Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kustar' system , which recovered much faster than heavy industry , had 122 arteli in the city in 1922 . |
| 2 | But the local publican told Jane that these maligned outsiders behaved much better than drunk Councillors . |
| 3 | I waved my arms and shouted as loudly as possible . |
| 4 | They innovated as far as possible under the 1948 Act but eventually secured a further Act , in 1963 , which legitimated ‘ preventive ’ work . |
| 5 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 6 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 7 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 8 | ‘ The measure as revised by the committee tried as hard as possible to accommodate the views of those who object to women priests . |
| 9 | To Branson 's irritation , McLaren prevaricated as long as possible , affecting the disinterest of an ingénue being courted by a philanderer . |
| 10 | The oppressive regime I had anticipated was not apparent and the whole complex seemed clean , active and designed as far as possible to provide reasonable conditions and amenities for its inmates . |
| 11 | Instead , I invested in my future by buying a word processor and kept on those visits from counsellor and healer and maintained as far as possible — even over Christmas itself — my ‘ stay well ’ diet . |
| 12 | Facts were to do with the material conditions of life described as precisely as possible and counted as accurately as possible . |
| 13 | She rose even earlier than usual next morning . |
| 14 | This seems more like an eroticism created by rather than repressed by the social bond . |
| 15 | Overall , therefore , hourly productivity probably rose significantly faster than yearly productivity , though measuring hours of work is difficult , especially in the self-employed sector . |
| 16 | They got away earlier than usual , and the river is suitable for a fairly fast run . ’ |
| 17 | According to the report , the managers ‘ passed through rather than spent time in the kitchen ’ . |
| 18 | The new discs were also hill-and-dale , recorded with a relatively fine groove-pitch of 150 lines per inch , so a ten-inch side played rather longer than usual ( about five minutes ) . |
| 19 | But frequently the correct partial solution scored less well than other incorrect interpretations over the same stretch of sound , though later information was able to raise the score of the path that included the correct partial solution . |
| 20 | ‘ Apparently his boat came in sooner than expected and docked at Shields , and he came up to the house hoping to see my sister , and he did . |
| 21 | One day , a few weeks after Granny 's funeral , Mary came home earlier than usual from work . |
| 22 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 23 | There seemed more around than usual . |
| 24 | Ranitidine reduced both upright and supine reflux and an additional reduction of supine reflux was produced by the combination with cisapride . |
| 25 | Foinavon passed the post with his ears pricked and that night he ate up just as usual . |
| 26 | In all these activities the place of the elderly client in the family network should be maintained and enhanced as far as possible . |
| 27 | We obtained directions and drove as rapidly as possible to the rival meeting . |
| 28 | I do n't need food ’ , and the sub-text , admitted only to myself and ignored as far as possible , read , ‘ I 'm starving . ’ |
| 29 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 30 | All this reinforced Attlee 's determination to get a new governor installed as soon as possible . |