Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the strength of the structure set of goals varies with circumstances during our lifetime , the period when it influences our motivation arousal patterns most powerfully is in childhood . |
| 2 | These ancestors have long since been at rest , but during their time around Pelynt there was between them bitter jealousy , treachery and hatred , leading even to murder . |
| 3 | ‘ At first he agreed that he 'd much rather be at home with me . |
| 4 | If I were you I 'd much rather be with Michelle and Mutty Michelle 's very clever . |
| 5 | The boy who had carried our bags up to our room so eagerly was of course a boatman . |
| 6 | She looked up quickly , doing nothing to disguise her surprise at the fact that he would only apparently be at OBEX on a part-time basis . |
| 7 | If calomel is given in cholera it should obviously not be in pills , as Dr Dunstaple suggests , but as a powder for the sake of better diffusion . " |
| 8 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 9 | For much more was at stake than an individual 's choice of where she wanted to spend her life . |
| 10 | If all is relative , then protest against racism , sexism and so forth is at root an arbitrary subjective one — why should n't somebody be racist if all is a matter of mere opinion or expediency ? |
| 11 | The observations so far are with programs where the designer had not concentrated on this aspect at all , but it seems very hopeful that valuable work in this area can be developed . |
| 12 | Much of the focus has so far been on integration , instigated predominantly by non-Disabled people , as a mean for all sections of the community to be involved on an equal basis , in a way which does not differentiate between the intention of this approach is genuine , in practice it often transmutes into another form of exclusion and discrimination . |
| 13 | The existence of this ring had been inferred after the fly-by of Pioneer 11 in 1974 , which was the second of four spacecraft that have so far been to Jupiter . |
| 14 | Although the only agreement covering hardware so far is with Pyramid , the software runs on a variety of Unix servers , so customers will be able to choose their hardware vendor . |
| 15 | Probably the most useful study so far is by Bainbridge & Genoves ( 1956 ) . |
| 16 | You , my lady , will be here with us but for a short time , I understand — so pray be at ease , and treat this as your own abode . ’ |
| 17 | But they remained essential to him , perhaps because his life had so often been at stake . |
| 18 | Women have so often been in situations of powerlessness and dependence that any system of belief or programme of action that could count as ‘ feminist ’ must in some way see this as a central concern . |
| 19 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 20 | So if ten o'clock here is at night , it 's ten o'clock in New Zealand excuse me ! |
| 21 | My big problem was that all my files , containing the text of my books , articles , notes and so on were on discs of the wrong size to run of any other computer — without expensive conversion . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've obviously NEVER been in love or you d never think of it so vulgarly ! |
| 23 | The narrator may not wholly be in jest when he refers to sexual intercourse with a certain girl , 17 or thereabouts , as ‘ the ultimate indecorum ’ , and rereaders of the novel are likely to be mindful of the survival here of an old England lived in by people like the middle-aged T. S. Eliot , exponents of a disgusted chastity . |
| 24 | Fourth , if , having acted according to these principles , he were subsequently challenged regarding the lawfulness of his conduct , the doctor would have the benefit of the defence of necessity if he had intervened , but if he had not intervened , he would not thereby be in breach of his duty to his patient . |
| 25 | Although Law , Charlton , Best etc. were on show , I was so scared of the mob around me I kept my head down most of the time , although I seem to remember we drew 2–2 . |
| 26 | The debate should not endlessly be about tactics , it becomes self-defeating to go on and on and on wrangling about tactics when it is the motivation behind those tactics that holds the key . |
| 27 | This was bound to entail a new evaluation , which ( we may note ) might not necessarily be to Homer 's advantage , for all the undoubted " harmony " and " beauty " of the early epic . |
| 28 | ‘ Otherwise he is keeping in touch and working on his Ministerial papers — although he may not necessarily be in town . ’ |
| 29 | Because the primary nurse can not personally be on duty to give care throughout that time , arrangements must be made for care to continue during her absence . |
| 30 | I would need to revise my knowledge of patient/client confidentiality so that I may not inadvertently be in breach of proper professional conduct . |