Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 2 | Most of these bars have live music , and all have staggered happy hours ( or is it happy stagger hour ? ! ) , so with a bit of forward planning we make sure your budget goes as far as possible . |
| 3 | The Anisminic decision goes much further than this and says in effect that A 's decision can be set aside by the courts if they disagree with his interpretation of the rules which he is required to apply . |
| 4 | Although some of the distinctive lexis of the London variety of Jamaican Creole may have its origins in Rasta speech , there is no clear evidence that Rastafarian influence on the structure of the Creole goes any further than that . |
| 5 | The lower marble fragment from Delos stood in the same way , and no doubt the upper also ; and throughout the archaic age the naked male statue stands always just as these . |
| 6 | Daddy 's driven after you , but I did n't think he would catch you up because your car goes much faster than his . ’ |
| 7 | The copula occurs as frequently as twelve times ( out of sixty-five main verbs ) , and other categories of verb which are prominent include those denoting attitudes ( hesitated , liked , treating , etc ) , cognitions ( known , supposed , reflected , etc ) , speech acts ( speak , repeated , address , invited , etc ) , and perceptions ( hear , looked , appear , etc ) . |
| 8 | When it aids the excitation field , the entry into saturation occurs slightly earlier and the departure from saturation occurs slightly later than would be the case . |
| 9 | Through its national resources centre , by collaboration with university departments and other academics , community-based and government bodies , in promoting conferences , workshops and seminars , and supporting a visiting fellows programme , CRER hopes to disseminate its research results as widely as possible . |
| 10 | Although I am sure that the Publishers Association is sincere in wishing to manage the book club rules as tightly as it manages the Net Book Agreement , we are all aware of the increasing confidence of the book clubs , who are bound to accelerate their invasion into the territory that booksellers have regarded as theirs . |
| 11 | For really large systems this will have the consequence that the only paths which contribute significantly to the final result will be those in a region where the action changes as slowly as possible , since here the cancellations are minimised . |
| 12 | In addition these dissociation profiles appear to demonstrate that the enhanced DNase I cleavage disappears more slowly than the actual footprint . |
| 13 | Methotrexate works more quickly than mercaptopurine and azathioprine , and steroid sparing has been shown to be one of its advantages . |
| 14 | The first spin-off effect arises quite simply because of the difficulty of defining exactly what is a package holiday or tour . |
| 15 | This tendency to catch and pull happens most often when approaching the workpiece , but with experience I found this can be avoided easily by working against the rotation . |
| 16 | The Act goes no further than requiring that , where there is disagreement over accuracy , the fact that there is such disagreement must be recorded . |
| 17 | The US Fair Credit Reporting Act goes somewhat further than this . |
| 18 | It was repaired under warranty but recently we have noticed the engine crackles very loudly when we slow down after a journey of several miles . |
| 19 | In fact , the Committee goes so far as to assert that business and industry have no distinctive educational needs , and is thereby able to collapse point 2 in its terms of reference ( " the needs of business , the professions and the public services " ) into point 1 ( " the requirements of a liberal education " ) . |
| 20 | The session starts around 2pm when the old faithfuls sit back and wallow in nostalgia as they listen to their favourite bands and singers Chick Henderson is always high on the list of course or dance to the records , spinning at 78rpm . |
| 21 | It is also very good with a buoyant or pop-up boilie set-up and for long range work casts slightly better than the side-hooked option . |
| 22 | My Boss says as far as he 's concerned a crêche is a motor accident in Kelvinside and any self respecting woman should have a good man to take care of her so its only pinmoney anyway and that 's bound to come out in the attitude . |
| 23 | Instead , the separation occurs much later when the embryo is made up already of many hundreds of cells . |
| 24 | In recent years the courts have not been making compensation orders as freely as perhaps they might . |
| 25 | I guess the machine blows as well as sucks . |
| 26 | Consequently , aggressive shares have a higher expected rate of return than the market during a general increase but the return falls equally sharply when the market turns . |
| 27 | Every summer a butterfly settles there precisely where I want to sit , always in the same place . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) When the clothing lasts far longer than even the best quality jeans , and costs no more , how will the agents maintain a business based on clothes bought near enough once in a lifetime ? ( 3 ) Is anyone stupid enough to want to wear heavy-duty , fur-lined , withstands-bloody-cold-arctic-conditions clothing in the summer ? |
| 29 | The consequence is that the nonsensical at the bottom disappears as utterly as the sense in works of art at the top . |
| 30 | She explained that this figure type suits straight rather than fitted jackets but suggested Pamela avoid short boxy jackets , which would draw attention to her bust . |