Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Piss ’ is one of several four-letter words less acceptable today than it has been in the past . |
| 2 | Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | The wider question is not whether the summary falls apart because the staples are not strong enough , but whether it falls apart because it is not sufficiently objective simply because it has been commissioned , paid for and its contents finally determined by the promoter of the original Bill , now working in co-operation with the Government . |
| 4 | The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously . |
| 5 | This was not because of the enemy fire , which was less frequent now than it had ever been , for evidently the sepoys had decided to bide their time until the end of the rains . |
| 6 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 7 | He seemed familiar , so familiar indeed that it took time to sink in . |
| 8 | On some days the smoke is so thick here that it obscures the sun . |
| 9 | The notion that it is extremely relevant precisely because it does none of these things seems to go unappreciated in official circles . |
| 10 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 11 | But make sure the sheeting is easily detachable so that it does not prevent you getting through the window in case of fire . |
| 12 | No it does , no , just circumstantial though but it does happen . |
| 13 | The pleonasm can be cured by making the dependent item more specific so that it makes a net semantic contribution to the phrase : my patriarchal uncle ( notice that adding specificity to the head has no effect : ? my male maternal uncle ) . |
| 14 | However , the Marxist position is no more verifiable even if it constitutes a more rounded explanation . |
| 15 | Matters get more complicated still when it becomes evident that a group of students may well be inventing them both as an assignment for a creative writing course , until the students admit that they too are ‘ a pack of lies dreamt up by the unreliable narrator in love with the zeroist author in love with himself but absent in the nature of things , an etherised unauthorised other ’ ( 155/733 ) . |
| 16 | The falsificationist must now try to make his hypothesis more precise so that it becomes more readily falsifiable . |
| 17 | ‘ The police service is arguably more efficient now than it has ever been . |
| 18 | Hardly surprising really considering it feels not dissimilar from a hunk of exceedingly dead meat ! |
| 19 | The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago . |
| 20 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 21 | Hence , a political economy of the urban is scarcely more plausible now than it has ever been in the past . |
| 22 | Her mocking laughter sounded as clear now as it had done months earlier . |
| 23 | Yet it was as impossible now as it had always been , and she groaned . |
| 24 | ‘ Indeed the working relationship between the two is as good now as it has ever been . ’ |
| 25 | The purpose of the vast megalithic constructions , for example , remains almost as mysterious now as it did in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 27 | The Histories is particularly relevant today because it represents the common discursive origin of historiography , sociology , anthropology , ethnography , and prose fiction . |
| 28 | It is worth emphasising again the ‘ dark ’ statistics of unreported crime , which is particularly relevant here where it has been estimated that 70 per cent of computer crime is unreported , because of the fear of loss of public confidence in the financial institutions concerned . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 30 | He had rendered her almost mindless there and it had all been a cheap trick , not even part of his wish to get her to accept her father . |