Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , perhaps only the new Foreign Secretary could sell it to Mrs Thatcher , and he will have his own notions of ripe time . |
| 2 | It was not so much the right hon. Gentleman 's arrogance to which I objected — we are accustomed to that . |
| 3 | He was a wonderful player but it was not so much the true German sound . |
| 4 | It is permissible for journalists to get drunk at these affairs — and indeed encouraged — but not recommended that the executives of the company doing the presentation do so , and especially not the joint managing directors . |
| 5 | Presumably R and R B would of contacted the big papers but , obviously not the small local ones |
| 6 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 7 | It was only once the basic political problems of the transition had been resolved that a coherent strategy could emerge for confronting the immediate economic crisis , and for dealing with serious underlying questions such as the restructuring of basic sectors of industry and the modernization of state finances and administration . |
| 8 | Men found her formidable and she advanced into her twenties , long past the usual marrying age , without Nuri having received a suitable offer . |
| 9 | So far the Yugoslav civil war has been waged mainly by activist minorities plus the professionals . |
| 10 | For it is indeed time some party concerned itself with all those intangible forms of wealth that can not be included in anything called so appropriately the gross national product . |
| 11 | So now the entire silly episode had been fully accounted for ! |
| 12 | That includes ties to the European Community , the Council of Europe and one day perhaps even the Western European Union , if not NATO itself . |
| 13 | You should , of course , still be treated fairly and this may entail your employer looking round his organisation , perhaps even the whole corporate group of which he is part , to see if you can be fitted in elsewhere at an appropriate level , before finally deciding to terminate your employment . |
| 14 | Perhaps then the current expanding universe resulted not from a big bang singularity , but from an earlier contracting phase ; as the universe had collapsed the particles in it might not have all collided , but had flown past and then away from each other , producing the present expansion of the universe . |
| 15 | Perhaps then the apparent bilateral representation of language in young children was an artefact . |
| 16 | However , as far as churches and some other faith communities are concerned , City Challenge and the new Urban Partnership Fund are of limited significance ; the former because it is geographically limited to small areas of Bradford and Kirklees , and the latter because it is so meagre ; its national total of £20 million equals only twice the annual Urban Programme receipts in our three districts ( £10.8 million in 1992/3 ) . |
| 17 | It was only when the restrictive regulatory apparatus , with its traditional segregation of financial functions , was finally dismantled that conglomerates could firmly establish themselves . |
| 18 | The sexual lives of carers are often severely handicapped , especially where the ageing relative lives within the home . |
| 19 | Not long afterwards the intrinsic intellectual inferiority of the American Indians was formally proclaimed by papal decree . |
| 20 | There is a strong familial component to this type of diabetes and perhaps ideally the primary medical care service should provide an annual postprandial blood glucose test for those over 40 years with a first-degree relative who has developed diabetes before the age of 65 years . |
| 21 | It gives them just about the only real charisma in the seedy well paid , well heeled , loser pen . |
| 22 | It gives them just about the only real charisma in the seedy well paid , well heeled , loser pen . |
| 23 | That was just about the only redeeming feature of that winter because it formed a kind of bridge which made walking up to the road a lot easier . |
| 24 | Just about the only humble occupation which derived from having the ability to read and write was that of teaching it to working-class children , and at that level school teaching was often the resort of widows , cripples and those generally unable to find better-paid work . |
| 25 | The distinctive deep chin cowling , a feature of the PR.XI , along with the enlarged oil tank beneath has been retained in this faithful rebuild and just about the only non-authentic concession made in the rebuild has been the fitting of a standard armour plated framed windscreen instead of the one piece wrap-around frameless example , the latter giving the pilot a somewhat distorted view from the cockpit . |
| 26 | To make a pattern for a swag , cut a width(s) of mull to equal the length of the front of the board , by approximately twice the proposed finished depth . |
| 27 | In 1964 he became secretary-general of the National Liberation Front — the political arm of the Viet Cong — and thus officially the top communist leader in southern Vietnam , although more power was held by senior leaders from the north . |
| 28 | Although it 's not yet certain exactly where the British armoured forces will be deployed , the four landing ships are expected to join up with the twelve-strong Royal Navy patrol in the Gulf of Amman . |
| 29 | Shortly afterwards the Chinese communist press issued a statement supporting the views expressed by the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | Obviously this linguistic phenomenon is connected with more general matters , most noticeably the sexual double standard . |