Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer : Levi has said he plays professionally only so that he can indulge his other interests . |
| 2 | And the believer agrees all too easily that he or she must indeed have this sort of proof if belief is to be possible . |
| 3 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 4 | He goes all right then and he tells him . |
| 5 | It goes together as simply as a child 's building blocks |
| 6 | It is his 81st , is dedicated to the pit communities for which he still cares so deeply even though the pits have all but vanished , and costs £1 for a miner 's sideways look at life which is probably no more . |
| 7 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
| 8 | However , results of an experiment published just before Christmas show in clearer perspective than ever before that quantum theory holds good as far as we can tell . |
| 9 | Mr Groenewald 's boast about hundreds of thousands of white soldiers assumes rather too blithely that ex-conscripts will rally to the cause . |
| 10 | There 's very little way , bearing in mind that an accident like this happens so very quickly and no doubt traffic was using all 3 carriageways on the northbound , that they could have avoided an impact . |
| 11 | At the same time look for the mixed metaphor , which occurs far too often and adds nothing ( except humour ) to the sentence . |
| 12 | But this happens far less systematically than one would expect . |
| 13 | One partner then blames , blames , and blames again both inside and outside the marriage . |
| 14 | ‘ Well if it eats half as well as a salmon , I shall be 'appy , ’ grinned Lofty , subtly reminding the others that it was he who had found the fish . |
| 15 | First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home . |
| 16 | Since a plucked hair regrows much more slowly and softly than a snipped hair , your legs stay that way for weeks and weeks . |
| 17 | But Cowan 's assertion shows all too clearly where the particular problem lies in the case of this ruler . |
| 18 | Perhaps the notice could be altered to indicate that the path leads only as far as the river . |
| 19 | This would explain the one-to-one ratio of infection that exists just as clearly as heterosexual intercourse . |
| 20 | Since March the dogs have competed in a mixture of open and championship shows as far afield as Leeds , Doncaster and Stafford and the occasional show close to home . |
| 21 | However , organisations like the Council for the Protection of Rural England are likely to remain opposed to further rural housing development which it sees as both socially and environmentally damaging . |
| 22 | At this point you realise that you either need one computer to generate the images and a second to handle the transfer of these to the film recorder or you buy a bulk film pack ( which at over £6,000 costs as much again as the PCR/SlideWriter ! ) and run the imaging process overnight . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Edward exercised his regalian rights in vacant sees even more forcefully than his father had done . |
| 24 | If you have a supply of Duckweed — or Indian Fern , which grows almost as fast as Duckweed in my tanks — you can use this to advantage , as it will supply relatively-natural vegetable food and can , unlike plants which need to be rooted to thrive , be easily replaced . |
| 25 | Steel , however , rusts much more quickly than wrought iron . |
| 26 | Mecdi , however , states just as unequivocally that Molla Arab became Fahreddin Acemi 's muid at the Darulhadis . |
| 27 | The great benefit of the two-stroke is that , at any given engine speed , it fires twice as frequently as a four-stroke with the same number of cylinders . |
| 28 | This is easiest with an electric beater as it takes twice as long as you expect . |
| 29 | For this reason , the algorithm needs to scan backward as well as forward , and therefore takes twice as long as the simple algorithm . |
| 30 | All seems so long ago and far away . |