Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [verb] [adj] " 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 What is the difference between a candidate who performs inadequately , though he tackles quite difficult questions , and one who performs well though he tackles only specially selected easy questions , questions that do not for example raise any issue about linear or non-linear , progressive or retrogressive change ?
3 Alaska has rarely decisively elected any mainstream candidate .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Third , the so-called ‘ welfare state ’ has so far appeared unable to remedy any but the grossest forms of economic and social deprivation or effectively to restrict the range of wider socio-economic inequalities , in spite of the fiscal burden imposed on the population and the productive system as a whole .
7 The taskforce has so far charged 544 defendants and won 385 convictions .
8 The DTI has so far prosecuted 15 insider dealing cases involving 21 people since 1981 in which eight have resulted in not guilty verdicts .
9 Robins has so far scored seven goals after Ferguson sold him to Norwich for a cut-price £800,000 on the eve of the season .
10 The Jade fund to buy equipment for the special care baby unit has so far raised three thousand pounds
11 The Advanced Courses Development Programme has so far involved two phases of pilot courses , each phase having represented a stage in the progression from the current Advanced Courses system to a system based on the principles in the Policy Paper .
12 The relevance of such multiple sensory realities to conventional evolutionary theory has so far remained unconsidered .
13 The pattern of ultrasonics at Rollright has so far remained elusive .
14 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 .
15 The only state that has so far escaped severe drought is Western Australia .
16 Japanese money alone has so far created 4 1/2 thousand new jobs .
17 This is a key aspect of the refugee question which has so far received inadequate attention .
18 It says it has so far received nine orders for the multiprocessor S-MP superservers , which start at $500,000 and are designed to support Sparc-based workstations .
19 Liquid stool incontinence has so far received little attention .
20 A further 210 families have made appointments and a special helpline set up to deal with inquiries from worried parents has so far received 137 calls .
21 Indeed , there is so much dissatisfaction with that union from within the prison service that another union , the Prison Service Union , is being set up and I understand that it has so far received 1,000 pledges from prospective members .
22 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 .
23 The club has so far played two games and is undefeated .
24 Britain has so far accepted 2,000 .
25 Disappointingly , the committee has so far felt able to recommend only a tiny step towards establishing acceptable levels of medical staffing in the NHS .
26 Mrs Weber has so far undergone 200 hours of questioning , and is admitting nothing .
27 Thijs Lijbregts , who took over from Rinus Michels after Holland won the European Championship , has the additional pressure of managing one of the fancied teams while his best player , Ruud Gullit , is struggling to recover from a knee injury that has so far necessitated four operations and is threatening his career .
28 The feud has so far claimed five lives .
29 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 .
30 He has so far helped some 15 people on their way .
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