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

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1 Established in 1985 with an initial funding of about £14 million , DELTA has now commissioned 30 projects for its exploratory phase , most due to report back to the Commission early in 1991 .
2 Anne 's job involved shift work , six o'clock until two , two o'clock until ten , and ten o'clock until six in the morning so she was rarely free to go out with Sarah .
3 ‘ I 'm terribly sorry to butt in like this . ’
4 This is not to say that the simplistic socialist argument — that all would be well if only Labour stood up for its class interests with the same vigour that the Tories stand up for theirs — is correct .
5 It would then be all right to go back to England and Glyn ?
6 Many educationalists in the nineteenth century believed that for the young it was right to teach only what was certain , such as geometry and classical languages ; once these had been mastered it would be all right to get on to more hypothetical subjects .
7 She had no illusions about why her children were so willing to shell out for their mother 's annual pilgrimage .
8 She 's obviously prepared to put up with your terms .
9 I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground .
10 ‘ Your daddy was terribly brave to stand up to them alone , ’ said Cheryl , in awe .
11 ‘ Listen , I do n't know what you 're up to now , but let me make it quite clear that I 'm only prepared to put up with you for the sake of the station and my job .
12 Why do people seem to be so anti-gipsy to start out with ?
13 ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and him trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain .
14 ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain .
15 ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain .
16 " The autumn gales 'll be on us in a few weeks , and the volunteers wo n't be so easy to come by after that . "
17 Replacements for your plantation wo n't be so easy to come by in future . "
18 And in a sense , he actually very neatly defined several different points without getting his knickers in a twist , and wearing different hats it would be so easy to come out with a muddled thing which would end up by being him feeling uncomfortable but him also being part of the Government and the Atomic Energy Authority .
19 But it is not so easy to legislate out of existence the cultures which produce these practices .
20 It is especially easy to see out of and manoeuvre in tight spots , which is why , apart fro anything else , you see so many of them being driven so aggressively in heavy traffic .
21 And as a business , politician and freemason , it was only natural to go off to the golf course on a Sunday .
22 Variously ascribed to Andrea di Lione , Pietro Testa and Mattia Preti , it is a fascinating art-historical curiosity , that in my opinion is sufficiently unusual to hang on to a while longer .
23 And he knows his next clanger will trigger yet another repeat showing — as well as threatening the first-team place he has worked so hard to hold down at table-topping Blackburn .
24 It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' .
25 But they can be incredibly frustrating when something goes wrong because it 's so hard to get down to a nitty gritty level to sort out your problems .
26 I did n't really stop to look earlier — I was just so glad to get out of the weather . ’
27 Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence .
28 But they are keen on the average private investor because he does not expect to have lunch once a quarter and is less likely to sell out during a takeover bid .
29 There is again some anecdotal evidence that such degrees are less likely to lead on to postgraduate research , and some of the figures in Table 3.2 suggest this ; but such assertions need to be tested empirically .
30 You 're less likely to end up with gaps and assumptions . ’
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