Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned so much and soon caught up with the fleet ’ . |
| 2 | ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . ) |
| 3 | The writing of the book was hardly more than half-way done , but did it need to be done here , ferchrissake ? |
| 4 | A better approach merely underlines what was said above , that the regress shows that if all justification is inferential , no belief is ever more than conditionally justified . |
| 5 | Of course , many policy statements are little more than vaguely embodied aspirations as to how parties would like to see Britain develop . |
| 6 | The UK 's reserves of lowland peat bogs are far less than previously thought , according to a new survey by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee ( JNCC ) — the scientific umbrella group for the government 's three national conservation agencies in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 7 | Satellite studies of the Amazon rainforest by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) show that the area being felled each year is far less than previously estimated . |
| 8 | In interviews with a number of panel members filling various roles in the project , and including members of the coordinating committee , it was generally acknowledged that the panel was often less than well chaired , with a fairly universal feeling that it lacked direction and a clear sense of purpose . |
| 9 | I knew I would eat too much and mentally planned to restrict myself at lunch , which would be equally difficult . |
| 10 | The various provinces of Russia were too many and too mixed to allow of any division into two or a few camps , irrespective of whether socio-economic conditions , nationality , religion , or politics are concerned . |