Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 2 | They sit only so long as they continue to hold episcopal office . |
| 3 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 4 | The only shapes that fit together so closely that all their walls are common with those of their neighbours are triangles , squares and hexagons . |
| 5 | If your crops fail , or grow much less prolifically than your neighbour 's , then it is due to witchcraft . |
| 6 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 7 | And you know this brings another important aspect up which is very important about communications , erm you know we 've jollied along talking about what communication is making sure people know you know what you want etcetera etcetera etcetera but also do n't forget that different people can have different perceptions of the same same things but as I say here we are we sat here we done we 've done about an hour an hour and a half on written communications and yet you know when we passed the papers around it has n't been too bad but there has been different things that people have gone for both in the writing of these reports and both in the marking of them as well . |
| 8 | And he believes that West German voters may revolt when they realise still more clearly that they will have to foot the bill for unity . |
| 9 | Gas imports will reach some 70 MTOE by 1990 but grow more slowly subsequently as gas supplies from Alaska increase . |
| 10 | I I I say probably quite definitely that there is not a great linkage between the Greater York area in numeric terms and and all of Humberside , compared to that linkage erm with with with West Yorkshire . |
| 11 | Split red lentils , smaller and milder , cook even more quickly and soon turn to ‘ mush ’ — so keep an eye on them , if you intend to use them in salads . |
| 12 | It does seem that photographs of black convicted rapists appear proportionately more often than those of white rapists . |
| 13 | V.W. Yes , I mean that 's something that when I first started I would n't have said , but I 've seen over the last six years changes in the governors and the role of the governors and I sense very much so that now they want Catholic appointments . |
| 14 | The slow twitch fibres react much more slowly and are more resistant to fatigue , producing greater endurance . |
| 15 | If you wait long enough then when it finishes this large task everything will work as normal . |
| 16 | I had started to fear that each of us controls the manner in which we die much more closely than is generally supposed . |
| 17 | Indeed , as Evers ( 1984 ) found in her study , old people who in objective terms may be described as severely disabled may continue to perform these services , such as preparing the evening meal , and many function domestically more competently than those who are less physically impaired . |
| 18 | The question facing women 's studies today is the extent to which she has , in the last decade , matured into the dutiful daughter of the white patriarchal university — a daughter who threw tantrums and played the tomboy when she was younger , but who has now learned to wear a dress and speak and act almost as nicely as Daddy wants her to . |
| 19 | When there is a fair breeze blowing , walk very slowly backwards and take the model with you . |
| 20 | Neither stand so far away that it can not pick up your voice . |
| 21 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 22 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Teams fighting against relegation sometimes scrap just as hard as teams challenging for promotion . |
| 23 | This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him . |
| 24 | Yet life is a dream-metaphor , which we create just as surely as we create our dreams — and our Higher Self will often communicate through ‘ mundane ’ everyday events . |
| 25 | I am terrified and run home as fast as I can . |
| 26 | Nobody seems to have put astronomy near chemistry ; and the trouble with all series is that progress often seems to happen on the frontiers of sciences that on the philosopher 's map seem as far apart as Finland and Portugal . |
| 27 | If they 're offered at very long odds , the statistics demonstrate even more clearly although the odds are long they 're not long enough to make the be fair . |
| 28 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 29 | As shown in Figure 2 , the CEO sets strategic goals that look ahead as far as 25 years and manages executive vice-presidents ( EVPs ) with responsibility for 12- to 15-year development programs . |
| 30 | Labour groups meet significantly more frequently than Conservative groups ( Widdicombe , 1986 , para. 6.59 ) . |