Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 2 | Discarded vinegar or wine casks also make excellent small-pool containers , when sawn in half and waterproofed inside with bitumen paint . |
| 3 | The sword was evidently the token of gift in a ceremony perhaps similar to that in which King Edgar granted privileges to Glastonbury by placing on the altar an ivory horn , which he ordered to be cut in half and preserved so that it could be offered as testimony in future . |
| 4 | Thus investment ( diagram ( b ) ) and income ( diagram ( c ) ) will not rise as much as illustrated either . |
| 5 | Finally the point is reached where our minds are not renewed so much as patched up . |
| 6 | Isambard had not so much as looked round . |
| 7 | Ah , was n't as much as spilt yesterday , but it gets a bit |
| 8 | PRESIDENT George Bush as much as admitted yesterday that he is in a political bind over the abortion issue . |
| 9 | In fact , at most matches , they do very little at all except set up a few chants when things are a bit quiet . |
| 10 | Lined up against the working mums were women who 'd given up work to look after their children , women who 'd had working mothers themselves and felt they had missed out , and women who had tried to do it all and given up the struggle . |
| 11 | The possibility of an audience much wider than Whitbread is there : the flavour created by ordinary people achieving the extraordinary is bound to appeal to many if marketed successfully . |
| 12 | The only girl , Roberta , or Berta , as the family called her , was the same age as her cousin Sandy and although ‘ chesty ’ as they said , she was certainly spirited enough , and more than kept up with all the boys . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend will concede that we have more than lived up to our promise that our Army of the future , as the Select Committee report said , will be outstandingly well equipped . |
| 14 | THE jump in retail sales last month of 1.6 per cent was roughly twice what the City had expected and more than made good the disappointing fall of 1 per cent in December . |
| 15 | House-building rebounded from a loss in 1991 to a £2.6 million profit in 1992 , thanks to a 6 per cent increase in sales to 1,289 units and improved margins , which more than made good an average 8 per cent drop in selling prices to £81,000 . |
| 16 | This more than made up for the Tramway Department 's loss of revenue resulting from the suspension of the service ! |
| 17 | The care and attention he received was first class throughout his stay and although he missed out on a family Christmas at home , the staff more than made up for it and he was showered with extra presents which helped to speed his recovery . |
| 18 | There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries . |
| 19 | Trading down helped the firm grab business from smaller operators and more than made up for falling sales of its classier Gainsborough furniture in the six months to end September . |
| 20 | The cost is more than made up for by the fact that virtually no man-hours are lost through strike action . |
| 21 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 22 | Non-ruminants can not extract much energy from the hard parts of the plant ; however , this is more than made up for by the fact that food passes much more quickly through their guts . |
| 23 | To her disappointment , she had not been able to find a Château La Tour Monchauzet vintage on the wine-list , but the half-bottle of Côtes de Bergerac that she chose instead more than made up for it . |
| 24 | That 'll mean less business for the animal crematorium — but its owners say that 'll be more than made up for by the increasing number of people who are choosing to have their familly pets cremated . |
| 25 | Patricia and Sue were more than fed up with being constantly left out in the cold , usually on the pavement outside women 's events because of lack of physical access . |
| 26 | He says the impetus of the 1989/90 funding boost will be ‘ more than cancelled out ’ by next year 's cuts . |
| 27 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 28 | These results confirm those of the time series test in which high and low beta portfolios earned less than expected and more than expected respectively . |
| 29 | It means that changes in productivity have more than wiped out any potential for increased employment through growth in production . |
| 30 | Without needing to do more than put down sporadic resistance from the more independent clans , the 30,000 Syrian troops guarding the Bekaa for the heroin cartel were allowed to augment their pay by up to $1 billion a year in protection money . |