Example sentences of "[vb -s] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Determined to break up what it sees as a cosy cartel , it has already spent over a million pounds on marketing and corporate entertainment . |
| 8 | In the case of Jupiter it has probably had only a small effect on the rate of loss of heat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 14 | As it is , SunSelect has reportedly validated only a dozen Windows applications on WABI and the thing still does n't print . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His vision is to bring soul music to Dublin , and he sets out to bring together a band with raw potential and rough and ready talent . |
| 19 | However , it does not make just a single prediction for the universe . |
| 20 | During the First World War , Radek of the Polish party and the Left abstained on national questions ; ‘ Social Democracy does not advocate either an erection of new boundary posts in Europe nor the re-erection of those which have been torn down by imperialism ’ . |
| 21 | In Washington this week Mr Ozal made it clear that he does not want either a Kurdish state or a divided Iraq . |
| 22 | The essential concept is that if a trigram does not exist then an approximate ( non-zero ) value is calculated based on the lower order transitions . |
| 23 | This does not mean merely a general concern for others , but a unique perception of the precise needs of those who came to him . |
| 24 | The demand for personal freedom , a recurrent feature in late medieval peasant society , does not reflect only a wish for improved social status , but also a hope for potential economic advantages . |
| 25 | There does not lurk somewhere a Dorian Gray-like picture of an irascible , opinionated Attila ; although people say he is not entirely without a temper . |
| 26 | The law does not allow even an adult to do with his body as he wishes . |
| 27 | In this approach , a particle does not have just a single history , as it would in a classical theory . |
| 28 | He goes down to his estate and does n't stay there a moment , we call in at Luxor and he does n't want to go ashore . |
| 29 | According to the convention , Barker himself does n't include even a postcard to Wright in his own posthumous collection , Street Ballads ( Faber , £4.99 ) , addressing instead the shades of Yeats , Kavanagh , Tennyson , Shakespeare and Catullus . |
| 30 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |