Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounds a little odd described in this way . |
| 2 | It restricts the mobility of workers and so keeps unemployment higher than it need be : people who own their homes are less willing to move to another area to find a job . |
| 3 | They realize that they have problems and but they seem so willing to stand by each other and the the spirit which I 've noticed is very h |
| 4 | I think perhaps this applies to all children , adopted or home-grown . |
| 5 | It is now much easier to travel in these areas , but collecting wild cocoa and other species of the rainforest has suddenly become very urgent . |
| 6 | Black Michael looked blacker than ever today — because you and the Princess had so much to say to each other . ’ |
| 7 | It 's not so easy to come by these days though . |
| 8 | But Conservative MPs are much less easy to classify , they have fewer dogmatic positions to maintain and their criticisms of their own party 's policies are therefore much less easy to dismiss in this way . |
| 9 | The fact that he found it less easy to talk about such things to a young girl did not mean he was less impassioned than she was . |
| 10 | Quite simply , when monkeys had been infected with one strain of yellow fever virus , they became transiently less easy to infect with another strain . |
| 11 | It is perhaps instructive to look in some detail at one accident report to see if the question as to why it happened was answered as well as the question of what happened . |
| 12 | The speaker is less likely to gulp for more air in mid-sentence . |
| 13 | Recognising that some form of help is required by these fish as they are invariably suffering from stress , damaged fins and shock brought about by different water conditions , and not wanting to use anything alien to their systems , I felt that herbs would be gentler and less likely to result in any problems with breeding the fish later . |
| 14 | Everyday experience tells us that a flavour mixed with some other will be perceived differently from that flavour presented on its own , but a click and a light ( perhaps because they come from different modalities ) are less likely to interact in this way . |
| 15 | Elderly couple households fare much the same as all households , but elderly persons living alone are much less likely to benefit from such goods . |
| 16 | With the possible exception of Jeanette Winterson and Jackie Collins , I can think of no two women less likely to benefit from each other 's company than these two , and I foresee fireworks . |
| 17 | It is becoming less useful to enter into each other 's feelings , more and more convenient to consult one 's pocket computer . |
| 18 | And that would give the local radio interviewer a very good in , because it would be much better to start with some comment along that lines which would |
| 19 | The truss rod nut would also be extremely awkward to adjust in any kind of a hurry , but considering some players ' sketchy ideas of how a truss rod works , perhaps that 's no bad thing . |
| 20 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 21 | Yes I mean it 's obviously better to work in both places |
| 22 | In this instance , however , it was especially important to measure in some detail the tasks undertaken at field level . |
| 23 | Instead there are carefully constructed individual development programmes incorporating standard elements , but always sufficiently flexible to adjust to each individual 's particular development needs and to build sound business and commercial skills . |
| 24 | Ed : In the space available , G. B. Carter was only able to touch on some aspects of CBDE 's work . |
| 25 | If Marie had n't been so desperate to escape from that room , she would n't have suggested taking Bella out in her wheelchair . |
| 26 | The RCO held a conference to investigate why it is proving so difficult to recruit in this area . |
| 27 | For instance , after completing some lower order questions about individual features in a Victorian gaol , pupils were asked to synthesise this information : " Explain why it is so difficult to escape from this prison . " |
| 28 | The most diligent student of the region 's past will find it extremely difficult to fix upon any period in earlier times in which the condition of the people can be seen as more attractive than the point reached by the early 1960s . |
| 29 | In fact , these provisions were largely ineffective since it proved extremely difficult to determine with any certainty which properties had increased in value as a result of a scheme ( or of works carried out under a scheme ) or , where there was a reasonable degree of certainty , how much of the increase in value was directly attributable to the scheme and how much to other factors . |
| 30 | I know it must sound terribly irresponsible to get into this position but , truthfully , it 's a case of of ‘ heart ruling head ’ . ’ |