Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does mental disability vary so widely that it ultimately defies definition , but the extent to which a given mental disability , in so far as it can be measured in clinical terms , handicaps a person will depend not only upon the disability itself but on the patient 's social circumstances as well . |
| 2 | For a moment his attractiveness shone so powerfully that it almost sabotaged the warning bells sounding strident alarm inside Charity 's head . |
| 3 | The candle flickered again , so badly that it almost flickered out . |
| 4 | In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature . |
| 5 | The dominant response may at present be a favourable one , but this is only maintained so long as it implicitly accepted that functions are being successfully and rationally fulfilled . |
| 6 | It naturalises itself so easily that it almost becomes a weed . |
| 7 | Isabel shoved her chair back so quickly that it almost toppled over . |
| 8 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 9 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 10 | ‘ Everything happened so rapidly that it afterwards seemed part of an evil dream , ’ Edward said slowly . |
| 11 | The history of the Ottoman Empire , for example , is only dealt with here in so far as it immediately affects non-Turkish Europe . |
| 12 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 13 | Only even if it just does er , just till summer you know . |
| 14 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 15 | For the rest , the only variety was provided by the decision of the President of the Board of Trade , somewhat eccentrically as it now appears , to change his name from Lloyd-Greame to Cunliffe-Lister . |
| 16 | Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over . |
| 17 | The brown eye rolled again , so violently that it nearly popped out of its socket : ‘ Do they look like sheep 's footprints ? ’ |
| 18 | Just just just and it just do n't bring it over here back here . |
| 19 | At first he may look funny chatting away silently but it soon becomes a bore . |
| 20 | Anne Hammond 's courageous acceptance of the cruel hand fate had dealt her had moved her far more than she would have believed possible , the more so because it only seemed to emphasise her own feeling of helplessness . |
| 21 | Given the critical impact of assumption on oil prices and quantities , the CEGB will clearly need to explain why , with oil prices rising so rapidly , it can not reduce its oil consumption more quickly than it currently expects . |
| 22 | Gartner believes that by 1995 ‘ Sun will compromise much more substantially than it previously has , de-emphasizing Sun-specific application programming interfaces and services such as Open Network Computing and Open Look in favour of X/Open , OSF and USL-endorsed interfaces . ’ |
| 23 | The midday sun at the time appears to have acted more dramatically than it subsequently does with mad dogs and Englishmen . |
| 24 | And Maastricht promises to make the Europe-machine turn still faster because it pre-emptively convokes the next set of constitutional talks for 1996 . |
| 25 | If the safeguards we propose are adopted , we are confident this can work as successfully as it already does in the magistrates ’ and county courts . ’ |
| 26 | Oh , yes , he was himself again , he would be trailing this glory after him for as long as it still shed lustre . |
| 27 | I feel this often leaves the clubhead behind so that it never catches up . |
| 28 | The tug of war was still going on , just as fiercely as it ever had , only now Charles was tugging her towards Damian Flint while Jamie hurled accusations of betrayal . |
| 29 | She cried fairly easily and it usually had some kind of effect . |
| 30 | It suited her as well as it always did , the creamy-white silk throwing her olive skin into greater contrast against her thick raven hair and dark Mediterranean eyes . |