Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far the policy has succeeded : the stockmarket fell by 48% from peak to trough , but has since recovered about a third of its losses . |
| 2 | Repairing electric motors is hardly a growth business ( British Coal is not the only customer in long-term decline ) and Dowding already has about a quarter of the market . |
| 3 | The board encompasses the entire Earth : the only game ever attempted has already taken almost a billion years and shows no signs of a conclusion . |
| 4 | A good example is Dances With Wolves which cost us four thousand as a and has already sold over a hundred and twenty thousand copies . |
| 5 | Pinnacle UK — partner , but not subsidiary of the US concern — says it has already sold about a hundred boards fitted with Cypress ' standard 40MHz Sparc RISC set . |
| 6 | Solbourne has already put together a disk array system tailored for Oracle Financial users — RAID capability and a native Novell Inc NetWare implementation follow next year . |
| 7 | Under the auspices of a previous coming together of the same organisations found in HOG ( plus one or two others ) , the Forum has already put together a set of Open Management Interoperability Points — OMNIpoints — which define interoperable network management products . |
| 8 | Determined to break up what it sees as a cosy cartel , it has already spent over a million pounds on marketing and corporate entertainment . |
| 9 | Publishers will need deliberately to set aside a proportion of ‘ play money ’ , which they can afford to lose , but on which they will seek to recuperate the large returns that go with true risk investment . |
| 10 | In the case of Jupiter it has probably had only a small effect on the rate of loss of heat . |
| 11 | The EC has also put forward an advisory , non-binding , maximum figure that would work out at about 87.5p a gallon at current rates . |
| 12 | The Government Health Warning beneath the images has now become merely a product identification sign — without the " warning " we should not even begin to recognize what product was offered in the remarkable pictorial rebus above . |
| 13 | As this institution has now become purely a slanging match ( unfortunately the only time guaranteed to attract a full complement of Members ) , how can it possibly be taken as a serious part of governing the country . |
| 14 | This research project examines Southampton , one of the most dynamic of these ‘ sunbelt ’ city regions which throughout the 1970's generated more jobs than any other urban area in England and which has seemingly incurred only a relatively small loss of jobs since the onset of recession . |
| 15 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 16 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 17 | In New York , meanwhile , the UN Security Council was expected today to pass unanimously a resolution establishing the first war crimes tribunal since 1945-49 . |
| 18 | Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council . |
| 19 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
| 20 | Turner in his studies of Ndembu symbols and ritual ( 1957 and 1967 ) tried explicitly to bring together a sociological and a psychological explanatory framework for the understanding of ritual . |
| 21 | De Niro 's diner has been so eagerly anticipated with some magazines printing details of the menu months in advance that it has nearly overshadowed Tribeca Productions , which has quietly put together an impressive list of future projects . |
| 22 | The bed that Boy climbed into that morning , knowing that he would n't sleep , but wanting just to lie there a while , was on the twentieth floor of a council block right close by the river on the east side of the city . |
| 23 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says . |
| 25 | He 'd already burned quite a few wallfuls , and had come down , under protest as much to keep Ajayi happy as anything else . |
| 26 | She was surprised how much the gardens were used ; they 'd always seemed just a square on a city map before , not a three-dimensional patch of wildness surrounded by traffic . |
| 27 | Now looking back seemed just a reminder of the mistakes we were still making . |
| 28 | He recalled excitedly bringing home a drawing from school , which a teacher had praised . |
| 29 | The rally was attended by over 3,000 deputies to soviets at all levels ( from rural soviets to the USSR Supreme Soviet ) , and these met subsequently to adopt overwhelmingly a declaration calling on the USSR Supreme Soviet to enter into negotiations " on the restoration of Estonian state independence " . |
| 30 | And Ferris added a stunning third before half-time , rushing in to head home an inch perfect McCoy cross . |