Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't be misled , the book will most assuredly sink in a hot tub . |
| 2 | Eh , , I mean there 's a idea the money that 's been spent on the railways instead of on motorways we 'd be a lot better off , and I think and Partners subscribed to that because I think that erm , had more money being spent on the railways that we would have been much better off , oh I 'd much rather go on a train journey than on a motor bridge journey . |
| 3 | The Russians would much rather deal with a right-wing conservative any day because they know where they stand , rather than a left-wing liberal who might do something off the wall , like act on principle , for heaven 's sake . |
| 4 | After all , cannabis does much less harm to a person 's health than nicotine , and yet cigarettes are legal . |
| 5 | The question arises whether a subcontract owner-driver is really an independent contractor or , in fact , because he does so much work for a particular haulier , an employee of that haulier . |
| 6 | The teacher can only only come on a Monday morning . |
| 7 | Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist . |
| 8 | One very distinguishable talent of Dickens is the way how he can so easily move from a very serious solemn scene to an extremely comical one . |
| 9 | It can so easily look like a stunt or be represented as a desire wilfully to shape malleable material . |
| 10 | Some have been accused — rightly or wrongly — of preferring not to sell all their available time rather than to reduce their price , and most areas now follow a practice which can only really work in a seller 's market — ‘ pre-emption ’ . |
| 11 | Darklands is a valiant attempt to create something new , but will only really appeal to a very limited ( and dedicated audience ) . |
| 12 | Referring to variations in the legislative environment , Grant and Wallace explain that , under the Canadian industrial relations system , strike may only legally occur after a compulsory waiting period has expired and a conciliation board has met to discuss the difference between workers and employers . |
| 13 | The proper equipment makes the whole operation far easier and safer , and encourages instructors to practise those exercises which can so often result in a long walk back to the launch point . |
| 14 | Her whole point in life is that people criticize her because she does erm she can only actually look after a very small percentage of the people in Calcutta who need help and they all sort of say , Well she does that bit but what about the rest of them ? |
| 15 | Finding a sufficient number of tokens of a variable for each speaker did not apparently emerge as a problem in the early urban surveys which followed Labov 's 1966 model . |
| 16 | Hand-beating an aluminium panel does not necessarily make for a better car , confers no empirically measurable added value : nonetheless , it is the hand-wroughtness of Aston Martins that make otherwise sensible men write out cheques for £120,000 . |
| 17 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 18 | However , re-use of interface details will not necessarily result in a substantially similar expression and , in the example in Figure 3 , the expression ( program listings and structure ) may be quite different . |
| 19 | Planning is a process , and it need not necessarily result in a product . |
| 20 | Such relations do not necessarily hold within a phase if the average stresses and strains for that phase are substituted in the above . ) |
| 21 | A Halifax spokesman stressed the £20m provision on loans to the Kentish development Burrell 's Wharf was highly prudent and would not necessarily lead to a loss of the same magnitude . |
| 22 | Saturday 's name change was the sixth this century , and the previous alterations did not necessarily lead to a radical renewal . |
| 23 | He reaffirmed the belief he held then , that the use of soft drugs did not necessarily lead to a progression to hard drugs , although he conceded that he would never have encountered any other drug if he had not become involved with smoking marijuana . |
| 24 | The transformation of the problematic does not necessarily lead to a transformation of the form of validity of knowledge . |
| 25 | Professor Chapman points out that this does not necessarily lead to a drop in standards of physical care , but stresses the apparent risk that patients may occasionally be made to feel ‘ merely an appendage to a machine ’ . |
| 26 | It has been rightly pointed out that a quick ball from such a scrum does not necessarily lead to a running game and that the centre of the field , already bustling with activity due to the increased fitness and range of the modern player , would be clogged up with roaming loose forwards relieved of scrummage duties . |
| 27 | To abandon ‘ news values ’ as the sole criteria of the media would not necessarily lead to a dereliction of duty . |
| 28 | Sympathy with the conditions of the poor did not necessarily lead to a desire for reform by the state but for further voluntary action . |
| 29 | Restricting car access does not necessarily lead to a loss of trade . |
| 30 | That is to say , the variation is not necessarily patterned in one single linguistic dimension ( for example , it does not necessarily move in a single phonetic direction : it may diverge in two or more directions ) , nor does it necessarily display a unilinear or unidirectional pattern in terms of any independent ‘ social ’ variable : on the contrary , the patterns shown in relation to different social variables may conflict and interact in a variety of ways . |