Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this concern may not be wholly justified as he has been an active member of the CNAA and is known to be a keen supporter of public sector provision and an advocate of breaking down the barriers between the two sectors of higher education . |
| 2 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 3 | Were hoping to get a mini bus , I do n't think we ought take a bus because we were very badly treated when we did that , we do n't to allow ourselves open to that again , but I have written to say were hoping to get enough people to take a mini bus . |
| 4 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |
| 5 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |
| 6 | While al most all the routines work very fast indeed the Circle is amazingly slow , any suggestions as to why would be gladly received as there seems to be no obvious answer . |
| 7 | University posts , however , were an attractive means of obliging friends , and a good deal safer , for popular feeling was rarely aroused and it was relatively easy to escape from an importunate friend by arguing that the place had already been promised . |
| 8 | Anyone who knew him will gladly testify that he was a disaster behind a steering wheel . |
| 9 | The Palestinians deepest fear that their cause an independent Palestine was lost in world politics was just one reason for the launch of the Intifada nearly three years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ Still , we were only just beaten here , ’ said Hastings , bitterly upset that his team had the match stolen from them when Fox landed his 47-yard penalty with only 35 seconds of normal time left . |
| 11 | Ven exclaimed , ‘ I 've since realised that it was the beginning of the end for me ! ’ |
| 12 | The problem of the step was so little regarded that there was no standard solution in the literature and so I asked David Marsh to get one . |
| 13 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 14 | Time and again a landowner , the man who actually has the most to lose since it is his land , is willing to donate corners of his fields for ponds or tree planting , as his contribution to the environmental compromise of a land-drainage scheme ; but then a letter from his agent arrives , demanding that these corners be heavily compensated or even bought by the water authority , as payment for the concessions made . |
| 15 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 16 | Pameton is little publicised because it is of value only to that small number of people who may misuse medicines . |
| 17 | They found a café down a side-street , and were about to find somewhere to sit when she heard a voice call out to Piers . |
| 18 | ‘ When I saw a stage-play instead of a sermon on the Lord 's days … and heard little preaching but what was … against the Puritans , I was glad to be gone . ’ |
| 19 | This , however , is hardly the case , for it rather involves if anything a more active critique of the Eurocentric premises of Western knowledge . |
| 20 | Walking is cheaper , ’ she said , a little irritated that he had n't got the message . |
| 21 | Another six inch long wound on his stomach is not as deep , but the area is badly swollen and he has another inch deep wound on his front leg where the knife was stuck in . ’ |
| 22 | His ankle is badly swollen and he is struggling for the weekend . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I want to be measured for some more boots , ’ Edward said , ‘ but you look a little shaken so I 'm sure it can wait until another day . ’ |
| 24 | I called in Doctor Andrews last night — I felt a little shaken and I do n't like that hotel fellow — and he supplied me with the information , ’ was the reply . |
| 25 | Widely commended for its environmental stance in Europe , the same standards have not been applied in the company 's operations in Ecuador , where roads were driven into virgin forests , rivers were so badly polluted that they caught fire , fish were dynamited and local people forced off their lands . |
| 26 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 27 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
| 28 | While Mills and Boon themselves rigorously deny that they produce ‘ formula fiction ’ , they remain unique as a publishing house . |
| 29 | But one rather doubts if they will be . |
| 30 | Just as any oppressed man is most enslaved when he becomes shameful in his own eyes , so the Christian is deepest in captivity when not only in his believing but in his doubting too he dances to the tune of his culture 's parody of his faith . |