Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then we get through customs , and the two of us are having a laugh because we 're safely back , and suddenly this drunk in a chauffeur 's cap throws himself at us and nearly puts out my eye with a cardboard sign and treads on my foot into the bargain . |
| 2 | Campbell was aware of the disadvantages of having so few Sinhalese in the police , especially in higher posts . |
| 3 | Boraston was so much involved in war work that his assistant . |
| 4 | I have n't been so much involved in it as perhaps some other people and I do n't pretend to be an expert . |
| 5 | He used to be fond of quoting this rhyme : There is so much bad in the best of us And so much good in the worst of us , That it ill becomes the rest of us , To think evil of any one of us . |
| 6 | He used to be fond of quoting this rhyme : There is so much bad in the best of us And so much good in the worst of us , That it ill becomes the rest of us , To think evil of any one of us . |
| 7 | Yeah , you see , now so much got in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us , , speak ill of the rest of us Ha I 've just finished reading the er , whole text of Rudyard Kipling 's . |
| 8 | Gaver is not so much interested in musical instruments or laboratory oscillators as in whistling wind , splashing water and hurrying footsteps . |
| 9 | ‘ I did a lot of research into what the characters were like , I was n't so much interested in the facts of the case of the dates and specifics , but , I actually got to know Susan Atkins pretty well , one of the Family members who is now in prison . |
| 10 | But while he was interested in giving as complete an idea as possible of the nature of his subjects , he was not so much interested in the formal , sculptural properties of individual objects as in their relationships to each other and to the space surrounding them . |
| 11 | They were not so much interested in damage assessment . |
| 12 | It meant fixing on the smiles for the photographers … who were not so much interested in the intricacies of skating as Christopher Dean 's private life recently under scrutiny in the tabloid press . |
| 13 | The distinction between recall and recognition is clearly an important one , in that the human memory is so much superior in the latter function . |
| 14 | Hence in late nineteenth-century France the aged were already a more prominent group , almost twice the proportion in England at the same time : indeed , there were proportionally somewhat fewer old in booming Victorian England than in 1700 . |
| 15 | There are so many sick in the village , February is a wicked month , and it seems to take me all my time to get round the cottages and then when I am back , I am extremely tired and I fear I 'm not as patient as I should be , poor little creatures and the baby still in his petticoats . |
| 16 | It was still empty and she wandered at will around the main hall , seeing only those involved in administration moving about . |
| 17 | The GHS is a survey which considers only those resident in the community , ; residents of institutions are excluded . |
| 18 | Some studies include only those resident in the community while others also include the institutionalized population . |
| 19 | Mr Ceausescu may have become somewhat more dictatorial in the past decade , but it is not a qualitative change . |
| 20 | We will increase investment substantially in schemes such as SMART to encourage innovation in industry , particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises , especially those involved in manufacturing . |
| 21 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
| 22 | The cAMP-receptor protein , CRP , controls the initiation of transcription of numerous genes [ 3,4 ] , especially those involved in carbon source utilisation . |
| 23 | Many business people are away from their office base for much of the working day , especially those involved in sales and marketing . |
| 24 | Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations . |
| 25 | Aspects of these various models have been challenged more recently by historians , especially those interested in family reconstitution . |
| 26 | The plates , therefore , though clearly not quite right in colour , are not that noticeable in normal viewing . |
| 27 | I just had to tend to him when it got too much for someone who is not that involved in drugs . |
| 28 | He was the justification for the war , particularly in the eyes of neighbouring princes whose intervention might have been decisive but who were understandably not that involved in the quarrel over the succession to Angoulême . |
| 29 | There is no point at all in my talking to those people , except on a preliminary basis ; they 're not that interested in my views . |
| 30 | The Minister must realise that the public are not that interested in boring details about procedures — for example , about whether a public utility is supposed to take a maximum of two weeks or three weeks to reply to a letter of complaint . |