Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand if the subject 's contrast is very high the dilution of Rodinal can be increased to 1:75 or more to fully develop the negative without over-developing the highlight areas . |
| 2 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 3 | Its sense may be seen as an abstract representation of permission ( " give your assent to a party " ) or even of not preventing ( " do n't be indifferent to " ) . |
| 4 | It is possible to dissect open the animal 's body so as to expose the abdominal ganglion and its cells , or even to completely isolate the ganglion and the nerves connecting it to pieces of attached skin and gill . |
| 5 | Customers find its relaxing serenity ideal for weekend meetings or simply to just get away . |
| 6 | Thus it may be committed by wrongfully taking possession of goods , by wrongfully disposing of them , by wrongfully destroying them or simply by wrongfully refusing to give them up when demanded , for in all these cases can be traced conduct by the defendant which amounts to a denial of the plaintiff 's rights or the assertion of inconsistent rights . |
| 7 | Many of the houses were eighteenth century or earlier with steeply sloping red-tiled roofs and half-timbered gables painted white or pale green . |
| 8 | It does n't take me that long to actually get ready — the planning part is the important bit , and the fun bit . |
| 9 | Policy-makers are looking closer than ever at how to tax multinationals more consistently . |
| 10 | More farmers than ever before now own their farms . |
| 11 | The uncertainty that up to now has surrounded Norsk Data 's business is by this clarified , ’ the company declared . |
| 12 | The new Transaction System from Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,166 ) represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 13 | The system represents a major departure for the Newbury , Berkshire company that up to now has been famed for its Cobol products and development tools rather than for production system software — but the market for Unix transaction processing systems is still wide open because scarcely any have been sold as yet . |
| 14 | Each partition is a functioning DCP providing in one cabinet the resiliency that up to now required paired individual DCP systems . |
| 15 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 16 | This has nothing to do with how policemen look nor even of never having heard of a bunch called James , who are apparently big stars , have their name emblazoned all over a chic t-shirt and of whom one had never heard till yesterday . |
| 17 | There was more difficulty over the high tax charge and ACT relief and the interim dividend stays at 3.25p covered less than twice by almost halved earnings .. |
| 18 | There was more difficulty over the high tax charge and ACT relief and the interim dividend stays at 3.25p covered less than twice by almost halved earnings .. |
| 19 | The House of Lords held that the surveyor was discharging the duties of both expert and quasi-arbitrator , and was not in the position of an independent arbitrator who had no other duty which involved acting in the interests of one of the parties , and that accordingly in so acting he was not guilty of collusion or bad faith . |
| 20 | Critics complained that instead of just handing him the challenge , Spain 's arts ministry ought to have held an international competition for the best scheme . |
| 21 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 22 | However , in attempting to ascertain the applicability of the model to other countries , in order to strengthen confidence in the results , it is recognised that instead of simply applying it to them mechanically , some account needs to be taken of prevailing differences in their industrial relations systems . |
| 23 | The striking point , however , is that instead of merely denying the charge , he had set out to vindicate himself by finding a scientific reason why the world could not be eternal . |
| 24 | By a notice of appeal dated 18 February 1991 the second defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that the judge erred ( 1 ) in concluding that the first defendant was not acting as the plaintiffs ' agent when he procured the signature of the second defendant to the legal charge dated 3 July 1987 ; and ( 2 ) in not finding that the execution of the charge was procured by the undue influence and material misrepresentation of the first defendant and thereby in not setting aside the charge . |
| 25 | Davidson was the first Anglo-Scot to play international rugby ; the first of the Royal Indian Engineering College forward 's two caps was against England in 1873 , still in the days of 20-a-side , and rarely since then have the exiles not been represented in Scotland 's team . |
| 26 | She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father , something that could not be expressed by words , and so without quite knowing how it happened she suddenly turned her head and with a smile tossed out her arm in the air , easily , flowing , as if to see each other many more times . |
| 27 | On the way back over the lines west we saw a lot of traffic with trains going to Oxford , coal to Didcot power station , 125 's to the West Country and three class 37 's up and down with nowhere to go . |
| 28 | It is always sound to add any such volumes to personal collections , for however well or badly done , they will always be a source of inspiration — if only on how to approach certain topics . |
| 29 | America should spend more on improving the technology of its weapons , and less on actually making them |
| 30 | Why did he sit there in that most sociable of settings , solitary and apparently with neither need nor wish for company ? |