Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand it has to be understood that , by the time that Washoe , Koko , and the rest of the humanized-ape fraternity have been endowed with elements of human culture in this drastic fashion , they have long since ceased to be ordinary apes .
2 The medical profession have long since ceased to be shocked or surprised at the wide variety of objects which continue to be extracted from the vagina .
3 The fact that King Arthur had been Romano-British and engaged in a struggle against Saxon invaders made the whole thing even more nonsensical , but Schellenberg had long since ceased to be amused by the excesses of the Third Reich .
4 I would so much like to be wise ,
5 When the truth of the relationship together is faced , the prospect of living alone suddenly ceases to be unbearable .
6 Exhibiting societies , once established , bred rivals ; the most remarkable rivalry in the nineteenth century was in Paris , where the choice of pictures for the Salon in 1866 was so generally considered to be unfair that the rejected pictures were shown in a Salon of their own .
7 These contradictions will be marked in the work produced under these conditions in ways that we are only just beginning to be able to imagine .
8 It had only just come to be important before the ‘ unnatural ’ town of the industrial revolution conjured up some of the most dramatic and ‘ romanticized ’ of contrasts .
9 Ringa Hustle … was one of the last dogs to go into the traps at wimbledon on Saturday … he was drawn in three alongside his kennel mate Lassa Java … the derby is the race of the year for greyhounds … 40,000 to the winner and there was only ever going to be one winner …
10 So often compelled to be distant , at close quarters she is frank , informal , funny , direct and possessed of an uncanny ability to charm the least star-struck .
11 When the news was broken to Vaclav Havel in the middle of Jon Snow 's television interview he stopped the cameras , appalled , much too moved to be able to make an appropriate instant response .
12 ( 2 ) A partner who retires from a firm does not thereby cease to be liable for partnership debts or obligations incurred before his retirement .
13 This coupling might not displace your favoured recording of either concerto , but it is worth attention for Accardo 's emphatic proof that you do not necessarily have to be English to interpret English music .
14 Medicines made from natural products , he points out , are not necessarily going to be cheaper than drugs made synthetically .
15 ‘ It 's not necessarily going to be present in our relationship for the rest of our lives .
16 And diagnosis is very , very important that , if you have a medical , clinical state of depression try and pull yourself out of it , by your , your own efforts and doing alternative things is not necessarily going to be effective .
17 But er can you see you 've got to make up your mind what it is , it 's not necessarily going to be easy .
18 The fact that work performed-by one group is not necessarily found to be repeatable by another is nothing new .
19 Indeed they do not only appear to be immoral , but dishonest as well .
20 Their activities were thus not only believed to be tangible proof of the truths of Christianity , but were also an essential link between men and a somewhat remote but terrifying god .
21 Note that for synchronous rotation the orbital and axial periods not only have to be equal but also both prograde or both retrograde .
22 They not only have to be able to get there but they have to be able to get their words and pictures out .
23 Her clothes not only have to be smart but very carefully chosen because anything fussily frilled , checked or highly patterned tends to look too busy on the small screen .
24 In making time to provide reflection the head not only has to be clear about the relative priority of helping out , taking on chores and providing workaday leadership but also has to have confidence in the extent to which his or her colleagues expect leadership .
25 Children are not only encouraged to be proud of who they are , but to discuss any differences . ’
26 Processed food , therefore , not only tends to be deficient in essential nutrients but also contains an increasing array of possibly toxic artificial chemicals .
27 To be completely consistent perhaps Gandhi would not only have to be opposed to the killing of animals for food , but also to the killing of disease-carrying rats , mosquitoes , and venomous snakes , and those forms of plant life that are essential to a vegetarian diet .
28 Alix was not sufficiently numerate to be able to calculate the odds against such an apparently odd relationship , though she could not help but feel that its component , accidental parts were startlingly combined .
29 The Catholics , having come so far in undermining the old Orange State , were not easily going to be satisfied , and the urban working-class Protestants were not about to relinquish fifty years of social and political superiority without a fight .
30 The press are not normally allowed to be present during chambers applications .
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