Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dundee United mastered the elements better than their opponents and had in Ferguson , Scott Crabbe and Paddy Connolly lively players who continue to give the impression that Jim McLean is not far off having a team capable of far better than has been seen from his club in recent seasons . |
| 2 | The environment we live in must also be protected sources of pollution must be located and stopped employers clearly held liable for their actions and dealt with as severely as allowed by law . |
| 3 | Yet Poulantzas ' wish to argue hypothetically is peculiarly revealing ; for as well as drawing attention to the slight explanatory power of his theory it raises the third of the questions with which I began — the question of whether he has really succeeded in casting off voluntarism . |
| 4 | For as well as maintaining stately homes and castes , the National Trust is in the holiday home business . |
| 5 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 6 | Laura , desperately disappointed , tried to be a polite hostess for as long as required but when she finally retired found Bernard had locked the bedroom door . |
| 7 | Unemployment benefit is limited to only one year , and , unlike other national insurance benefits , such as an old-age pension , can not be drawn for as long as needed . |
| 8 | As soon as one person 's work has been built into the computer , it stays there and goes on working for as long as needed . |
| 9 | No party of more than three Black-necked Grebes has been noted since 1960 , and most reports are now of single birds ; these occur inland about as often as do Slavonian Grebes . |
| 10 | The more closely the dynamics behind mass unrest are examined , the clearer it becomes that mass political militancy was generated from below rather than whipped up from above , and that ‘ intelligentsia initiative was successful only when it reflected … basic popular impulse . ’ |
| 11 | A structure and meaning to the day has to be found from inside rather than imposed from outside . |
| 12 | Indeed , in so far as knowing the ‘ cause ’ would restrict our reading of the poems , it is the one piece of information we can probably do without . ’ |
| 13 | In one condition of their experiment nonsense sequences followed a structural pattern of English in so far as replacing the nonsense stems by English stems would have resulted in a grammatically correct sequence . |
| 14 | On the application of both defendants Wright J. set aside the order in so far as related to such disclosure on the ground that it infringed their privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 15 | At the lowest level in the TNC hierarchy , the operatives , there is clearly a reputational element at work , in so far as working for a company that has an international name appears to mean something positive for most people . |
| 16 | If one also supposed that only one or two electrons could orbit at any one of these distances , this would solve the problem of the collapse of the atom , because the electrons could not spiral in any farther than to fill up the orbits with the least distances and energies . |
| 17 | So , there 's probably going to be a little bit of ink left in here rather than opening those . |
| 18 | er four E , we said er in that recommendation at least two million on minor work on footways meaning that er two million was by no means what we needed to spend , erm , is it in fact regarded from a point of view of , of Bedford seeing this paper and our recommendations that er acceptable is a more diplomatic word to put in there rather than increase er as increase likely to cause certain principal in the present , erm economic employment . |
| 19 | JOHN SMITHS HAS dominated the Glasgow bookselling scene for even longer than Thins has been preeminent in Edinburgh , but there are differences . |
| 20 | There was considerable substance in the complaints of Labour that national insurance added to as well as diminished the burdens of poorer workers . |
| 21 | Cost-benefit for performing cardiac transplantation on such seriously ill patients may be looked at more objectively when follow up is longer . |
| 22 | Every roof has an individual character — so you can be sure of an investment that ; s lovely to look at as well as adding to the value of your building . |
| 23 | Stressing the apparent universality , intractability and unacceptability of the problem of violence , the theories prominent in Anglo-Saxon lay ideas focus strongly on the irrationality and bestiality of violence … the approach to violence advocated in the discipline of ethology — in which violence is seen at least partly as having genetic determinants — is rather close to Anglo-Saxon folk ideas . |
| 24 | That quality , at least initially when combined with other innovation being imposed on the school system , is likely to lead to a distraction of the teachers ' time from the sort of effortless teaching strategies , hard won over decades , as they are drawn into the steep learning curve of the unfamiliar new language of the National Curriculum and its assessment . |
| 25 | If the European Court of Human Rights had confirmed the view of the Commission , changes in the law would have been called for , at least so as to allow for alteration of all relevant documentation . |
| 26 | I was 33 by then and played till the end of the season , which was at least better than going out on an injury . ’ |
| 27 | Later , in November 1918 , all internal and foreign trade was nationalised , the latter having little practical significance at that time , since foreign trade had by then all but ceased in those parts of the country in the control of the Soviets . |