Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had long since gone dead on politicians . |
| 2 | I 'd much rather see Sharp on the left , he seems to fit in there ! |
| 3 | She had not known him long enough to become accustomed to the impact of his looks , but she felt confident she could hide any extra fluttering of the pulse which he gave her . |
| 4 | To grow grain even for home use , one needs fertile land that is ploughable and a growing season long enough to ensure ripening of the crops . |
| 5 | That the dominions which he had so laboriously assembled fragmented upon his death ( indeed , his position in Norway had collapsed before it ) is a pointer to Cnut 's abilities , and of how individual , and hence transitory , political achievement could be . |
| 6 | Office blocks are less easily priced relative to one another than Peru 2005 and Argentina 1998 . |
| 7 | METALLICA are likely to only just break even on their double-header US stadium tour with Guns N' Roses following guitarist James Hetfield 's recent injury . |
| 8 | The result in February 1974 was a Labour manifesto that promised ‘ a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families ’ — and only just stopped short of promising to nationalise the country 's leading 25 companies . |
| 9 | His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla . |
| 10 | I 've only just got used to responding : ‘ Two pounds please , teacher ’ . |
| 11 | as has been mentioned , which has been something that often has been composed by women and transmitted by women , and there 's recently been an anthology published of Scottish womens poetry , I think that 's a tradition and is perhaps related to second point , the fact that the material 's only just becoming available to us . |
| 12 | He travelled around the County , staying at various homes where he was apparently always made welcome for the sake of his interesting tales and where he ‘ paid ’ for his keep by means of pencil sketches of his hosts . |
| 13 | The kitchen , which Mungo had only ever seen full of people , seemed incomplete ; waiting for human activity to bring it to life . |
| 14 | Although this event would signify the end not merely of another king in the nation , but of a dynasty which had so far extended unbroken into prehistory , no one had any idea just when it would take place . |
| 15 | And pleas from his predecessor for 50 more officers to fight crime have so far gone unanswered by the Home Office . |
| 16 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 17 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 18 | The French , on the other hand , have so far stopped short at thinking . |
| 19 | it is clear that the machinery of representative parliamentary democracy has so far proved unsuitable as the mechanism for translating personal preferences into day-to-day practice . |
| 20 | There is a sense in which the European context makes possible what has hitherto often seemed desirable to many but impossible of achievement . |
| 21 | It represents a way of life , it seems , that has only really become possible in the nineteenth century , although Kepler may have approximated it . |
| 22 | Short windows do n't necessarily have to have short curtains which only really look good in small cottagy or attic windows . |
| 23 | Freeborn was looking down at his big toes with mild distaste as if they were errant members whose deficiencies had only now become apparent to him . |
| 24 | Publishers are only now becoming aware of many of the new problems that producing and distributing computer programs will present , and publication methods for such material must be considered experimental at this stage . |
| 25 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
| 26 | Yet our koinonia ( fellowship ) so often falls short of the unity Christ desires . |
| 27 | The proportion of the workforce covered by medical records ( the source of our data ) is probably greater than on most sites because a visit to the medical centre was one of the few legitimate reasons for breaking off work , so often made irksome by harsh weather . |
| 28 | But also I am suffering a pleasurable and painful feeling , a feeling so often made banal by film , of time reprieved and relived . |
| 29 | He so often seems young in a way I ca n't explain . |
| 30 | Abbado ( DG ) comparably exploits the work 's dynamic extremes , but so often seems ill at ease , or simply indifferent to the idiom . |