Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chapter 12 will consider more comprehensive arrangements for participation in decision making by the group whose interests are most intimately bound up with the company , the employees . |
| 2 | The virus is most effectively passed on through blood or semen , and has to enter the bloodstream to become established . |
| 3 | Nor perhaps need one dwell on the powerful thematic use of the expanded , minor-ninth version of the idea , especially as it expresses Grimes 's insatiable yearning for " haven " , for acceptance and respect — a yearning so intimately bound up with his personal tragedy because , to most of us , these things seem comparatively within reach ( whether we desire them or not ) but are patently and without qualification beyond Peter 's grasp : [ 8,10,17 ] . |
| 4 | Both of these recent releases from the duo 's Threshold House label tinker with material that has long since gone out of print in an attempt to create something else . |
| 5 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 6 | If you thought that era had been long since killed off by the replacement of British wrestling on our screens by the outrageous comic-book exploits of the Americans , you would be horribly wrong . |
| 7 | This is all well and good until you go looking for a sound that the Quad will deliver only when the output level is quite a way up — at which point your mixer has long since run out of headroom . |
| 8 | His mouth was clasped to her breast but she had long since run out of milk to feed him . |
| 9 | Even though my children 's reading has long since moved on to Roald Dahl , C S Lewis and Judy Blume , the story ‘ template ’ is there , the dubious role models of their best-loved tales are firmly entrenched and I 'm beginning to wonder if they are there for life . |
| 10 | They would instantly begin questioning the way the world had been running since their enforced absence , and they would not approve ; whereas those who lay softly beneath the blowing grasses , the quiet slate , had long since turned over in rest and when they woke would wake like children and smile at the sky . |
| 11 | This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas . |
| 12 | Small coats with hoods , sent to the family from abroad , and long since grown out of , were taken away , together with twenty-eight videos . |
| 13 | She had long since grown out of her disco dingbat phase . |
| 14 | Of course , he 'd long since grown out of it . |
| 15 | It is good to know that Scottish Amicable has long since grown sufficiently to be able to invest in large properties . |
| 16 | And the Postman 's spectacle was covered in greenflies from the vigorous activity up the tree : " No , but I says to him " — " Really , all right " — " Well " — " and " — " Oh , you 've done it " — " Must go down to the " — " Taps , got to get some " went the song to the rhythm of empty beer bottles dropping into the side pocket receptacles of tree-holder number 29 on the dustmen 's route — and the tip-holding pockets for the dustmen were not full or anything cos the ladies had all forgotten their purses , and the paper , folding , crumpled , torn money had long since fluttered down from their knicker-elastic banks . |
| 17 | By the time Alaric finally finished the twelfth Runefang Sigmar has long since passed eastward to whatever fate became him , and the original chieftains who had fought at Black Fire Pass were long dead . |
| 18 | All landmarks that he knew had long since sunk out of sight beyond the rise . |
| 19 | But it stuck in his mind that getting to England was something perilous and rare like rounding the Horn , it must have had something to do with his allowing himself to get so wholly cut off from Constanza later on . |
| 20 | It would be like a strong wind tearing into the warmth , ripping the fabric of the old rugs , overturning the lamps , plucking loose all the hair so skilfully wound up into neat and careful buns , unravelling her mother 's dainty stitches , unravelling her mother . |
| 21 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 22 | The Byzantine church in question was dedicated to St Polyeuktos , an obscure Early Christian martyr ( who is perhaps only remembered nowadays as the subject of a tragedy by Pierre Corneill ) . |
| 23 | You wo n't touch me , you have n't done a thing for this goddam exhibition you were so all fired up about , and it 's OK ? |
| 24 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |
| 25 | Like its fragmented nature , housework 's ‘ never-endingness ’ is so much bound up with the idea of housework that the two are not conceived apart . |
| 26 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |
| 27 | Something of a spiritual vacuum prevailed following the discrediting of the orthodoxy hitherto imposed , and the values that had been so obviously tied up with the victor 's success and the material prosperity of the US seemed to be espoused with enthusiasm . |
| 28 | A proportion of hypoxaemic children may be so physiologically compromised late in the course of illness that treatment with oxygen will not prevent death . |
| 29 | A recent academic study compared the training available to young people in this country and that available to young people in Germany — for so long held out as the model that all other countries should follow in this regard . |
| 30 | AS Alan Irons so rightly pointed out in The Scotsman Sportsview yesterday , the concern of England 's Jonathan Webb and Dewi Morris for the injured Craig Chalmers in the one-hundredth playing of the Calcutta Cup was no different from the chivalrous camaraderie of bygone days . |