Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 2 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 3 | So perhaps escape is possible . |
| 4 | It is thus important to use language which reflects a real change of attitude to people who for so long have been unwilling recipients of services designed largely for society 's comfort and not theirs . |
| 5 | ‘ Losing Danny so suddenly and so pointlessly has been terrible . |
| 6 | Set up in 1983 under the Finance Act , the BES has been a major facilitator of the channelling of funds to businesses ( Peat Marwick 1986 ) , many of which would apparently not have been able to raise capital without the help of the BES , although it was also reported that very little of the funds were provided for seedcorn businesses . |
| 7 | I would say simply , having regard to certain observations by Mr. Park in his judgment at p. 8 , shortly before the passage which I have cited , that I am not satisfied that the requirements of paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) would necessarily not have been satisfied . |
| 8 | But it may all not have been necessary . |
| 9 | Even the jar looked costly , Alida thought , chalice-shaped , gilt-lidded and made out of what could so easily have been milk-glass . |
| 10 | Victory , perhaps to their own surprise , now seemed almost within the invaders ' grasp but at a Council of War , held at the prince 's headquarters in Exeter House , Derby , on the morning of Thursday 5 December , Lord George Murray , whose tactics so far had been masterly , astounded his fellow-commanders by remarking that ‘ the first thing to be spoken of was how far it was prudent to advance further ’ . |
| 11 | The treatment so far had been innocuous : quinine pills and injections of alum water . |
| 12 | The neutron flux so far obtained is insufficient to attain the desired accuracy of measurement . ’ |
| 13 | But the steps taken so far have been tentative ones , forced by bitter economic realities . |
| 14 | Seriously , the games so far have been great ( I have Megatapes 22–30 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Results so far have been impressive — just wait until they get into their new dealing room ! ’ |
| 16 | The results so far have been encouraging . |
| 17 | The Kiwi tour continues at Wigan , where after the Oldham upset , the home side need a confidence booster almost as badly as the visitors , whose efforts so far have been disjointed . |
| 18 | The activities described so far have been concerned with periodically recurring factors relating to corporate planning and monitoring of results as part of functional management . |
| 19 | His plan was to push the banks into investing more risk capital — a pressure which the banks so far have been able to resist . |
| 20 | Three of the most successful organic concerns so far have been Welsh Organic Foods in Lampeter , West Wales Organic Growers and Brynllys Farm in Aberystwyth . |
| 21 | The line from Paris so far has been consistent : devaluation would do more harm than good , by fuelling inflation and upsetting stability . |
| 22 | When we say that the response of the Community so far has been ineffectual , that is not a comment on the team spirit and competence of that monitoring force . |
| 23 | A hospital spokeswoman said : ‘ Everything so far has been straightforward . |
| 24 | Even so , the official response from Moscow so far has been muted . |
| 25 | The response so far has been promising . |
| 26 | The council says it 's tried everything but so far has been unable to grant the old lady her wish . |
| 27 | But institutional investors ' reaction so far has been unenthusiastic or even hostile , and without their support the APB 's ideas will never get off the ground . |
| 28 | The bulk of this book so far has been concerned with looking at what happens when people lose something . |
| 29 | Research so far has been concerned with one segment of A , catalogue use . |
| 30 | A lot of our discussion so far has been concerned with this kind of " saying " , but I have purposely avoided introducing any of the technical jargon of semiotics ( the theory of signs ) and this is now leading me into difficulty because the ordinary use of words in social anthropological discourse is crudely imprecise . |