Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 2 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 3 | The first two stages may be successfully carried out only where reliable market information is publicly available . |
| 4 | " I m sorry , Mr Beamish , but he 'll be away all day and I thought I 'd better come along rather than leave it till tomorrow . " |
| 5 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 6 | ‘ In the light of the Divisional Court 's decision , we have naturally considered very carefully whether or not we should take the matter any further . |
| 7 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 8 | The matters obviously moved fairly rapidly because the parties were then almost ready to exchange contracts . |
| 9 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 10 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 11 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 14 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 15 | Even my wharped mind had only got as far as thinking . |
| 16 | REBEL sea captain Jack Lammiman set sail from Whitby on his greatest journey yet to America but only got as far as Scarborough . |
| 17 | Yet today eunuchs have apparently died out everywhere except in the subcontinent . |
| 18 | The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 . |
| 19 | The discount — the Achilles heel of the system — would be better abandoned now rather than later . ’ |
| 20 | It had only woken up again when it had been brought into the Store , near electricity . |
| 21 | To make matters even more complicated , there are two quite distinct kinds of mood-change , for the cat 's pupils will become greatly enlarged not only when it sees something pleasant but also when it sees something terribly threatening . |
| 22 | The relative costs of bus , coach and rail fares since 1975 have all increased more rapidly than the costs of running a private car or motorcycle . |
| 23 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 24 | He added : ‘ This has all taken rather longer than we anticipated . |
| 25 | The difficult and often contradictory principles of this age-long argument were memorably expressed as early as Plato 's version of the Apology of Socrates and , with a different bearing , in his Republic . |
| 26 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 27 | In 1945 , papers in Bath , Carlisle , Darlington , Scarborough and North Shields all published not more than 15,000 copies a day ( the Scarborough Evening News published 8,000 ) . |
| 28 | It 's got these tight sleeves that look too short and the bottom bit is all bunched up so when she turns it all billows out . |
| 29 | This is the principle , though it is rarely done as nakedly as this . |
| 30 | Seeing that the independents would be slowly strangled so long as they relied exclusively upon the British circuits , he sought to establish connections to Hollywood . |