Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 2 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |
| 3 | It should be noted that just as all deputies combined a school-wide responsibility with teaching a class , so most combined a major school-wide responsibility from the first list above with one or more of those from the second list . |
| 4 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |
| 5 | Pascale Bachmann and colleagues , of the Institut fur Polymere in Zurich , have apparently successfully devised a series of elegant systems that would appear to fulfil the criteria of simple chemical autopoiesis . |
| 6 | The French , the Dutch , and the Spanish were ready to attack them , and over so widely scattered a set of islands the attacker would always find some weak spot to invade and devastate . |
| 7 | During much of the period leading up to this time the Panel had been considering the case of the large South Ronaldsay family whose father had been imprisoned — the family of fifteen children who so badly needed a positive and sympathetic solution to their problems . |
| 8 | Maybe not so much lost a never cultivated . |
| 9 | In 1949 , for example , it emerged before the Lynskey Tribunal that George Gibson , the chairman of the North Western Board , had somewhat unwisely accepted a gift of clothing from the flamboyant contact man , Sidney Stanley . |
| 10 | His widow , Anna-Maria St Albyn , did not choose to live in so isolated a place , and her great nephew , heir to the estate , was still a child . |
| 11 | The French fleet was crowded together in a confined space , and on Midsummer Day 1340 the English fleet crashed into the French ships , which were unable to deploy in so cramped a position . |
| 12 | The beautifully illuminated Gondola , which was so greatly admired a year ago , will recommence nightly voyages . |
| 13 | I better not put a star on this one though had I cos |
| 14 | On arrival the patrol members find that two men have apparently just crashed a lorry through a fence and swum across the River Spree . |
| 15 | Sun is still tinkering around with the Cypress Semiconductor Corp Ross Systems HyperSparc chip , having apparently not found a home for it yet : in benchmarks , the part outpaced the SuperSparc but by how much remains a mystery ; of course third parties people could buy the chip from Cypress direct and do their own MBus upgrades for Suns . |
| 16 | Cos he 's obviously just got a three . |
| 17 | I see , well I would of expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquor sir , they 've obviously not had a license for a month ! |
| 18 | Well I would have expected those premises not to be selling intoxicating liquors you 've obviously not had a licence for a month . |
| 19 | And that I have personally already found a problem . |
| 20 | Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes . |
| 21 | Ms Bhutto has only just survived a vote of no confidence by the opposition , when her slim and wavering majority was cut by half , partially because of the defection of four of the tribal members to opposition benches . |
| 22 | Mike , you 've only just made a come back really this year on the England side and everything . |
| 23 | The Department of Interior has only just begun a two year study to streamline the fiendishly complex sets of planning rules that govern new mining projects . |
| 24 | Nancarrow , who has only just finished a ban for venting his anger by making an obscene gesture to a referee during the British Open , was reported to the tournament director for abusing match officials , his opponent , and the court . |
| 25 | I have only once seen a serious fight between badgers , and the sounds on that occasion were terrifying . |
| 26 | Dr Tydeman said that he had only once seen a patient suffering from the condition and he found it particularly frightening and disturbing . |
| 27 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 28 | he 's only ever missed a call-out once |
| 29 | But yesterday , Susan Fey , of the CTC Trust , said , ‘ We were only ever given a target of 20 . |
| 30 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |