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 The project is already underway and is apparently focused on the speed at which programs run .
4 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 .
5 The first is that people are able to learn much more quickly than is commonly assumed .
6 For this reason , I think that such difficulties arise a good deal more often than is generally appreciated .
7 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 .
8 Also it is not advisable to have X-rays more often than is really needed .
9 Also it is not advisable to have X-rays more often than is really needed .
10 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 ) .
11 The Diamond band is still around and is also producing more records with Emerald .
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 First there is another objection to be considered : do deviant identities and sexualities really denaturalize through theatrical parody as straightforwardly as is sometimes suggested ?
15 as earlier as is reasonably to do so
16 Dickens chooses his characters and their names very carefully as is clearly shown with the character of Pip .
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