Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dependence on each of these drugs was also recognized rather slowly and perhaps reluctantly . |
| 2 | And it 's Abingdon street fair , the High Street and Ock Street are closed , and that 's er , traffic 's been diverted locally today and tomorrow . |
| 3 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 4 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 5 | His room in Leeds was with a Mrs Hubble at 21 Ladysmith Road , and on the return journey he had stopped only once and again at the Merrie England . |
| 6 | That comes automatically , together with iced water , before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you , and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe . |
| 7 | The canal cut through that flat , agricultural landscape , its monotony broken only here and there by a farmhouse or a barn , until the closed Lock gates dammed it up . |
| 8 | Things are not altered so quickly or coarsely by common people as they are by fashionable people … |
| 9 | His arm , at first placed so firmly and impersonally around her , relaxed and instead his hand moved at her waist , caressing its curve . |
| 10 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |
| 11 | But the illusion of success within the contras , reach , a success that was in the world 's interests , was fostered most carefully and covertly . |
| 12 | Brian Roper 's unsuccessful spot kick perpetuated the agony for the Donegal boys who had once again come so near and yet so far , losing their third final in a row . |
| 13 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |
| 14 | The legal method involves the effort to apply rules fairly without regard to the comparative political and military strengths of the disputants , so that the goal of order is approached only obliquely or indirectly in the actual judicial process . |
| 15 | The intervening years must have rolled away uneventfully and only much nearer our time do records appear of the development of village life . |
| 16 | I hope it can be resolved sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 17 | Indirect taxes can be varied more quickly and easily , taking more immediate effect , than can direct taxes . |
| 18 | Physical exercise : When you take regular physical exercise your circulation improves and therefore oxygen is carried more easily and rapidly to the brain . |
| 19 | The rate at which the economy can grow is now constrained more directly and immediately than ever before by the extent to which exports rise relative to import penetration . |
| 20 | The results of these surveys are given in the table , and show that 18 sites held Great Crested Grebes regularly in the breeding season and five sites , which were not occupied in 1975 , are probably occupied more often than not . |
| 21 | A local tribunal would decide on the advisability of such a move in each particular circumstance , and the members ' common sense would ensure that applications were considered both prudently and sensitively . |
| 22 | Diary and news magazine programmes : These too are organised both nationally and regionally by the BBC and networked by the independent companies . |
| 23 | This is due , in part , to the ability of the powerful to criminalise and stigmatise that which threatens their interests ; and to the fact that basic motivations of capitalist societies , such as materialism and self-enrichment , can be pursued both legally and illegally . |
| 24 | In particular , stresses set up in such samples can be relieved in all directions whereas stresses in bedrock are much more concentrated since the rock is confined both laterally and vertically . |
| 25 | Born in London , he was educated partly privately and partly at the Tyndall Park School for the Deaf and Dumb , Bristol . |
| 26 | To ensure that all issues presented to the court are considered as fairly and expeditiously as possible and are seen to be so . |
| 27 | Also , on many occasions , I have telephoned as late as 7.15pm only to hear ‘ today 's ’ forecast — at a cost of some 50–60p — but with no hint of when it will actually be updated with the outlook for tomorrow . |
| 28 | A Security Council vote to enforce its no-fly zone declaration had been expected as early as yesterday but it was postponed because of arduous negotiations over a final text , including the grace period before shoot-down or other orders could be issued . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ All the changes I have made to the course are straightforward and have really been designed visually rather than penally — in other words , if someone is playing well , they will be rewarded . ’ |
| 30 | And one of the things that I 'm not sure we have addressed adequately now and perhaps wo n't this evening is how to get people into the theatre and I really thing that it would be worthwhile trying to find out stops people coming in . |