Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid this will always happen . |
| 2 | The 1984 British Open may well go down as the Open that was lost by two players as much as it was won by Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 3 | We anticipate that something over an extra 50,000 will now do so . |
| 4 | In addition , the very high demand in the early seventies may well have pushed up investment goods prices especially fast . |
| 5 | To be critical , the JD 's Japanese pickups are certainly less powerful than the Signature 's and , overall , they err on the empty-sounding side — a hint of extra mid-range would n't go amiss . |
| 6 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 7 | Whatever the views of the predominantly middle-aged critics had been — and they were mostly favourable — audiences in their teens and early twenties would still have found the film out and responded to it . |
| 8 | While extra millions will immediately start flooding into the Big Four's coffers , spokesmen would only say that savings rates ‘ will be reviewed over the next few days . ’ |
| 9 | Others in their early 20s will obviously feature in the selectors ' deliberations for the full tour of Australia , starting in November , that marks the beginning of a new era for West Indies more appropriately than the proliferation of one-day tournaments to which Richie Richardson 's reshaped team has been almost exclusively confined . |
| 10 | To date approximately 100 GPs only have their practices computerised but within five years many of the remaining 7,900 will undoubtedly follow suit . |
| 11 | Temporary solutions which leave important issues unresolved and the child 's future uncertain may well prejudice his welfare . |
| 12 | A certain amount of delicate touching will also take place to lull the female before mating begins . |
| 13 | The Fund also wished to cut the public wage bill ( increase unemployment ) ; lift import controls ( allowing an influx of consumer goods , thereby undermining local production ) ; privatize national industries at outrageously discounted prices ; raise interest rates ( also hitting the competitiveness of local producers ) ; and remove exchange controls ( ‘ so that a privileged few could legitimately drain the country of the few remaining dregs of foreign reserves ’ ) . |
| 14 | After M'sieur Fabien died , my aunt arranged for it to be stored , because a house that is left empty can sometimes attract thieves , you understand . |
| 15 | Should she prove to be young and pretty this might even turn out to be a pleasure . |
| 16 | Eliminating tax breaks on corporate entertaining would probably do more to break the power of keiretsu than beefing up Japan 's feeble antitrust laws or passing intricate rules on cross share-holdings . |
| 17 | Since the BFS is non-degenerate this can only mean that it is not efficient . |
| 18 | All City insurance analysts believe that in any event Australian Mutual will not get the Pearl for the 605p per share bid that it has made . |
| 19 | Y y yes I mean to clear this whole matter up Chairman w wo would it be fair if , if I moved perhaps tha that erm erm little one should become little two and little two should probably become little one and |
| 20 | The reserved British could quickly interpret it as brashness . |
| 21 | We 're trying to get in touch with all the homes we have n't already seen to make sure this ca n't happen again . |
| 22 | Her fellow class members made sure this would n't happen again , by giving her , on qualifying , a congratulatory card decorated with a map of that elusive isle . |
| 23 | It wanted to be sure this would not happen . |
| 24 | Thamesdown Borough Council is confident this wo n't jeopardise the rest of the plan . |
| 25 | French West Africa in the late 1940s might not seem the most urgent subject for your attention . |
| 26 | The contrast with the Labour government 's housing policy in the late 1940s could not have been more striking . |
| 27 | This apparently concrete and absolute approach involved , once the poverty measure was defined , the distinction between those in primary poverty and those in secondary poverty.2 The primary poor could not attain the standard whatever they did , while the secondary poor could if they reallocated their income to a different consumption pattern , i.e. if they eliminated some wasteful expenditures . |
| 28 | However , the growth of optical-fibre , ISDN services in the mid to late 1990s will radically change the way in which information is made available in the home . |
| 29 | When used with always and never , the present continuous can also express habitual action : He 's always forgetting to water the house plants . |
| 30 | No one who went to foreign language movies in the late Sixties will easily forget the extraordinary films that seemed to pour out of the state-owned studios of Czechoslavakia . |