Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharp was unable to name specifically the brands which had most successfully taken this approach , but confirmed the list was dominated by the large US multinationals such as Ford and Coca-Cola . |
| 2 | The coelocanth fish , regarded as a " living fossil " surviving from geological prehistory , has been placed on Appendix 1 of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , thereby effectively banning all trafficking of the fish . |
| 3 | He is not doing badly enough to find another nominee through a brokered convention , but he is not doing well enough to please a majority even within his own party . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 've got a way of making it taste a little less foul this year , ’ said Jack Nopps one Christmas . |
| 5 | The issue is so delicately balanced that goal difference could even decide who goes up . |
| 6 | My nose had long since lost all feeling and I massaged it back into life . |
| 7 | The whole PWL format has long since lost any spark of life and songs like ‘ Too Much Of A Good Thing ’ and ‘ Finer Feelings ’ are simply uninspiring , totally predictable and tedious . |
| 8 | She had been brought up as a chapel-goer , and two generations back her family had been staunch Wesleyans , but she herself had long since dropped any pretence to faith of any kind , and now considered all religious observation as ridiculous frivolity . |
| 9 | No one worried much ; people in a hurry have long since found another way to travel . |
| 10 | We are slow to apprehend danger ; would much rather ignore some threat to our way of life , hoping it will go away . |
| 11 | I would much rather see more emphasis placed on er , enhancing the special constabulary , er , because I think that is a , a far more er , productive initiative . |
| 12 | It was seldom worth tangling with wizards , they so rarely had any treasure worth speaking of . |
| 13 | This usually occurred indirectly , but none the less effectively introducing this information which Parliament had tried to rule out as admissible evidence . |
| 14 | So little wonder that Mains should return to his country home just south of Dunedin and take with him a rather jaundiced view of the workings of New Zealand rugby , and the partiality of some of the media who followed the Stewart party line in South Africa . |
| 15 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 16 | And they 've been friends long enough to take each other for granted , turn up when they feel like it , and shut up when they 're busy . |
| 17 | I could not bring myself to suggest that she was not likely to live much longer , certainly not long enough to make either course imprudent . |
| 18 | Thinking it had taken the old baggage long enough to show some concern , and it would take more than a few mumbled words to alter things . |
| 19 | Some vineyards may not be mentioned because they have only recently been cultivated and , therefore , have not been in production long enough to establish any sort of reputation . |
| 20 | How times changed — now someone would express their concern ove whether the thing had been cooked long enough to annihilate any salmonella ! |
| 21 | Paper A. Perhaps merely to receive this paper from the Appeal sub-committee , fifteenth of October . |
| 22 | Pruning to the same hard degree invariably results in an explosion of growth , and such varieties are really much better given enough space elsewhere to do their own thing , and be treated as shrub roses . |
| 23 | The dance music is both fiery and resilient , and the mystic landscape of the famous epilogue so tantalisingly evoked that value judgements fade away as surely as the music 's vision itself . |
| 24 | Lucker and myself lie together idly exploring each other 's bodies with the curiosity of two baby elephants who are too young to take advantage of what they have found . |
| 25 | They sat down together facing each other , her face full of unaccustomed excitement , and then she rose to fetch him a dish to tickle his appetite , six pale gleaming molluscs like oysters , with wedges of lime around them , prettily , and a sprinkling of red pepper over them . |
| 26 | The fact that the " adornment " theory was entertained for so long deserves some explanation and its appropriateness can not be altogether dismissed in the case of " artificial " styles cultivated by such Renaissance mannerists as Sidney and Lyly . |
| 27 | The flow of water in and out of the Pool is so greatly impeded that evaporation under the grilling sun has made the waters very salty indeed . |
| 28 | Lothar having tried for three days to do the dividing , said he " could not do so because of his ignorance of the places involved " and so finally left that task to his father . |
| 29 | Basically just to put some flesh on the bones of what Michael has said that that is a view of the w of the Greater York study that erm the A sixty four south corridor is more likely er to er serve the needs of Leeds then it is to serve the needs of of of York . |
| 30 | And then they was eating their supper so just want another piece of bread , and they 'd nearly finished the tape . |