Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This suggests that this short-term store is auditorily rather than visually based even when the task is visual-motor . |
| 2 | However , it is obviously important that the targets are relevant ( e.g. based upon international comparisons ) , that reasonable detail on the outcomes is available , and most importantly that clearly defined action is taken to improve poor performance . |
| 3 | Hot-wire anemometers have been most widely and successfully used in gas flows . |
| 4 | Newbery argued that a more useful approach was for each country to be looked at separately and the level of damage quantified to see how it could be most effectively and economically put right . |
| 5 | And here we find that the term is widely rather than narrowly defined to include an offence which carries a sentence of three years or more on first conviction ; or involves the use of violence ; or results in substantial financial gain ; or involves conduct by a large number of people in pursuit of a common purpose . |
| 6 | This type of history was , of course , theologically rather than politically orientated . |
| 7 | In Volume Three of Capital ( Marx , 1972 ) , in the tantalising unfinished fragment on ‘ Classes ’ , Marx notes that even in England , where ‘ modern society is indisputably most highly and classically developed in economic structure … the stratification of classes does not appear in its pure form . |
| 8 | The fade has always been the safer shot as Ben Hogan — another who , for long , was haunted by a hook — so thrillingly and chillingly exemplified . |
| 9 | Mrs Brocklebank had created a little nest for herself in the basement where she put her clothes and her big black handbag , from which she was only rarely and reluctantly parted , and where she tucked away any odds and ends it was better Brock at home did not see . |
| 10 | It was delightful — not only to hear two of them boast so loudly about the lotus-eating weekend but to see what they said so effectively and hilariously challenged by a person from a different social group . |
| 11 | It was for these qualities that he was so widely and profoundly respected and liked by the many many people whose love and sympathy will I am sure prove to you now an enormous uplift and support . |
| 12 | It 's right back to the Stamp Acts which were so bitterly and rightly resisted in the early part of the 19th century . ’ |
| 13 | Some critics argue that elite theorists were especially prominent in those West European countries , such as Italy and Germany , where liberal democracy was only weakly and recently established ( Lukács , 1948 ) . |
| 14 | The British Columbians , despite dogged persistence , could not cope with a pack in which eight men worked as one and where possession once obtained was so powerfully and cunningly retained . |
| 15 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 16 | It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years . |
| 17 | ‘ They have a father , ma'am , ’ Wilson said , gently enough but nevertheless detached from Mrs Browning 's distress , ‘ and each other and will not come to want . |
| 18 | Unfortunately those clergy who had so eagerly and diligently defended and justified the war were likely to be engulfed and damaged by the pessimism and disillusion which its failure provoked : pacifism was commonly embraced by the lollards . |
| 19 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 20 | He was being very much the doctor , Sally-Anne noted , even through her distress , which was growing less by the minute as she regained the self-control which she had so suddenly and disastrously lost . |
| 21 | And all of them were astonished that the most glamorous member of the Royal Family could be so suddenly and publicly brought down to earth . |
| 22 | Certainly the visitor whose hand Creggan had so swiftly and accurately caught in his talons let out a cry of alarm and pain , trying to pull his hand away . |
| 23 | To shed surplus weight with the F-Plan , allow yourself a maximum of 1,500 calories a day and a minimum of 1,000 calories ( or less only if medically supervised ) a day . |
| 24 | She stared at the golden eagle , so arrogantly and eternally poised , and wondered why she had ever thought birds on furniture were a bit off : why had she never bothered to look , why had she never asked herself what her eyes had told her ? |
| 25 | He was in shirt sleeves , shaking all over and greatly upset . |
| 26 | The British government 's rules on the use of sewage sludge as fertiliser for grazing land have been called into question by the discovery that bacteria survive in soil much longer than previously thought . |
| 27 | I had only once or twice done jobs for high SenFed aristocrats or , for royalty . |
| 28 | Andrewes loved ceremonial and used incense in his private chapel , which , said Isaacson , was ‘ so decently and reverently adorned that some were so taken with it , that they desired to end their days in the Bishop of Ely 's chapel ’ . |
| 29 | He 's married to someone so socially and culturally removed from him she might as well be a foreigner . ’ |
| 30 | Normal speech is so rapidly and informally articulated that there are seldom pauses between the words ( this may be verified from the waveform of the speech signal ) . |