Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Established in 1985 with an initial funding of about £14 million , DELTA has now commissioned 30 projects for its exploratory phase , most due to report back to the Commission early in 1991 . |
| 2 | Arguably this cuts down on women 's contact with other people . |
| 3 | Anne 's job involved shift work , six o'clock until two , two o'clock until ten , and ten o'clock until six in the morning so she was rarely free to go out with Sarah . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry to butt in like this . ’ |
| 5 | This is not to say that the simplistic socialist argument — that all would be well if only Labour stood up for its class interests with the same vigour that the Tories stand up for theirs — is correct . |
| 6 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 7 | It would then be all right to go back to England and Glyn ? |
| 8 | Many educationalists in the nineteenth century believed that for the young it was right to teach only what was certain , such as geometry and classical languages ; once these had been mastered it would be all right to get on to more hypothetical subjects . |
| 9 | She had no illusions about why her children were so willing to shell out for their mother 's annual pilgrimage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | How does all this come out in actual figures ? |
| 12 | Consolidation is a pleasurable process : " What does all this add up to ? " |
| 13 | Whether all this adds up to Mr Winchester 's ‘ inchoate oneness ’ , scheduled to mature in a generation or so , is open to doubt . |
| 14 | She 's obviously prepared to put up with your terms . |
| 15 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 16 | ‘ Your daddy was terribly brave to stand up to them alone , ’ said Cheryl , in awe . |
| 17 | ‘ Listen , I do n't know what you 're up to now , but let me make it quite clear that I 'm only prepared to put up with you for the sake of the station and my job . |
| 18 | It 's so much easier to fall back on ‘ That 's the way things are done ’ or ‘ It 's the way I was brought up . ’ |
| 19 | One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out . |
| 20 | One answer is that studies of comprehension are generally very much easier to carry out in a controlled way than studies of spontaneous production . |
| 21 | It 's much easier to get through to the other side of the world than to the other side of London , and the lines are much clearer too . |
| 22 | Much easier to get along with . ’ |
| 23 | You know the old adage that , I mean one of the reasons is it 's so much easier to come up with a scandal , to come with a rats in the basement or something like that and intrigue people , than it is to come up with some , the positive angles . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Why do people seem to be so anti-gipsy to start out with ? |
| 27 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and him trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 29 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 30 | We talked endlessly — there was so much to catch up on . |