Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as knowledge becomes increasingly use-specific , its portability declines , perhaps so much so that by the time it is embodied in a specific new product it can only spill over to producers of very similar substitute products . |
| 2 | Macbeth and Lady Macbeth act much more happily together than in play |
| 3 | ‘ I dare anyone in the Fund to point to a country and say it is much better off economically today because of a Fund programme , ’ says Budhoo . |
| 4 | In Gloucestershire the average man in the vale , situated between the Cotswold Edge and the river Severn , was half as much again better off as in the Forest of Dean across the river ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 5 | Commenting on the acquisition which forms part of the Retail Cleaning division , Peter Lloyd said ‘ It 's good to see our portfolio growing so significantly both organically and through acquisition . |
| 6 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 7 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 8 | The Hong Kong economy performed poorly in the first half of 1990 , but not nearly as badly as in the second half of 1989 when it had suffered from the international reaction to the upheavals in China . |
| 9 | By mounting the diodes on diamond blocks , the heat generated at the base of the diode can be conducted away far more rapidly than by mounting it directly on a copper heat sink . |
| 10 | Not quite so confidently as in Stratford ; or in Oxford , of course , where he had memorised whole sentences from the Jan Morris guide . |
| 11 | If she is very apprehensive about how she is going to manage her role in society as a woman on her own , you could remind her of something she has probably completely forgotten : that she coped with life quite adequately as a single woman , before she met her husband , so there is no reason to suppose that she can not do so again , and possibly even better now because of the love they shared and her greater maturity . |
| 12 | ‘ Jazz exploded in London in the mid-Eighties , but only a handful of people got a deal out of it , ’ says Geoff , who got into hip hop via rare groove and whose CV includes organising CND and Artists Against Apartheid benefits , putting on jazz rap weekends to try and prove bands could carry it off live as well as on record , DJing at Camden 's Jazz Cafe and , until recently , booking the bands there too . |
| 13 | The grounds of Pound 's hostility show up much more respectably than in any of his slashing prose in a passage of verse that has seldom been remarked . |
| 14 | ‘ Realism and politics ’ ( or at least social issues ) came back almost as strongly as in the 1930s , in the work of writers who often dropped the baton of innovation like a hot potato , vehemently rejecting modernism and experiment . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ We have not played well enough either here or in India , and players are not guaranteed England places . |
| 16 | It had a six-inch barrel , but a solid cylinder underneath it almost as long so that from the business end it looked like an over-and-under shotgun with the lower barrel blocked off . |
| 17 | Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups . |