Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leland Allen , a quantum chemist at Princeton University , believes that Pople has brought elements of standardisation , reliability , a large body of reference calculations , ready availability , and reproducibility ; and most importantly has opened up a second pathway — in addition to experimentation — to chemical truth . |
| 2 | It is probably the most widely used NSAID worldwide . |
| 3 | It is the most widely used measured to PTSD in adults . |
| 4 | I had a romantic , not an objective , conception of history ; Alexander the Great was foremost among my heroes , Montrose was the leader I would most gladly have followed , John Knox was my particular aversion . |
| 5 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |
| 6 | The agent may be better off claiming times are bad when they are not , if wages are thereby greatly reduced compared to employment and output , so raising the firm 's net earnings and the agent 's earnings . |
| 7 | Kolko ( 1987 ) notes that : ‘ Many programs do not incorporate standardized instruments to assess those variables purported to change following treatment , and only rarely include needed control or comparison groups and statistical analyses to evaluate program impact ’ ( p.313 ) . |
| 8 | But it is a self which readers of the book can only rarely have found it hard to experience . |
| 9 | Now , the last thing I want to say , because I know we , our guest is here , and so presumably has collected his thoughts and is able to leap into the breach , the last thing I want to say on this is , writing articles , writing pieces , is a game , another area where practice makes perfect . |
| 10 | As a septuagenarian , he made the trip to Ireland on the back of his son Eon 's motor-bike to find the Killarney Fern — long since believed gone from its single recorded site on Moel Hebog in Snowdonia . |
| 11 | The other was that as a wizard — even a dead wizard of the fifteenth grade , his optic nerves had long since become attuned to seeing into levels and dimensions far removed from common reality , and were therefore somewhat inefficient at observing the merely mundane . |
| 12 | She had long since grown used to the sight of her only daughter charging recklessly into battle — usually with her hand firmly clasped on the wrong end of the stick . |
| 13 | For some unexplained reason you were still lurking about at a time when , normally , you would long since have gone home . ’ |
| 14 | Were it not fur her , I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair . |
| 15 | Any normal person would long since have collapsed . |
| 16 | Likewise , if the explosion occurred early enough in the Solar System 's history , the shell of gases could long since have dissipated . |
| 17 | This time I 've got no crazy , pointless altruism restraining me , and you must long since have discarded whatever distorted idealism made you believe you had to be faithful to Jones in fact and thought , since you claim to have had at least one other relationship between your spells with him . |
| 18 | This should not unduly worry us : by that time , unless we have colonized beyond the Solar System , mankind will long since have died out , extinguished along with our sun ! |
| 19 | Cottages dotted the waterside through the village ; and anything which had gone into the water some hours ago must , in any case , either have been brought ashore there already or long since have passed through , before the general alarm went out . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd much rather get involved that way than just stand about watching . |
| 21 | The stations of the South African Boer Republics , themselves huge concessions to the modern world which the Boers would originally much rather have done without , took on some of the dour , flinty character of Dutch Reformed Calvinism . |
| 22 | " I 'd much rather have written instructions than a telephone call . " |
| 23 | She would much rather have paid . |
| 24 | He 'd much rather have advised a disciple — the earnest girl Fruitbat , perhaps , or her relentlessly smiling lover , Chogyam-Jones , who dressed in what looked like a Chinese carpet ; their flattery was becoming necessary . |
| 25 | Clearly , I am focusing on the idea that it is the residues of bad experiences that lurk as bad objects in our psyche that cause us so much trouble because they have to be avoided at all costs and so rarely get modified by experience . |
| 26 | The manual job thus reduces to filling the carousel with panels or sub-assemblies every 20 minutes or so , and is of course only loosely machine paced . |
| 27 | She is ranked sufficiently highly to have gone straight into the main draw , but made it clear that the Games were inconvenient for her schedule this years , as she had a lot of points to defend in tournaments . |
| 28 | Western science — like our medicine — is notoriously dismissive of anything that smacks of the spiritual life that our civilisation seems so carelessly to have thrown away.Yet if we are to survive for another thousand years , we desperately need to rediscover this aspect of being human ; not only as a reaction to the yuppie ‘ me first ’ generation of the Eighties but as the only means of re-establishing the synergy between man and planet.This requires a radical shift in our attitudes . |
| 29 | They are the ones who have been long enough in the profession to have lost some of their naivety and to have mastered the art of teaching , whilst they have not been teachers long enough to have become demoralized and cynical . |
| 30 | Our local starling population is a race apart in that they are non-migratory and have been isolated in the islands for long enough to have developed their own characteristics . |