Example sentences of "[det] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said this suspiciously blandly and Meredith glowered at him . |
| 2 | She said this so seriously that Oliver decided it must be true . |
| 3 | Some much longer than others . |
| 4 | Once the basic outline of the artist 's sketches were reproduced , it was up to a team of colourists , some obviously better than others , to colour the 200 or so copies of each plate . |
| 5 | He knew this not just because Uncle Titch said he had — you could n't believe anything a grown-up told you , and Uncle Titch belonged to the world of grown-ups even if he was n't — but because of the tricks he could do . |
| 6 | Some players seem able to do this more easily than others . |
| 7 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 8 | Sentences and words also require interpretation — indeed they would seem to require this more obviously than pictures — and so we 're back on the circle of infinite regress . |
| 9 | If one has to identify a stimulus — for instance a word - then one can accomplish this more quickly if presentation of the word is immediately preceded by an associated word or picture . |
| 10 | This research demonstrates the need to take all referrals seriously and questions how feasible it is to prioritize child abuse referrals by source in deciding whether to investigate some more urgently than others . |
| 11 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 12 | As such it was duly added to the membership roll of the contraption known as the United Nations , which asserts that all nations are equal ( albeit some more so than others ) , with one vote each , just as if they were individual human beings in a right-little tight-little democratic State . |
| 13 | In our consideration of technology and the production of particular artefacts we have been considering portable items which would have been of assistance to everyday life , some more so than others . |
| 14 | Each aspect of party and leader images varied in a different way , some more predictably than others . |
| 15 | Cutting the small figures to an equal depth , the sculptor found himself forced to consider their three-dimensionality , to think of them as statues ; and it is this probably rather than emulation of the terror-masks that makes so many of them turn to look at us . |
| 16 | There are thousands of Wealden houses which survive , though few as early as Pattenden . |
| 17 | That having been said , it is true that attack is predicted by other postures only about half as well as escape . |
| 18 | Certain forms of writing , such as academic articles , extend this even further and writers are required to develop skills in explicitness , and in being aware of hidden assumptions , so that readers who have not directly had the writer 's experience may understand it . |
| 19 | The biggest losers were Germany 's Mercedes-Benz , Sweden 's Volvo and Spain 's Seat , all down more than 30% . |
| 20 | He 'd be a fool to throw it all away now that SA are back in business . |
| 21 | There was little chance of being on his side at all as far as Maggie was concerned . |
| 22 | But she was n't any help at all as far as Evans was concerned . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ We 're all back together and things can only get better if we start winning again . ’ |
| 24 | The hotel has a gorgeous pool , glassed all around so that bathers can watch the peaks turning pink in the evening sun . |
| 25 | A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 . |
| 26 | The point is that as far as room bookings are concerned |
| 27 | It also urges Government departments and agencies to get together more often so that schemes can be streamlined and integrated . |
| 28 | ‘ The figures we found are not significantly different to those anywhere else where people are looking for the problem . ’ |
| 29 | Russell Reynolds has achieved the highest fee income in the British market through adapting to the British way of doing things whilst retaining an American approach to marketing and business development ; it has achieved the former as effectively as Spencer Stuart and the latter as profitably as Korn/Ferry , to produce a combination more successful than either . |
| 30 | And would she be any better off than Miss Ernestine Baker , at the end of it , without Daniel ? |