Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many girls were saying to me , ‘ I ca n't cope with having breasts , the hassle it brings , the fear of rape or the jokes and remarks from boys , the idea that I must be a slag or a ‘ goer ’ , so rather than try to deal with the whole world ( which I ca n't ) , I 'll just turn all my anger inwards against myself , against the thing I can control : my body . ’ |
| 2 | However , it is better if the ‘ community ’ can grow up together rather than trying to persuade large , adult fish to forget all their territorial instincts and live harmoniously . |
| 3 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 4 | holding a ‘ dress rehearsal ’ beforehand so that the members of the panel can get used to working together rather than having to learn while the interview is in progress . |
| 5 | Linda Darnell despised him because he had treated her so badly when making Fallen Angel and Forever Amber . |
| 6 | So long as does increase and the organic composition of capital is not increasing rapidly , it will represent future consumption by productive workers , but will still be considered as a part of the surplus-value . |
| 7 | All this is , of course , true for others beside old people , and it is no part of the argument to categorise old people so separately as to further stigmatise them . |
| 8 | The implication of the argument is that 1823–4 , so far as petitioning to gain mass support was concerned , should be seen primarily as a new start in many places . |
| 9 | So far as getting to know her was concerned , it was apparent that Lieutenant Lapointe had achieved a start on him . |
| 10 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 11 | In many cases local authorities have taken the initial steps and some have gone so far as to form housing associations for the specific purpose of transfer . |
| 12 | He did not go so far as to offer to guide them onward to Gilsland , by night , since that would have been to insult the Armstrongs , Jardines and Johnstones . |
| 13 | Two went so far as to offer to reduce the metered fare after having taken a wrong turn in error . |
| 14 | However , contributors to the Review were largely unwilling to go so far as to attempt to specify the nature of artistic quality in general , despite the fact that their own capacity to decide which texts were of sufficient interest in themselves to justify study depended upon recognizing such quality . |
| 15 | It is ironic that theories of federalism , especially of the German variety , should stress responsibility so strongly while failing to realise it in practice . |
| 16 | Nearly all of Dad 's acquaintances were called ‘ Johnny ’ , this being much easier than having to remember every man 's christian name . |
| 17 | He had left home so hurriedly as to have packed not one of the poetry volumes that he was very seldom without . |
| 18 | Thus even though know has the operative sense in this use , the operation of obtaining knowledge is seen merely as the condition for predicating the infinitive 's event of the direct object . |
| 19 | It says a great deal about our attitude to the role of the opposition that you regard everything that they do as being a little more than attempt to seek a political advantage . |
| 20 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 21 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 22 | Those who preached the word of God , she maintained , should be judged according to the word of God , and punished the more severely if found wanting . |
| 23 | But nonetheless the literal translation I understand is that people who are Dutch citizens in this country should contact the er ambassador at thirty eight Hyde Park Gate and seek the relevant forms in order to register for the election and vote in the U K and I hope our friends er in in the Binnenhoff have taken that a little more seriously than appears to have been the case in in the Home Office . |
| 24 | It is not clear how this issue could be resolved , other than by stipulation , and hence rather than attempt to reach a conclusion we will proceed to the more fundamental question of whether the shareholders should , in the first place , be considered to have a moral right to decide how companies should be run in virtue of their ownership of corporate property . |
| 25 | Earlier this season completed double here when led entering straight , qknd clear and comfortably bt Swift Silver 3l ( 1m 3f , Sft ) . |
| 26 | This is why changing the voice of the verb in 9a from active to passive — which has the effect of interchanging the valency slots that the noun phrases occupy — removes the anomaly as effectively as replacing see or table . |
| 27 | You also ca n't help noticing that attempts to drag the Royal Family into the 20th Century have failed as badly as attempts to do the same for this other great British anachronism . |
| 28 | And I 'd rather use newspaper now rather than use use erm |
| 29 | It also criticized the manufacturers and contractors for lax planning and supervision of the project , the first aircraft having taken nearly twice as long as planned to build . |
| 30 | Its results are weapons already far better than needed to defeat second-rate enemies , which may be the only ones to worry about once the Soviet Union has imploded . |