any treasure worth speaking of . |
| 17 | Everyday experience is generally highly predictable and so rarely offers such surprises . |
| 18 | He added : " It is a strange world we live in where it is not all right to kill some animals because they are prettier or more intelligent than others . " |
| 19 | This usually occurred indirectly , but none the less effectively introducing this information which Parliament had tried to rule out as admissible evidence . |
| 20 | The most important figure in the latter group is Bunting himself , so little read these days that many readers will need to be told that the title of Davie 's history refers to his masterpiece Briggflatts ( 1966 ) . |
| 21 | So little wonder that Mains should return to his country home just south of Dunedin and take with him a rather jaundiced view of the workings of New Zealand rugby , and the partiality of some of the media who followed the Stewart party line in South Africa . |
| 22 | If pain and other symptoms were being so badly managed these patients should have been referred promptly to other health care professionals who might have been able to provide a better quality of analgesia . |
| 23 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 24 | A short stop in Delhi , but long enough to enable several sets of Rohan travel kit to get splattered with dye in the Hindi festival of colours , Holi . |
| 25 | He remained there long enough to draw many camp-followers of various kinds , including several of the merchants of Shrewsbury , who had an interest in the supply of gear and provisions , and smiths and other craftsmen who could pick up lucrative jobs among the armouries . |
| 26 | Yet qualifying for a black belt usually takes at least three years ( see table ) — long enough to put most westerners off . |
| 27 | And they 've been friends long enough to take each other for granted , turn up when they feel like it , and shut up when they 're busy . |
| 28 | He was n't at all old , but he had been in poetry long enough to take these things coolly . |
| 29 | I could not bring myself to suggest that she was not likely to live much longer , certainly not long enough to make either course imprudent . |
| 30 | It took a while before anyone issued a Shabba album , perhaps because he was so popular in reggae 's ‘ get a money ’ freelance business that no producer could pin him down long enough to cut enough sides . |