Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 2 | He claims these reptiles make superb pets as they sit incredibly still for hours and then go on the rampage — very much like Pest Control staff ! |
| 3 | Lord 's connection with his ground ceased rather abruptly in 1825 . |
| 4 | With so many commitments it is understandable that he ceased rather early in his career to show his work in public exhibitions , but he still found time to pursue other interests . |
| 5 | Again and again he swiped at Chloe , but she remained convinced that this was a game and every time her friend approached she darted away and went to sit somewhere else in the clearing , her tail brushing the ground frantically . |
| 6 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 7 | He could see the Quattro 's tail-lights drawing slowly away from him in stop-start jerky movements . |
| 8 | Olsen has therefore concentrated on four periods when the paintings connect most directly with historic events : from 1797 to 1814 when Napoleon 's Empire imposed a kind of unity on the country ; from the restoration of the monarchy until mid century when historic Romanticism came into conflict with Realism and gradually waned as a moving force in Italian art ; the triumph of Realism in parallel with the rapid progress towards unification from 1849 to 1870 ; and the final period from 1870 until the end of the century when Realism evolved under wider European influences into Symbolism and Divisionism . |
| 9 | This image presumably registered most strongly among those sections of the population whose exposure to ideological ‘ schooling ’ was greatest — particularly , therefore , among committed members of the Party and its affiliates . |
| 10 | It arose most acutely in the United States which welcomed immigrants but also put pressure on them to turn themselves into English-speaking American citizens as soon as possible , since any rational citizen would wish to be an American . |
| 11 | In other words , unemployment has fallen most sharply in those areas where it was least severe . |
| 12 | Rates have fallen most sharply in the South East , where the going rate now averages £3.80 a week , £1.40 less than last year . |
| 13 | Another of UnivEd 's functions is the formation of campus companies through which products and processes discovered by staff can be developed commercially together with industrial partners . |
| 14 | Signed to a major label , The Wedding Present sit rather awkwardly on the edge of acceptance into mainstream pop . |
| 15 | Ralph sat in the driving seat of his car , inching slowly forward with the snaking traffic jam stretching along the road . |
| 16 | She was longing to go somewhere away from all this , among people who did n't know her , quiet and dark where nothing happened . |
| 17 | The reduction in costs which this has achieved has enabled the business to perform most satisfactorily in what has been a very difficult year in all its major markets . |
| 18 | The lack of a goalkeeper was exposed most harshly at Felton on Saturday . |
| 19 | Vowels are recognized most effectively as part of the pattern and rhythm of the whole sentence . |
| 20 | There immediately followed the hearing of the present application , argued most ably before us by Mr. Browne on behalf of C.N.L. and by Mr. Stephen Richards for the P.C.A. |
| 21 | Something else I 've left hanging rather dangerously in the air is another and rather different hint , and because of the close correspondence of their careers , the milestones along their way , Stephen Daedalus is merely another name for James Joyce , so that the portrait itself would be a blow by blow account of its author 's story so far , with the relevant identities politely concealed under pseudonyms . |
| 22 | Help them to stick up for themselves and see that it is not worth being treated badly just in order to have a best friend . |
| 23 | ( iii ) The submissive face : made most frequently by foals , and then by yearlings , but only rarely by mature horses . |
| 24 | Another misconception made most frequently by pupils in the middle or just below the middle of the complete attainment spectrum , is to regard the " longest " decimal ( or the larger of two equally " long " ones ) as the smallest , that is 0.089 in the item given above . |
| 25 | The instrumental rationale for the specialized academic course depends on the distinction between the process and content of a discipline , a distinction made most succinctly by Bruner ( 1968 , p. 72 ) : |
| 26 | The case for women to eschew marriage was , of course , made most forcefully by Mary Astell who , unlike Roxana , was not inclined to consider the merits of being a mistress . |
| 27 | She left the Tyne yesterday for six days of sea trials and ‘ our worry is that it will not come back to the river but will be completed somewhere else in the UK ’ , he said . |
| 28 | I think that black kids are treated rather badly in this school , for example , there are less black kids in the ‘ A ’ band . |
| 29 | Many thatched cottages were built on the brow of a hill overlooking the sea ; and a large potato-field , divided into elongated sections , gave ample scope for many Lewis families to prove that union is strength , for they were busily engaged lifting the crop : each family group was complete in itself ; those who had the most children got most quickly over the ground : many hands make light work , and young backs bend easily . |
| 30 | Speculation about his death centred most persistently on financial worries . |