Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] an [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Thus it becomes clearer why the Law Society is anxious to distinguish between professional services and business , to promote so vigorously an altruistic conception of the lawyer/client relationship .
2 Upon looking up , we discovered the Indians passing along the side of the cliff , where we thought a goat could not pass , much less an entire tribe of Indians , with all their impediments .
3 For many , their own loyalty to a particular nation is so much an unspoken element of personal identity ( as opposed to the public world of politics ) that it is impossible to discuss ; nationalism is only what foreigners believe in .
4 not so much an interlocking economy of producing and consuming enterprises but a community of subjects who produce and consume in order to produce … .
5 From their results they argue that this is not so much an objective assessment of the functioning of their personal networks , but a judgment based on the ‘ intrapsychic needs of the respondent , in terms of ‘ dependency ’ or anxious attachment' ( Henderson , 1982 ) .
6 Technology is so pervasive , so much an intrinsic part of modern life , that we tend to take it for granted .
7 This discreteness is due to the need to fit a whole number of half wavelengths along the length of the string , for which there is obviously only an enumerable number of possibilities .
8 Making a better product is naturally still an important element of marketing today and is forcefully demonstrated by the Japanese consumer goods manufacturers .
9 The Pistols ' spokesperson told NME : ‘ Glen was only ever an outside contender for bass player in the re-formed line up . ’
10 Perhaps always an alarming noise for a man trapped in a small space .
11 It was perhaps originally an oral message from Cnut , committed to writing by an ecclesiastic for circulation to the shire courts , and then redrafted into its present state by Wulfstan .
12 While a given social system probably has a finite set of religious requirements under given conditions , these can be satisfied in many and perhaps even an infinite variety of ways .
13 I 'm normally quite an equable sort of guy , you know . ’
14 Such structures are generally therefore an integral part of the domestic and workshop accommodation available in all the small towns .
15 For unemployed people the free time becomes rather like an empty desert with very , very few oases , and one of the results of our research was to find that , well first of all that unemployed people tend to describe their time in very negative ways , as being empty , as having nothing to do , little activity and so on in it .
16 Another way of stating this point would be to say that the revival and growth of social movements in those societies which are both economically advanced and have a fairly long tradition of democracy , is a major aspect of that ‘ self-production ’ of society referred to earlier , which exists in some degree already , but is still more an ideal representation of a future form of society , ‘ free of domination ’ , in which the collectivity would really govern itself , by procedures of rational discussion among equal citizens .
17 The aim appears to have been two-fold : to reassert the authority of the crown to appoint to military commands and , by a ruthless dismissal of the majority of commanders who had come to assume such commands , to make the army once more an efficient weapon of state in royal hands .
18 But once more an effective mechanism for translating the conviction into practice was thwarted by the British government s tenderness for West Indian constitutional susceptibilities .
19 The parliamentary party was once more an effective opposition under the continued leadership of Clement Attlee , but with no prospect of reaching power for at least another five years .
20 The centre ground of British politics is once more an open arena for two-party competition .
21 Once again an immense amount of credit had been earned by Alec Stewart .
22 Average milk yields nationally have increased by more than 1,000kg in the last 25 years as the result of a very high usage of artificial insemination and milk recording nationwide , and more recently an increasing interest in embryo transfer as well .
23 In the past , when houses were accepted as payment for death duties , the selection of the contents acquired with them tended to be made mainly on a museum-oriented scale of value , concentrating predominantly on items that were not only of high quality , but also usually an integral part of the design of a room .
24 In October 1975 OSHA recommended a further lowering of exposure levels while at the end of 1976 the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH ) recommended a further lowering of the standard to the lower limit of detection by optical microscopy — 100.000 asbestos fibre per cubic metre — though NIOSH admitted that even at that level of exposure there is probably still an increased risk of cancer .
25 Apart from some of the actual buildings , little remains in the way of water wheels and machinery , to remind us of what was clearly once an important chain of mills which played an important role in the development of Cheltenham .
26 There is clearly now an urgent need for a Historic Stations Trust to remove those treasures that remain beyond the reach of the hammers of the destroyers , both official and unofficial , so that at least part of this precious heritage may be handed down to future generations .
27 Entry , in particular , brings a force of discipline to bear upon existing firms , and is also frequently an important source of the new ideas which promote dynamism in industries .
28 Here he is , h h he has the very unpleasant duty of explaining and justifying the drafting of this measure a a and I do hope it would be , it would be really rather an unexpected realisation of an ambition , but nevertheless one hopes eternal if my Noble Friend were to get up and say that as a result these few remarks that I have been tempted to make that some kind of effort is going to be made to tidy up as th th the processes whereby er such stuff appears , is allowed to appear on the pages of the Statute Book er er I do recall that when the Charities Bill was going through several committees , my Noble Friend was n't who who was d d dealing with the Bill in , on behalf of the Government was exceedingly helpful and I hope that he will show the same degree of goodwill today er and , and , and er h if he 's very clear and devote is very considerable energies to persuading those professional obs obfuscators who are responsible for this kind of garbage to do better in the future .
29 The links between each step of the searching process are just as much an integral part of the search as the individual steps .
30 Easter Island , where the traverse starts , is entirely volcanic but it is really only an insignificant scrap of land in the vast Pacific .
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