Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In seeking to influence the size and timing of interest changes we can operate with a higher profile — through publicised 2.30 p.m. lending to the market , for example , which is the equivalent to the earlier MLR announcement ; or we can operate more discreetly through varying the scale of assistance in relation to the market 's needs or the terms on which we lend privately to the discount houses . |
| 2 | There is one walk , and one only , on the northern mountain façade of Torridon , available to walkers of average ability and , by a happy topographical coincidence , it leads to the natural feature most worth seeing . |
| 3 | No matter how familiar with literary works you become , you can not focus equally on all parts of a text ( particularly a long text , such as a novel ) : so you need to decide which parts of it are most worth reading closely and writing about . |
| 4 | Now while it may be difficult to gainsay the claim that these are the things on which it would be most worth spending time if there was ever no further need to struggle for the basics of human survival and comfort , life seems to be trivialised if culture and personal relations are held up as the be all and end all of what really matters . |
| 5 | But Moore assumes we can ascribe inherent value to smaller units of reality and indeed this may be a necessary presupposition for the kind of calculations on the basis of which he thinks we should decide what is most worth doing . |
| 6 | Since the passing of the Theft Act 1968 the accused could equally well have been prosecuted successfully for obtaining property by deception contrary to section 15 of the Act . |
| 7 | Diana 's father , who already had a reputation locally for organizing splendid fireworks ' displays on Guy Fawkes Night , laid on a wonderful party for her seventh birthday . |
| 8 | The screen is divided vertically into time periods ranging from minutes — for arranging a meeting — to years , presumably for scheduling your life . |
| 9 | Pallister and Bruce getting the better marks ( presumably for handling and tackling from behind respectively ) . |
| 10 | The family claims to pay the production team 300 yuan a year , presumably for maintaining farm infrastructure , and another 250 yuan to the commune , which builds things like roads and schools . |
| 11 | Against another wall there was a shelf , presumably for preparing food , and there was a single cupboard above the shelf . |
| 12 | Presumably for keeping Speed quiet , whilst managing to get forward a couple of times with Rijkaard-like timing . |
| 13 | Worse still , Midgley then booked Hodge , presumably for questioning the leniency of the decision . |
| 14 | ‘ Walked to Oakeley , thence about inspecting Railway ’ . |
| 15 | But they also want to feel that they can ask for support or advice if they need it without feeling that they are being judged badly for doing so . |
| 16 | So issuers who want to get the most for selling their shares tend to prefer book-building , even though fees are higher . |
| 17 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 18 | Chapman came to criticize the league system most for making success the overriding consideration . |
| 19 | Bob bent down , too , and moved discreetly about picking up the more obviously feminine articles of clothing around the floor . |
| 20 | Unless the new pitch is going to be pretty hard wearing , prospects for staging Euro 96 , and perhaps more importantly for playing good football over the next couple of seasons , do not look good ! ! |
| 21 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 22 | Both China and India were signatories , but only on condition that they received substantial assistance from the West ( both financial and technological ) to ensure that they were not penalized economically for having to use the more expensive alternatives to CFCs . |
| 23 | By and large , information stored in files or computers is used mostly for packaging proposals and rarely for learning or initiating and evaluating alternative courses of action . |
| 24 | A popular modern interpretation of liberal ideas argues that private autonomy should be lost not through a special exercise of choice but rather through causing harm , or the risk of causing harm , to others . |
| 25 | That 's what I hate most about keeping my head down . |
| 26 | Stress can be managed effectively through learning to control and change the emotional response we have to the situations we come across in our jobs and personal lives . |
| 27 | The student will learn more effectively through identifying the particular needs and problems of each patient . |
| 28 | The hotel has a strict liability for the property the guest may bring into the hotel ( see Chapter 8 ) and is obliged to accept valuables such as money , jewellery , furs , etc. for safe-keeping . |
| 29 | But the Raskolnikov of the notebooks who joked grimly about getting used to being married and having children will do that average and earthy thing , though in a different spirit ; and in another story , as the Epilogue tells us . |
| 30 | The lawmakers prattle on about wanting greater continuity . |