Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But selling Beatles records was the easy part , since EMI Records basically still did all the distribution work . |
| 2 | Alaska has rarely decisively elected any mainstream candidate . |
| 3 | On many occasions I have heard environmentalists say that they do not wish to be ‘ tarred by the same brush ’ which has so comprehensively covered some extremists in the Animal Rights Movement and which has brought that movement into disrepute . |
| 4 | Research in the social sciences as a whole has so far done little to establish the relative strength of the effects of past and present on self-esteem . |
| 5 | During the day he can often be seen looking like an overgrown pit pony in a thin , rather dirty New Zealand rug which has so far survived all his attempts at removal . |
| 6 | Liquid stool incontinence has so far received little attention . |
| 7 | While the diesel option has become popular among owners of off-roaders like the Discovery and the Mitsubishi Shogun , it has so far made little progress in the executive car class . |
| 8 | Although her twenty-six-year-old boyfriend has an income from his job managing a shop , he has so far taken little interest and no responsibility for her or the baby . |
| 9 | He has so far helped some 15 people on their way . |
| 10 | We will safeguard the abatement negotiated by Mrs Thatcher which has so far brought some £12,000 million in budget rebates to Britain . |
| 11 | The truth is that the East German leadership has so far shown all too few signs of wanting to change . |
| 12 | While SunNet Manager is widely used in local network-based and local network interconnect environments , it has so far had little support in wide area networking and telecommunications , where Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView is seen to have won greater interest . |
| 13 | While SunNet Manager is widely used in local network-based and local network interconnect environments , it has so far had little support in wide area networking and telecommunications , where Hewlett-Packard Co 's OpenView is seen to have won greater interest . |
| 14 | The negotiations — and with them USL 's desire to conserve cash and pretty up its balance sheet as much as possible — might explain why it has so far put little muscle into marketing Destiny since its announcement in June ( UX No 390 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ No prospect of the green shoots of economic recovery ’ , said Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson ; ‘ new hardcover literary fiction , unless by well-established authors , will sell , if that is possible , even fewer copies , to the point of virtual extinction ’ , said Tom Rosenthal ; ‘ fiction … has long since become all by a branch of gynaecology ’ , said Colin Haycraft . |
| 16 | The whole PWL format has long since lost any spark of life and songs like ‘ Too Much Of A Good Thing ’ and ‘ Finer Feelings ’ are simply uninspiring , totally predictable and tedious . |
| 17 | ( An annual outing to the seaside has long ago displaced this occasion . ) |
| 18 | No longer in the calendar with a prime week of its own , an event which has only just survived this year through a last minute rescue sponsorship package , will hardly be able to reduce its prize money in 1993 from the $1m it already pays to the Double-Up new minimum of $625,000 , even though it will no longer be guaranteed even one of the top ten ranked or other leading box office players . |
| 19 | ‘ Indeed , Gwynedd County Council originally opposed the restoration of the Ffestiniog , and has only recently shown any inclination to approve the full restoration of the Welsh Highland Railway . ’ |
| 20 | Roland lives long enough to see all his followers die , and also to see the last remnants of the Saracen army void the field in confused rout , and then he dies . |
| 21 | The company has reportedly had more success with another product , KLEA-134a , which does not contain chlorine , does not attack the ozone layer and has thus far passed all toxicity tests . |
| 22 | Other reports implicating the Iranian government itself in the assassination were denied on Aug. 12 by a Foreign Ministry spokesman who said that " Iran has always strongly condemned any terrorist act " . |
| 23 | It shows that Labour , despite the recession and abandoning many Left-wing policies , has still not made any significant advance with the voters . |
| 24 | Almost three years after his appointment as chairman and chief executive , Sir Kit McMahon has still not solved any of Midland 's three core problems : a big third-world-debt portfolio , high costs , and low-yielding assets . |
| 25 | has also not received any mail since our arrival . |
| 26 | Antony has turned the tables completely and has now completely destroyed all hopes of the conspirators ever establishing themselves in Rome . |
| 27 | But to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear yours , to be mingling identities with you as it were , — the vision-wearing fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but hope never dared whisper a promise . |
| 28 | To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’ |
| 29 | Let me add that , in taking recent decisions concerning rural areas , the Home Office has almost invariably supported those who have felt that rural courthouses should be kept open . |
| 30 | She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas . |