Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 2 | Although this is a legal thing to do in Texas , an uproar over the shameless display of influence-peddling prompted most of the recipients to return the money ( mostly only after they had cashed the cheques ) . |
| 3 | It was now that a more marked difference from the Parisians showed itself in their work , most obviously when they laid hands on Sermisy or Janequin for their own purposes . |
| 4 | Right so if they give you two s two lengths to fine a third length the easiest way and the most accurate way is use Pythagoras . |
| 5 | So presumably if they do n't get bids for those routes then they they ca n't do anything about it . |
| 6 | I felt my parents ' anxieties about both their own and their children 's lives so keenly that they became my own , quite against my will , and I had to fight to reject them . |
| 7 | He attempted to plead insanity , but did it so effectively that they concluded he must be sane . |
| 8 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 9 | It 's been all right since they 've lived here because so few people come . |
| 10 | ‘ A programme like this might be all right if they had a proper documentary on the subject sometimes , but they do n't , ’ he said . |
| 11 | And would it be all right if they brought another couple of Conor 's mates ? |
| 12 | ‘ They 'd have been all right if they 'd been firewomen — she loves women , ’ he said . |
| 13 | But Mr Aimetti believes that it is easy enough to get them to work together successfully if they share a common technical language , in accounting , for example . |
| 14 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 15 | People were nevertheless quick to identify an interested argument and they did not feel disagreements less keenly because they understated them . |
| 16 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
| 17 | For a while during the 1970s these counterurban tendencies were operating so powerfully that they replaced the North-South drift as a primary dimension of regional population change in Britain ( Champion , 1983 ) . |
| 18 | He could never trust his legs , especially when his shoes pinched so badly that they made his feet tingle and twitch with pins and needles . |
| 19 | One or two need to be kept on the cool side , otherwise they grow too fast and weaken themselves so badly that they die . |
| 20 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 21 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 22 | Transatlantic birds such as the Tennessee warbler and Blackburnian warbler have also turned up in Fair Isle , amazing journeys for small birds , and especially so if they depend on insects for food , as most warblers do . |
| 23 | This is especially so if they have lost their muzzles , for it is likely they will have all the food they require down there with them . |
| 24 | The newspaper became embarrassed ; so much so that they ran a follow-up feature called ‘ Lest We Forget ’ . |
| 25 | Her parents remained adamant , so much so that they consulted Granny Patin concerning the wording on their daughter 's tombstone . |
| 26 | During the 1980s these quasi-government agencies became a convenient means of off-balance-sheet financing ; so much so that they have now amassed nearly $1 trillion-worth of obligations underwritten by the American taxpayer . |
| 27 | Those values and that conception of society have permeated the American consciousness , so much so that they have largely gone unstated . |
| 28 | In some rocks their shells lie so thickly that they form solid bands . |
| 29 | They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house . |
| 30 | Apple liked the idea so much that they invested a 20% stake in Adobe making themselves the largest customer . |