Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since all communities are man-made , no such entity exists , and the chances are small indeed that any community properly so called will coincide with any pragmatically contrived constituency . |
| 2 | For a person who has been severely deprived in early childhood , envy of the baby who is receiving all the care that was and still is so much wanted can feel intolerable . |
| 3 | They want him to detonate such a great burst of passion that all those millions of waverers upon whom so much depends will rush to support him . |
| 4 | The overall picture , however , was by no means so clearcut as the data so far considered might tend to suggest . |
| 5 | Neither of the formulas so far mentioned will do ; the Gibbs formula gives an entropy that for an isolated system of molecules is easily shown to stay constant in time rather than to increase , and the Boltzmann formula also does not have the desired non-decrease property if the system is not a gas . |
| 6 | A second cemetery has been identified at Borstal , about a mile south-west of the town near the river bank ; it appears to have contained mainly inhumations , and the coins so far recovered would indicate a third- and fourth-century use . |
| 7 | Unlike his brother he genuinely respected the constitutional structures of Hungary and the Austrian Netherlands : he was attracted by the possibility that the local autonomy which they so strongly represented might make government cheaper by reducing the number of centrally appointed officials needed to run it . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm working on the principle that most people are okay unless they get muroculous with drink , when they become arse-holes ; you 're behaving like an arse-hole now , so maybe drink 'll make you okay . ’ |
| 9 | After considerable deliberations , a great deal of attention , many discussions with the various parties concerned — no doubt the kind of conference which the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) so naively believes will produce a solution — the committee came forward with the only viable solution , total deregulation of Sunday trading . |
| 10 | Some wickedness you would perhaps unknowingly perpetrate would see you in there , or some gesture towards a justice which no one else subscribed to . |
| 11 | Diabetics tend to have higher serum cholesterol levels than non-diabetes ( Santen et al , 1972 ) , and the old diabetic diet only recently abandoned may have been a contributing factor . |
| 12 | People who are only mildly mentally handicapped may have been born with average mental abilities , in the sense that there was no identifiable problem inherent in the pregnancy or birth . |
| 13 | In such circumstances the opinions and interests of those most directly affected ought to count for more than the opinions of those of us who are only marginally affected , if at all . |
| 14 | It is to be hoped that in the course of time the word ‘ fear ’ used in the context of the foregoing will be abandoned in favour of the word ‘ foreboding ’ , for the conscience , once properly developed should give warning rather than frighten , and therefore enable the individual to avoid that which could give rise to real fear . |
| 15 | However , some radionuclides having longer half-lives or being more rapidly dispersed can become globally distributed . |
| 16 | " Our forests , too ! " the more politically minded would point out . |
| 17 | The Distributed Object Management System is based on the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture and as currently defined will support MS-DOS , Windows , NetWare and Unix . |
| 18 | Since communication is , first and foremost , a collaborative undertaking , a task where such behaviour is encouraged or even naturally elicited would represent the ideal at which to aim . |
| 19 | Now this phrase strictly controlled erm I I I wanted to ask it myself because I you know trying to push it through to what it actually means I think the county council if you like has taken it at what may be face value and said well strictly controlled must mean something . |
| 20 | Quite often Colborne would get an equally honest and unwelcome reply . |
| 21 | De Pomiane was the first writer to propound such happenings as the fusion of egg yolks and olive oil in a mayonnaise , the sizzling of a potato chip when plunged into fat for deep-frying , in language so straightforward , so graphic , that even the least scientifically minded could grasp the principles instead of simply learning the rules . |
| 22 | The person who no longer believes will blame what he believed rather than the way he believed , and the rationalization this involves means that the chances of his reconsidering belief in the future are greatly diminished . |
| 23 | Numerous quantitative studies have been done on both birds and mammals in the last twenty years ( reviews in Immelmann , 1972 ; Bateson , 1978a ) and have shown that early experience can have profound and lasting effects on sexual preferences . |
| 24 | A more refined psycho than , say , Lee Marvin or Neville Brand , but a crazy 's still a crazy and I did n't think someone that far gone could take up where Daine had left off . |
| 25 | Proof that these ailments are essentially genetically determined can come only through the knowledge of the DNA sequences of these genes and their variants . |
| 26 | Yet , the physical demands of numerous pregnancies too closely spaced may have maleffects for the mother and child , and commencement of childbearing before the woman is physically mature may represent a serious risk to health and life for the mother and her young children . |