Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 2 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 3 | At the extreme , some nuclear waste was so intensely radioactive that it had to be kept isolated from the human environment for thousands of years . |
| 4 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 5 | This proved to be so commercially successful that it became a reciprocal arrangement , with Mills and Boon importing Harlequin titles . |
| 6 | Hearse Arête is certainly worth a mention , being much less macabre than it sounds , simply the companion to Undertake 's Buttress ! |
| 7 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 8 | After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds . |
| 9 | The Council is obviously terribly happy that it 's got this new service running from nine a.m . |
| 10 | The test kit had a range of pH6 to 8 , but the reading of my existing tank was obviously below 6 as it went instantly yellow . |
| 11 | Instead , the whole coating would have to be repainted much sooner that if it had been touched up periodically ! |
| 12 | This is a relatively small volcano , and so easily accessible that it has even been suggested that a hotel should be built beneath it , to make an especially attractive night spot for jaded Guatemalans , but so far no one has risked the capital . |
| 13 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 14 | Professor Hurstfield has however inferred from the preamble that the government wanted something much more far-reaching than it got : nothing less than unlimited authority to legislate by proclamation . |
| 15 | The prospect of genetic intervention is much more appealing as it gets to the core of the problem . |
| 16 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | Although use of the IUD and condom has increased , especially among educated women , the rise of sterilization is much more important as it marks an almost certain end to childbearing ( table 4.3 ) . |
| 18 | Strapped on , the Teardrop is much more manageable although it does show a tendency towards neck heaviness . |
| 19 | This is much more difficult than it sounds , and requires a great deal of skill and practice ( see Mann 1985 ; Oppenheim 1966 ) . |
| 20 | Schoolteachers were not expected to engage in research , and by the 1870s this was anyway much more difficult than it had been in 1800 : there was more to master first , and more equipment was needed . |
| 21 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 22 | That is to say , scholars have assumed that around 1550 the English language became much more convergent than it had been before even though there can be no direct evidence that spoken English did become more convergent . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |
| 24 | I mean I get the impression that likes working for and myself and she likes her own sphere of influence right which is fair enough as far as it goes |
| 25 | Unfortunately , the Budget was so unbelievably boring that it had the opposite effect . |
| 26 | The region has many characteristics in common with Scotland , perhaps as many as it does with England . |
| 27 | In terms of Israeli-US relations , the issue was so potentially divisive that it had been largely ignored ; the issue never formally arose during the whole of US President Reagan 's eight years in office . |
| 28 | ‘ What 's the matter , Leonora ? ’ asked Penry , his voice so unusually gentle that it brought a sheen of tears to her eyes . |
| 29 | But in fact the whole fluffy , vapid confection is so resolutely unmemorable that it gives as much offence as a toothless poodle . |
| 30 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |