Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pron] [vb mod] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was standing with his back to the fire , thinking how much less pleasant it would be in some seaside hotel or boarding house in the off-season . |
| 2 | It was only after I had mentioned Miss Kenton that I suddenly realized how entirely inappropriate it would be for me to continue . |
| 3 | The authors speculate that this may be because , with a centralised collective bargaining system which is fairly remote from the workers , ‘ the less conscious they will be of the gains achieved , and hence the less likely they are to be credited to union activity ’ ( p. 109 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ What makes you so sure they 'll be on this ferry , anyway ? ’ |
| 5 | Although there will be little difference between what they cost new , a car registered in January 1992 is going to be more attractive to buyers than one which went on the road in December 1991 , so second-hand it will be worth about £200-£300 more . |
| 6 | It 's said they were so close she 'd be after coming over when he disappeared . |
| 7 | I was just glad I could be of help . ’ |
| 8 | Anyway , the bigger the audience the more likely I can be in charge . |
| 9 | Nobody exactly dominated England 's middle order , so I 'm still confident he 'll be on the plane to India , and I would like to think that Nick Speak , Graham Lloyd and Peter Martin will be on the ‘ A ’ tour . |
| 10 | The more familiar you are with it , the more confident you will be about using it . |
| 11 | On the political side , Taiwanese worry that the more money they invest in China , the more vulnerable they will be to manipulation by the Chinese government . |
| 12 | The stronger , more definite and consistent it is , the more important it will be as a symptom of the case . |
| 13 | The more this principle is understood and the more firmly it is adhered to , whether in practical or in theoretical subjects , the more difficult it will be for a school to organize its teaching . |
| 14 | The more a government squawks about ‘ individual freedoms ’ , ‘ non-intervention by the state ’ , ‘ private enterprise ’ , and the other great rallying calls of capital , the more certain one can be of the total control by that state of its citizens . |
| 15 | The longer we delay the worse it will become and the more expensive it will be to the nation at large . ’ |
| 16 | It may be argued that the longer people search for jobs , the more satisfied they will be with their eventual choices . |
| 17 | Think how much more appreciative he will be of your place within it when you are suitably arrayed to complement him . ’ |
| 18 | Above are Steve Restarick ( left ) and Wayne Hannigan , both ex-Wivenhoe who should be in action for Chelmsford while Christian McClean ( below , left ) has moved in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | If the news was really unexpected she would be off balance and it is at such times that people are most likely to speak the truth . |
| 20 | BORINGLY familiar it may be as a measure the rise in the price of cigarettes in the latest budget gives me open , honest pleasure , though its smallness causes me disappointment . |
| 21 | Well unacceptable it may be in your present state of mind , but |
| 22 | Whatever other reasons may have existed — and however unpleasant it may be to be reminded of it — this is the same reason used in Germany in the 1930s . |
| 23 | Whatever our misgivings about the story 's historicity ( and we make a grave and fundamental error if we think the value of a passage like this is measured by the extent of its historicity ) , and however confident we might be about its origins , it asks and surely deserves to be taken on the storyteller 's own terms . |
| 24 | It is there , and it will not go away , however hard the authors of the Gospels have tried to disguise it — and however embarrassing it may be for later Christian tradition . |
| 25 | The ability of the politician to provide patronage , of whatever nature , was never more than a tool of management , and however useful it might be to the man who could supply it , patronage in itself did not remove the need for active and continuous management of the voters included within the interest . |
| 26 | The fact is we remain an island power and can not ignore the sea however close we may be to the Continent . |
| 27 | This especially applies to steep banks , where , if the rise is too high it will be like climbing a ladder . |
| 28 | ‘ I was thinking how very unpleasant it must be to be shot . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ How very predictable you can be at times . ’ |
| 30 | If the job is very important it may be worth the cost of sending some one whose work you know well to cover the assignment . |