Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguably this cuts down on women 's contact with other people . |
| 2 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 3 | Perhaps this came about in part because his idol and friend , Wordsworth — to whom he was in some way in thrall — had left the district to go to France and make a settlement with his French mistress and daughter as a prelude to marrying his childhood sweetheart back in England . |
| 4 | How does all this come out in actual figures ? |
| 5 | Consolidation is a pleasurable process : " What does all this add up to ? " |
| 6 | Whether all this adds up to Mr Winchester 's ‘ inchoate oneness ’ , scheduled to mature in a generation or so , is open to doubt . |
| 7 | So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain . |
| 8 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 9 | We talked endlessly — there was so much to catch up on . |
| 10 | With so much going on at the office , it is a wonder that Mr Lawrence has much time left for anything else . |
| 11 | There 's so much going on in Ibiza it 's easy to put together some really great trips . |
| 12 | She clearly had no time for Burley Woodhead when there was so much going on in Bradford . |
| 13 | ‘ I never knew there was so much going on in the world , ’ she said to John one day . |
| 14 | Why not visit the Amphitheatre and watch one of the exciting International Shows or perhaps you will find something else to do — there is so much going on from Fashion Shows to Jazz Festivals . |
| 15 | ‘ There was so much going on around him after the World Cup , I 'm not sure even he knew what was going on . |
| 16 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 17 | The latter has a lyric set round an argument which Bob not so much gives in to , but agrees to differ on … |
| 18 | A Home Secretary needs one , not so much to stand up to criminals as to stand up to people with damaging non-solutions to crime . |
| 19 | Talking about his selection he said : ‘ I think that most of us look at paintings not so much to find out about them , but to find out about ourselves , for like a great novel or play , a great painting offers us a unique opportunity of investigating our own experiences . ’ |
| 20 | Together these add up to good badger country . |
| 21 | Then what happened was the AIDS crisis became apparent at the point where I was ill and , suddenly , all these people that were right-on theoreticians were suddenly all going on about AIDS . |
| 22 | What no one told the audience was that although the band 's instruments were apparently all wired up for sound , Shakatak was actually miming to a tape it had recorded in a Shepperton studio the night before . |
| 23 | On collecting these names I began to wonder whether I was being taken in but so many came up on independent lists that the villagers sent in that I am sure they are authentic . |
| 24 | A young person officially comes of age at eighteen but , when so many go on to higher education and training after leaving school , even that does not mark the end of dependence on parents or state . |
| 25 | Not so many went out to work as they do now . ’ |
| 26 | Why is it that marriage should be a relationship of such potential closeness , joy and fulfilment , and yet for so many end up in such unhappiness and hurt ? |
| 27 | So many turned up for this emergency meeting of Swindon 's railway pensioners , that more than a hundred had to stand outside . |
| 28 | This is why so many businesses fail and , almost worse , why so many linger on with the craftsman under-rewarded and never developing his full potential . |
| 29 | How long those last back in the office , and how far they actually influence decision-making , is unquantifiable . |
| 30 | The restrictions which bound individual Japanese to conformity were less those laid down by law than the more pervasive ones of social ethic and social convention which discouraged a ‘ selfish ’ individualist approach . |