Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite being repudiated , condemned and persecuted , Nazarean teachings continued to survive , for much longer than is generally suspected . |
| 2 | The misleadingly alarming appearance of our conclusions results from the fact that they show that where conformity is called for it is based only some of the time , and less often than is often imagined , on the legitimate authority of the government , and often on other considerations . |
| 3 | Through our misjudgement of their knowledge , metaphor becomes a lie , and we are left with the disturbing conclusion that the truth of a message is something constructed by sender and receiver , and not only as is usually held to be the casea quality of the sender 's intention or the message itself . |
| 4 | The project is already underway and is apparently focused on the speed at which programs run . |
| 5 | It is possible to paint with quite a small brush the details of shadows and shapes of clouds — in fact more so than is generally accepted . |
| 6 | The first is that people are able to learn much more quickly than is commonly assumed . |
| 7 | For this reason , I think that such difficulties arise a good deal more often than is generally appreciated . |
| 8 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 9 | Also it is not advisable to have X-rays more often than is really needed . |
| 10 | Also it is not advisable to have X-rays more often than is really needed . |
| 11 | Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) . |
| 12 | While loss of learning ability among the elderly appeared primarily linked to difficulties in understanding , recall , and error abandonment , if these were corrected at an early stage ‘ old people can learn much more readily than is commonly supposed ’ ( Welford 1966 : 5 ) . |
| 13 | I had started to fear that each of us controls the manner in which we die much more closely than is generally supposed . |
| 14 | The arrival of this ‘ adventitious ’ rural population goes back further than is often assumed , and is by no means a purely post-war phenomenon . |
| 15 | First there is another objection to be considered : do deviant identities and sexualities really denaturalize through theatrical parody as straightforwardly as is sometimes suggested ? |
| 16 | as earlier as is reasonably to do so |
| 17 | Dickens chooses his characters and their names very carefully as is clearly shown with the character of Pip . |