Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally true to say that if the area is predominantly rural then the geographical extent of the restriction can sometimes be greater than if an urban area is under consideration . |
| 2 | But the point is what we 're being told is effectively that only the rich can have second marriages , that 's what this Child Support Act brings about . |
| 3 | Later , courses and social events help new parents cope with what can be the most exciting yet the most frightening time in most couple 's lives . |
| 4 | In the case of those groups which are less advanced today the process will take longer , but that is all the difference . ' |
| 5 | So sorry just a moment . |
| 6 | The latter , which seemed so strange even a few years ago , is now available as a result of our understanding of sign languages and of the developments in foreign spoken language learning . |
| 7 | So you 're working out what your fractions are so forty over a hundred is four times ten lots of four over ten lots of ten . |
| 8 | Just seems so unrealistic though a kid would actually do that . |
| 9 | It was so different even the weir had been removed which means the river at this point is some three feet shallower than when I last fished it . |
| 10 | Like so much else the Romans had established , they and the villas were left to decay and collapse . |
| 11 | In religion as in so much else the daily life of the South Saxons was conducted over several centuries by word of mouth and the group memory rather than by letter and record . |
| 12 | But the magistrates said French had flouted the court order and his record — of sixty five convictions for animal cruelty — was so serious only a prison sentence was appropriate . |
| 13 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 14 | One key issue back in November the Skelton and Brotton Hospital will not be so prominent now the Northern Regional Health Authority has confirmed the site . |
| 15 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 16 | As social engineering is highly suspect then the only way that the HIDB can be accepted is through an economic development programme . |
| 17 | It is so easy to forget to pay those regular bills such as the rates and mortgage , and even more so those once a year commitments like club subscriptions and insurance premiums . |
| 18 | Technology has permitted firms to link together more closely the three basic means of serving foreign markets — exporting , local production and licensing — within more complex ‘ internal ’ markets . |
| 19 | Beep in the ear is so important just a second ago , because if we had this on , busy on the phone , and the next caller comes through , because it was my phone , those calls would go through to Hilary , so I would n't get a beep in the ear would I ? |
| 20 | It looks to my lay eye extremely impressive yet the eerie fact remains that it engages missiles when they are only 2 or 3 seconds away from hitting a ship . |
| 21 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 22 | Dickinson said : ‘ I knew a pilot who had cold feet one minute and was extremely hot indeed the next . ’ |
| 23 | The Central Market clinic was only open twice a week and , in common with the entire public health service , medicines were almost non-existent . |
| 24 | McLuhan was enormously popular and apparently influential only a few years ago , since when it has been commonplace to pick out many of the absurdities and contradictions of his thought . |
| 25 | ‘ The world is crumbling around me , Wilson , ’ she said , the words so faint only a finely attuned ear could have heard them . |
| 26 | How much greater then the difficulty of conveying the mystery in words , and to an age reluctant to contemplate those experiences where the pathos of our animal nature stands in greatest tension with the highest aspirations of the soul ! |
| 27 | Even if she said so herself , she was barely recognisable as the young woman who 'd been so distraught just a short while ago . |
| 28 | Paradoxically it was not quite so bad now the invaders had arrived . |
| 29 | More widely within society , it is argued , competitive individualism challenges collectivism ; the provision of services through the state is abandoned in favour of privatization so expanding again the sphere of potential profit-making . |
| 30 | ‘ Just that sometimes the truth is far harder to admit to than lies . ’ |