Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm |
| 2 | Thus state day nurseries became confined very largely to the children of poor and needy parents , often single parents . |
| 3 | The charities , the women — beautiful women , some of them , but so shallow , Ellie , so very shallow , and I think my son became disillusioned very early in life . |
| 4 | Money market activity has developed very rapidly in London in the last thirty years , partly due to the growth of the financial sector in general , but also because of the increasing demand for sophisticated financial services by clients both in the UK and abroad . |
| 5 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 6 | phenomena which have only arisen in the period of advanced capitalism in which the state has intervened directly both in the organization of production and in consumption . |
| 7 | He concluded that commentary has conformed very closely to the Committee 's preference for a style that is appropriate and complementary to Commons proceedings . |
| 8 | It also has a multi-million pound contract to supply British Coal with up to 90,000 tonnes of domestic coal , but production problems have meant the consortium has fallen well behind with those orders . |
| 9 | The burden of this increasing sense of isolation has fallen particularly heavily upon those members of the rural population who lack the means of personal mobility to maintain a more dispersed network of social contacts . |
| 10 | In other words , unemployment has fallen most sharply in those areas where it was least severe . |
| 11 | In this connection , it should be noted that the proportion of elderly people in paid work has fallen very sharply since 1971 . |
| 12 | French retail sales fell by 3.6% in the year to November , while business confidence has fallen more sharply in the past two quarters than at any time in the 1980s . |
| 13 | This , conveniently , is at a time when sterling has fallen far enough against the Deutschemark to make it potentially competitive within ERM . |
| 14 | Drilling activity has fallen almost four-fold from its peak in 1981 . |
| 15 | It has fallen too often into a dull middle ground . |
| 16 | In these circumstances the Soviet Union has pressed more recently for a more limited regime for the Gulf involving restrictions on the naval presence of the Great Powers in the region . |
| 17 | In Britain denominational planning has depended too exclusively on the ‘ geographical map ’ . |
| 18 | Our body clock has adjusted readily enough to the delay in our life-style at the weekend ( remember that the free-running period is more than 24 hours ) , but is less easily advanced , as is required , on Sunday night and Monday morning ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 19 | In the past it has been said AMV 's TV has never matched its press work ; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view ; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands . |
| 20 | The balance has tipped too far in the other direction : instead of ignoring her sexuality , Christabel is now dominated by it , and so the creative process by which she should have been psychologically fulfilled has not worked . |
| 21 | ‘ He has responded very well to chemotherapy so the question of radiotherapy has not risen again . |
| 22 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 23 | What about the situation in which , on the one hand , many households have no contact with wage labour and are wholly dependent for reproduction on state benefits and , on the other , wage labour has penetrated far further into other households because of the importance of female employment ? |
| 24 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 25 | This brief discussion of land tenure , occupancy and inheritance systems has illustrated the general argument that how people have collectively organized their survival and reproduction has varied very substantially over space and time . |
| 26 | Yet if we assume , as we are perfectly entitled to do for the sake of argument , that life has originated only once in the universe , it follows that we are allowed to postulate a very large amount of luck in a theory , because there are so many planets in the universe where life could have originated . |
| 27 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 28 | Why should we assume the so-called contented majority has come even close to fulfilling its aspirations ? |
| 29 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 30 | Our best profit growth has come yet again in Retail , where Peter and his team have built the portfolio up in true recession-beating style and generated good profit growth whilst servicing a thoroughly depressed High Street . |