Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have indicated in several other places in this book , the distinction which is frequently drawn between " primitive " societies , which have " elementary " structures and which exist outside history , and " advanced " societies , which have " complex " structures and are consciously involved in the processes of historical transformation , is much less clear-cut than has often been suggested . |
| 2 | The distinction does arise and it can not entirely be neglected but it is much less important than appears at first sight . |
| 3 | The hon. Lady should know that in the past 10 years exports of British manufactured goods have grown faster than those of France , Germany , America and even Japan , because manufacturing is doing so much better and needs our policies . |
| 4 | Lines down one or both edges of the paragraph are somewhat less overpowering than underlines , and carry a different meaning . |
| 5 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
| 6 | An electrical mechanism for long-distance signalling in plants may be much more general than has previously been recognized . |
| 7 | Those who have worked in the legal civil service report that it is much more interesting than appears at first sight . |
| 8 | Though this model has the same excellent Vibram sole as the S-SB3 L GTX , this does not confer the same walking characteristics as the boot is much more flexible and has much less lateral foot support . |
| 9 | In practice , the photographic process is usually much more complicated and involves separate runs with the red , green and blue separation positives ; that is , a minimum of six , to be multiplied in turn by the number of mattes ( if several rather than one are involved figures up in the thirties are not uncommon ) In practice also , matte lines may mark the joins too visibly . |
| 10 | The second approach , is much more strict and applies predominantly in employment cases . |
| 11 | The figs are widely scattered in the forests , however , so a troop ranges over much more ground than does one of brown capuchins . |
| 12 | The information was available in the summer and , as the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland said , it is his experience as a local Member of Parliament that the nuclear industry is much more open than has been alleged by the hon. Member for Moray . |
| 13 | K-ras codon 12 mutation , however , is much more common and seems to be related to size and degree of dysplasia . |
| 14 | The prediction of thermal history is somewhat more problematical and requires the modelling of basin evolution and heat flow . |
| 15 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 16 | Alternatively , this mutation might lead to production of a protein that is only partly functional and causes a milder disease . |
| 17 | Managers are not necessarily as transient as acts . |
| 18 | J T Scoulding in Hudsons Ward spoke of housing , ‘ the immediate necessity of which is only too apparent and has been continually kept in the front of the Labour Party 's demands on the West Ham Council ’ , education ‘ free from the elementary school to the university thus give our class equality of opportunity ’ , and municipal employment , ‘ the local authority being model employers and setting the standard for the rest of the community in respect to wages and conditions of employment ’ ( Election leaflets , 1919 ) . |
| 19 | I do n't really see that there 's such a dividing line , because I think if you 're a housewife and you have a beautiful milk jug , which is perhaps very simple but has lovely lines to it , I think even if it 's only subconsciously you get more pleasure out of using that than you would a rather cracked , grubby , plastic jug . |
| 20 | The Bill is much too little and comes much too late . |
| 21 | ‘ Amasha ’ : This presents with a stool which is generally not watery but contains mucus . |
| 22 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 23 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 24 | The design of the kite plays its part in determining the size of the flight envelope just as much as does wind strength . |
| 25 | just as effective and contains no hazardous ingredients . |
| 26 | ‘ In golf , customs of etiquette and decorum are just as important as rules governing play , ’ he wrote . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not just winning the fight , it 's how you do it , the style is just as important and wins you just as many points , ’ says Glenn . |
| 28 | A good deal of research carried out in Britain and elsewhere between the late 1940s and the present chiefly by industrial sociologists and psychologists , demonstrates fairly conclusively that a high proportion of people in their sixties and seventies can work effectively at their accustomed or preferred occupation , even when this is physically quite heavy or makes significant intellectual demands . |
| 29 | The company is wholly owned by the Royal Bank , has a staff of just over 90 and forms part of Branch Banking Division . |
| 30 | The stack plume is normally barely visible but appears more prominent at night , when lower ambient temperatures lead to increased condensation of the water vapour . |