Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1985 ) presented evidence that inhibitory training procedures produce a CS- that is subsequently learned about rather slowly even when the test procedure was one that required further inhibitory learning . |
| 2 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 3 | West Indian cricket has been strong for so long principally because it is looked upon almost as a religion in the Caribbean . |
| 4 | This had been a fact of Lucy 's life for so long now that she 'd almost lost her sense of its shock value , but Josie was hit by it head-on and without warning . |
| 5 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 6 | ‘ Until the day after tomorrow as far as the fireworks are concerned . |
| 7 | For in fact I , as I said I 'm glad you made that point , it does press upon the er people in Bedford yesterday , in as not as well as that , that there 's , there 's point in that er , there was some |
| 8 | After Emmie had had her bath she felt cool and clean for not much longer than five minutes ; by the time she was dressed , she was sticky and hot again . |
| 9 | The essence of what Mr Hussain said was that following the marriage he would remain in England on a settled basis as a married man for just so long as his wife dictated . |
| 10 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 11 | Why not go along with Luke 's expansive mood for just so long as it took to finish her drink ? |
| 12 | These findings , with the clinical risk study , might form a reasonable explanation for our 5 positive samples , and raise new insights that the CSF AChE-AD may not be specific for AD and may participate in the long biochemical and pathological abnormality of not only AD but also organic dementia . |
| 13 | I am no less interested to observe that , for Eliot , who always seemed unhurried , ‘ there is plenty of time ’ could mean a period of not much more than three weeks for reading ( the Strachey book being pretty long ) , writing typing and dispatching : which , given the fact that Spender 's book had not arrived , that I was teaching all day and conducting some evening classes , I still consider a tight fit . |
| 14 | He is using wisdom and er his wisdom of life or knowledge of like perhaps rather than wisdom . |
| 15 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 16 | [ Matthews et al. , 1982 ] In comparative terms , however , they testify to a poor record , the cumulative effect of which was a decline in Britain 's international economic status to a level undreamt of even as late as 1955 [ Kravis , 1976 ; Stout , 1979 ] . |
| 17 | ‘ And this may be your villa , and your bed , but if you had the minutest atom of good manners or breeding you 'd get out of here right now and let me get some clothes on ! ’ |
| 18 | She had to get out of here as soon as possible . |
| 19 | As I approached , one of them spoke with weary resignation : ‘ Would you please get this vehicle out of here as quickly as possible , sir ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I want them in and out of here as quickly as possible . |
| 21 | Obstetric physiotherapists can teach you exercises to strengthen your bladder and may also help you to move about more easily so that you can get to the lavatory more quickly . |
| 22 | Maggie 's stomach seemed to stay behind somewhere up above and her hands gripped the edge of the seat anxiously . |
| 23 | in Z. Otherwise such pedantry relating to Z was left behind as long ago as 1.2.5 . |
| 24 | And he is convinced the temperamental Frenchman — bought for £1.2 million — will have to conform to manager Alex Ferguson 's regime or else he will be dispensed with just as quickly as he was at Leeds and his other clubs . |
| 25 | Behind him , on the shelves of his dark recess , were large brown bottles criss-crossed with gold and rows of foolish otto-of-roses bottles , cut and gilt , but with hardly more inside than a thermometer . |
| 26 | There is no example of this in the Karg-Elert example , but it will be dealt with more thoroughly later when we discuss the style of free diatonicism . |
| 27 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 28 | If they were , say , a million times more common than this , then the nearest black hole to us would probably be at a distance of about a thousand million kilometers , or about as far away as Pluto , the farthest known planet . |
| 29 | The survivor ( we assume N5520 ) continued to fly on meteorological flights until perhaps as late as January 1942 . |
| 30 | A compact microwave with turntable , featuring the Twinwave system ( microwaves enter the food from below as well as from above ) . |