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 | Yes , we 'll have , at present we 're scheduled to have about 30 aircraft on static display , and these are aircraft from er the third air force bases , the bases within the United Kingdom , you 're just about assured of being able to see an F15 , up close , an F16 up close , an A 10 , and some other aircraft that are stationed in and around er Europe . |
| 13 | Butterworth was ‘ on the skids ’ , having been made a scapegoat by Acheson for the bankruptcy of American policy in China ; Butterworth would shortly be posted abroad , which was correct as he soon afterwards departed to be American minister in Stockholm . |
| 14 | I think its a case of the grass being greener on the other side , you know , you never seem to be happy with what you have yourself you always see it in somebody else , gosh I wish I had her hair or her skin or her body shape , you just never seem to be satisfied with what you 've got and yet other people see you as looking very attractive |
| 15 | Given the huge amount of resources expended in detecting and penalising abuse , it is more widely criticised for being inefficient . |
| 16 | The answer is that , despite his biographer 's sterling efforts to dig up neat psychoanalytic excuses for even his most venal sins , a Dickens often given to kindness , empathy and geniality but more predominantly disposed to be cruel , self-centred , self-pitying and sententious does not come over as an especially lovable specimen . |
| 17 | But spontaneous vigour of citizens and of political and religious institutions was not , happily , any longer felt to be sufficient . |
| 18 | What is in question is the comfortable argument that socially acceptable forms of work organisation always just happen to be those that are the most efficient . |
| 19 | She is usually just trying to be friendly and helpful and supportive when the love crazed imbecile is trying to explain that his wife does n't understand him … ( yawn ) . |
| 20 | The improvements to be attained by extending the lexicon further also appear to be minimal . |
| 21 | erm At least it can be more nearly said to be mental than anything else . |
| 22 | In non-western countries the model of health care which has been imported and which is still often considered to be optimal is one based on the same medical model . |
| 23 | But it is a language once again demonstrated to be volatile , unable to have its discursive play controlled , de-centring any attempt at a structured organisation . |
| 24 | It 's still actually going to be smaller than France in area , it 's quite interesting to er remember that , but it 's economic power is already way ahead of anyone elses , and that 's going to increase . |
| 25 | Repetitive waves — namely , two or more separate peaks in response to a single swallow are also generally believed to be abnormal . |
| 26 | erm is probably also going to be easier for me . |
| 27 | The opening of the Aswan Dam in 1970 was also initially considered to be beneficial to Egypt 's agricultural productivity , as its capacity to control the Nile 's sometimes erratic flow facilitated the conversion of all arable land to perennial cropping . |
| 28 | He fluctuated between varying combinations of the defence of Saudi Arabia , the restoration of the Kuwaiti government and state integrity , the key strategic American interest in the Gulf , the oil supply , freedom and international law , and the much hinted-at wholesale destruction of a ruler and a Middle Eastern power recently supported but now suddenly discovered to be evil . |
| 29 | Fish , too , often incorrectly thought to be incommunicative and largely undemonstrative creatures , even ‘ sing ’ , like birds , and communicate territorial , sexual and social signals in the realm of low-frequency sound . |
| 30 | Male dysfunction due to fear or anxiety about such a condition is much more likely to be responsible ; and female dysfunction or dissatisfaction is often mistakenly thought to be due to it when the true causes lie elsewhere . |