Example sentences of "[indef pn] [adv] [vb -s] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody really knows how many barn owls there are left in this country , but various factors have contributed to their decline . |
| 2 | A substantial part of this firewood is brought in from the villages to be sold in the cities , although nobody really knows how much . |
| 3 | Well nobody else moans so much . |
| 4 | If you 're going away , pack only half the clothes you think you 'll want — everyone always takes too much ! |
| 5 | ‘ Everything just gets more ridiculous . ’ |
| 6 | No one really knows very much about Christopher Columbus 's background . |
| 7 | One often sees much worse bunching than this , where notes hardly have room to move . ) |
| 8 | I always use this kind of music as part of the test sequence ; here it had an extraordinary naturalness , a quite seamless integration from bass to soprano , which one immediately recognises as true . |
| 9 | Having broken the ice , the shy one then feels more confident to contribute on his own later . |
| 10 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 11 | It would be counter-productive to include a clause which no-one really regards as appropriate to the particular circumstances of the firm just because that clause is commonly found in the precedent books : better by far to leave it out until agreement on a satisfactory alternative can be agreed . |
| 12 | School A — ‘ Everybody just seems so disillusioned ’ |
| 13 | Everybody just seems so disillusioned … everybody seems fed up … the staff as a whole , I mean . |
| 14 | Virtually nothing else uses very much . |
| 15 | That is , the student may improve his or her performance by 100 per cent , but if everyone else improves similarly this grade will be no higher than before . |
| 16 | But the jamboree could well turn into one of those parties where half the guests fail to turn up , and everyone else tries terribly hard to pretend that they are having a marvellous time . |
| 17 | But no-one yet knows why this is happening . |