Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 2 | IBM Corp yesterday stepped up its pitch for OEM business , most strikingly offering an enhanced version of the 9371 microprocssor-based Personal/370 Adapter/A co-processor , so that designers can build 370-compatibility into workstations via a co-processor.The company 's Entry Systems Technology — Personal Systems business unit is also offering some of IBM 's handwriting recognition products to third parties , including technology that recognises both script and block capitals ; and in addition to the currently available PenPoint version , ThinkWrite will be available this year in versions that run under OS/2 and Windows for Pen Computing . |
| 3 | The conduct of the by-election was investigated by the central Election Commission , which , in an unprecedented decision on March 7 , countermanded the by-election on the grounds of electoral malpractice , thereby effectively ordering a full re-poll . |
| 4 | On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score . |
| 5 | From somewhere below came a great rending and echoing squeal of torn metal . |
| 6 | From somewhere below came an enraged crashing and bellowing . |
| 7 | Most only need a small angle of bank , as the rudders on gliders are not very powerful . |
| 8 | The primary products in which the UK has most obviously become a net exporter are oil and gas . |
| 9 | Take the crack through these then traverse delicately leftwards to reach a good ledge . |
| 10 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 11 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 12 | It should be noted that just as all deputies combined a school-wide responsibility with teaching a class , so most combined a major school-wide responsibility from the first list above with one or more of those from the second list . |
| 13 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
| 14 | I sometimes turn the possibility of this over in my mind , but only rarely does a suitable piece of information present itself . |
| 15 | But whereas calypso now only rarely contains a political message reggae almost always does . |
| 16 | The Cartesian cogito — cogito ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) — conventionally if somewhat simplistically marks a major point in the emergence of Western individualism . |
| 17 | But he 'd still much rather have a new pair of football boots at Christmas . |
| 18 | I 'd much rather have a plain name I know what they 're talking about then . |
| 19 | She much rather wanted a real policy-research unit , which of course is what she 's now got . |
| 20 | I 'd much rather see a bright young woman around the place , than some of the desiccated fuddy-duddy men we meet . ’ |
| 21 | So everything was all right alter a little while . |
| 22 | But the formula does work , not least because it so successfully creates an idyllic world of eternal sunshine , preserved countryside and sumptuous houses . |
| 23 | During much of the period leading up to this time the Panel had been considering the case of the large South Ronaldsay family whose father had been imprisoned — the family of fifteen children who so badly needed a positive and sympathetic solution to their problems . |
| 24 | For a convincing construction of a normal form it is not enough merely to list a few types of equivalence that can arise and show how to deal with them . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |
| 26 | He unclasped them just long enough to push a small packet across the desk towards Ruth . |
| 27 | He remained just long enough to save a substantial sum by the standards of Irish wealth and then came home with his newly acquired capital . |
| 28 | Rosé Champagne is achieved either by blending or by allowing the black grape skins ( Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier ) to stay in contact with the juice long enough to impart a pale rose colour . |
| 29 | ‘ Long enough to form an educated opinion , min skat — ’ |
| 30 | She saw Defries , and paused long enough to make a curious gesture : a closed fist , and the thumb sticking upwards . |