Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 2 | I hope it can be resolved sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Recent indications are that hard look is being applied less intensively than hitherto . |
| 8 | In 1856 the one sign he gave that peasants might be freed sooner rather than later was the suspension , in July , of the existing rules for recruitment into the army . |
| 9 | Bones with large ratios of surface area to weight , such as vertebrae , intact skulls , pelves and scapulae , were moved more readily than more compact bones such as mandibular bodies and parts of the major limb bones . |
| 10 | But many argued that evacuation had revealed more clearly than ever the existence of a degraded ‘ underclass ’ , and in the late 1940s and 1950s several inconclusive but much-publicised surveys were conducted into the precise numerical incidence of problem families in Britain . |
| 11 | Retirement continued to be good … the mind is completely empty of all great thoughts , forward plans , deadlines to be met yesterday rather than today ! |
| 12 | I believe that the linkages to the meteorological stations have operated more effectively than hitherto . |
| 13 | In 1989 activity once again expanded more rapidly than elsewhere in the EC [ gross domestic product rising to 6.2 per cent ] , unemployment [ at 1.4 per cent ] fell to its lowest level in five years , inflation remained fairly restrained [ consumer prices rose by 3.4 per cent ] , the state budget notched up a small favourable balance , and the currency account registered yet another enormous surplus [ of LF58,400 million ] . " |
| 14 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 15 | But some of the mystique surrounding the presidency had gone for ever , and future holders of the office were bound to be scrutinized more closely than ever before . |
| 16 | Now artistic intention can be seen more clearly as just one of many often overlapping strands — ideological , economic , social , political — that make up the work of art , whether literary text , painting , or sculpture . |
| 17 | Thirdly , direct royal taxes were levied more frequently than ever before , often overlapping with papal dues , and sometimes occurring twice a year and at unprecedented rates , not just a fifth instead of a tenth , but in 1294 a half ! |
| 18 | Increasingly , the process of clearing is done electronically rather than manually , the information to debit or credit individuals ' accounts being sent down the line to the various branches by computer . |
| 19 | Traffic has grown steadily rather than spectacularly during the twenty-nine years the preservation company has been operating . |
| 20 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 21 | As a result , by the end of the seventeenth century popular Anglicanism was enmeshed more closely than ever within the social fabric of the English countryside . |
| 22 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 23 | Here , relationships are prescribed formally rather than informally , thereby strengthening a manager 's capacity to control the behaviour of others . |
| 24 | For this reason , if no other , the question of censorship in libraries has to be treated more seriously than hitherto . |
| 25 | It was unlikely that any English advance-parties would in fact have got thus far as yet , but they went prepared . |
| 26 | Not only would any subsequent residential development be wonderfully placed to take advantage of the new route into the heart of the city — thereby making the houses attractive to those whose business was in the city centre — but past experience had shown more often than not that the railway barons could well pay a fortune for any land they needed . |
| 27 | A good deal of credulity and nonsense was indulged in the name of psychology but there was no nonsense about the concept of ‘ psychological obsolescence ’ , the new technique for making people dissatisfied with what they had bought more quickly than ever before . |
| 28 | It had been used more recently as well , during the Darul Islam revolutionary uprisings of the 1960s , when the bodies of execution victims were flung into the cave . |
| 29 | Although not used more often than once a year in autumn , this tool saves all the hard work involved in scarifying ( breaking up and loosening the surface of ) a lawn by hand with a lawn rake . |
| 30 | It can be interpreted more narrowly as merely calling for an incidental adjustment in the form of an annotation of the present birth register . |