Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither do I think it altogether heretical to wonder whether some diseases attributed to evil spirits may not have been forms of mental illness . |
| 2 | Moreover , this distinctive structural location has been remarkably resilient to change and it is commonly argued that schooling plays a big part in the reproduction over time of the position of black people in British society . |
| 3 | It does seem rather odd to say that death is for the good of the person involved . |
| 4 | In retrospect , it is now rather easier to see that the cases made for the identification of structural change at the beginning of the 1970s were exaggerated or , at least , rather premature . |
| 5 | Wet wood is rather easier to bend than dry but the principal agent for bending wood is heat . |
| 6 | Now , of course , we got problems now where they 've all been abolished and is virtually on a voluntary basis , and I say , it 'll be rather interesting to see whether Lamont actually is going to release some more money , cos you probably realise at the moment they 're cutting back on that particular budget . |
| 7 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 8 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 9 | Places are a little easier to describe than people . |
| 10 | I am aware of cases in my constituency — of course they are rare — where the investigating authorities have gone into matters extremely carefully and at great length while being most careful to ensure that there is no publicity that would be likely to lead to prejudice one way or the other . |
| 11 | It is wholly wrong to suggest that it is the European Community alone which has difficulties with the agriculture dossier . |
| 12 | This reader , for one , would be jolly interested to know whether Georges Simenon had an alibi for the rest of that night in 1922 . |
| 13 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 14 | It would be most interesting to know if you can think of other potential members — our seminars have in the last year or two proved popular and have been extraordinarily cost effective . |
| 15 | I think it only right to comment that the fact that it is , in a case such as the present , open to a taxpayer to stipulate , if he wishes , that the money shall be repaid if it is found not to be due in pending proceedings , provides another practical reason why a case such as the present is likely to occur only in very rare circumstances indeed . |
| 16 | Now I 'm against that and I 'm therefore against I regret to say what the Noble Lord , Lord said , and I 'm extremely sorry to see that he has moved on this particular matter er because th there is no case , that has been really made out for this . |
| 17 | However , it is not entirely facetious to say that there is a correlation between a driver 's haircut and his performance . |
| 18 | It is perhaps possible to say that a particular child tends towards introversion and , further , that he or she is therefore more likely to engage with characters such as Tom in Philippa Pearce 's Tom 's midnight garden , Max in Pauline Clarke 's The twelve and the genii , or Tolly in Lucy Boston 's Green Knowe stories , than a more extrovert reader . |
| 19 | By Ottoman reckoning Molla Fenari would have been twenty in Safar 770 , and it is perhaps possible to suppose that he could have returned from Egypt in time to be appointed at the end of the year . |
| 20 | This makes the format much friendlier to use than a desktop computer and keyboard . |
| 21 | They want to hang on to their fat subsidies and America is entirely right to say that this is unacceptable . |
| 22 | It seemed so odd to think that they did n't know . |
| 23 | Not only are they very much simpler to weed and maintain , but if you have a back problem they are easier to reach than if they are closer to the ground . |
| 24 | Well , it 's only polite to say whether if you |
| 25 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 26 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 27 | At present it is only possible to guess that the largest of the villas , such as Woodchester , Bignor and North Leigh may have been owner occupied . |
| 28 | While Porter is obviously right to argue that there is no economic reason for completely separable SBUs to be combined , it does not follow that they would function any better by becoming completely independent . |
| 29 | It was so strange to meet and talk to them in the flesh . |
| 30 | It is entirely possible to think that if ‘ literary ’ and ‘ aesthetic ’ are words that go naturally with ‘ American ’ but not with ‘ English ’ , so much the worse for the English . |