Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had undressed many men , she had read somewhere that nakedness was safest , because with the mystery gone humans were just humans , not that exciting , nothing special , and she believed it , for some times and for some human beings . |
| 2 | Somewhere that world carries on in a crowded theatre foyer , a cosmopolitan crowd , the women glittering with diamonds , unchanged by war , by revolution , by suffering . |
| 3 | Games of 10 minutes each way will be played between 10am-noon and 1.30pm-3.30pm each day with the competitions , which are sponsored by Puma , switching to the back field on Sunday . |
| 4 | We both slept badly that night : on two occasions I woke when Benjamin cried out in his sleep . |
| 5 | Shannon slept badly that night , haunted by dreams of great swirling snowflakes and a hawk-faced man who loomed out of the deadly white mass with fury in his eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 7 | If only his head did not ache so badly that thought seemed driven out by the throbbing . |
| 8 | which is all our responsibility , presumably that delay is because we are n't providing sufficient judges or sufficient services to er , er , to try them in a much shorter term . |
| 9 | The policy behind section 6 of the Sexual Offences Act is presumably that Parliament considered that a girl under 16 is generally unlikely to be sufficiently mature to realise the full implications of sexual intercourse ; so that her protection demands that a belief by a man under the age of 24 that she herself was over the age of 16 should not be only an honest but also a reasonable belief . ’ |
| 10 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 11 | Sequential organisation has the major advantage that the records are stored in a logical order , presumably that sequence to which the records are normally required for printing and for soft copy reports . |
| 12 | Right , any time you read a story , whether it be religious or science fiction , or whatever , in which somebody is taken out of one body and put into another body erm and the story goes , and then was turned into a pig , or whatever , erm , presumably that author has it in mind that you can still identify , that same guy , first in one body and then in the body of a pig . |
| 13 | But presumably that balance is n't something that 's encouraged either by the discipline of the job , or by a culture that assumes that men do n't have to take on responsibility for those things because women do . |
| 14 | On the other hand , it is just because the fibre tubes can be crushed locally that wood can be nailed and screwed without splitting , provided we do not abuse the wood too much . |
| 15 | It was thought locally that attendance might be down because of a Gaelic football regional cup tie taking place at the same time , but many people managed to do both . |
| 16 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 17 | I did n't see it properly that time ? you know . |
| 18 | The daily routines of most working class wives left conspicuously little time for leisure . |
| 19 | One can not , of course , say from this description how rigorously each SBU was evaluated , or how well devised the strategies to move SBUs around the matrix were . |
| 20 | Some might joke unkindly that road deaths in the region are not limited to traffic accidents . |
| 21 | But although we may be confident that a gradient exists , and influences subsequent development , we usually have no idea what it is a gradient of , and rather little idea of how genes are actually switched on and off . |
| 22 | Support from grandparent' to grandchild is rather more straightforward , although again rather little evidence exists . |
| 23 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 24 | spoken language typically contains rather little subordination |
| 25 | Theories that suppose latent inhibition to be a function of what the stimulus itself predicts have been compelled to introduce special explanations to deal with the fact of context — specificity — and , as we shall see , they have done so with rather little success . |
| 26 | In our discussion so far we have concentrated particularly on the physical context in which single utterances are embedded and we have paid rather little attention to the previous discourse co-ordinate . |
| 27 | The first is that there is rather little reason to associate the coercive pressure of a dominant or majority current of opinion or belief with democracy . |
| 28 | Among transition metal hydrides the mass of the metal atom has rather little effect ; frequencies are in the range 2200–1700 cm -1 , the precise value depending on the metal and the other ligands involved . |
| 29 | For the Sunday League Durham were 40–1 with Victor Chandler , ¼ the odds first three , and 40–1 with The Tote for the NatWest Trophy , and so the suggestion is a little each way for both possibilities . |
| 30 | After that I might do some washing — I 'd rather do a little each day than a large amount at once . |