Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Pitching inner and fly together can be a time saver , but obviously the inner must be detached from the fly if you need to split the weight for backpacking .
2 It 's still gon na take six times eight , but this time the six is the hours so the eight will be women .
3 Power and reward are distributed unequally in most societies , and so the privileged will be much freer .
4 So the fourteenth will be a Sunday .
5 So the fifteenth will be a Monday .
6 I heard , ‘ Well , the pennies are going down 9 , 8 , 7 so the next will be 6 .
7 The next column is going up 1 , 3 , 5 so the next will be 7 and the £s are going up in ones .
8 Much the same might be said of David Capel , another member of that 1990 Caribbean party to have fallen on hard times .
9 Much the same might be said of the keyboard repertory , particularly in Germany .
10 Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people .
11 Much the same could be said of Singapore .
12 Much the same could be said of Atlas of Ore Minerals except that the impact is reduced by the smaller and very slightly less well reproduced pictures ( of polished sections here ) .
13 Yet despite a modulatory and harmonic palette occasionally redolent of mid-Classicism , his employment of formal procedures unmistakably harks back to the bygone era ( much the same could be said of Mozart 's church music ) .
14 Much the same could be said , though not as strongly , of GKR where one of the remaining founders , David Kay , is attracting most of the business and defines the overall style of the firm .
15 Mind you , I expect much the same could be said about my second-year essays if I 'm absolutely honest .
16 Much the same could be said of academic journals , for example , in which the development of a particular format contributes to the authority of any one article .
17 Much the same can be said about sentence parsing .
18 The classic instance concerns a Swedish hoard of the eighteenth century from Lohe , the examination of which led to the establishment of the principle ( fig. 28 ) , but much the same can be done for other well-documented periods such as seventeenth-century England .
19 Much the same can be said of Ayer 's treatment of existence .
20 Much the same can be said of any reason for action .
21 Much the same can be said for the group of surnames representing the former holding of offices , which includes such obvious examples as Butler , Chamberlain , Reeve , Beadle , Granger and Steward , but some are less obvious because time has dimmed both the memory of the office concerned and distorted the spelling of the name : Grieve = a farm steward ; Gayler = a gaoler ; Bailey = a bailiff or sergeant ; Spencer = a dispenser of provisions ; Tunnard = guardian of the village ( tūn ) pound ; Senskell = a majordomo ( seneschal ) ; Wardrop = a wardrober .
22 Much the same can be said of the third issue , of free trade vs protectionism .
23 Much the same can be said of the widespread use of ‘ suggestion schemes ’ , which although not compulsory are so widespread that employees feel obliged to participate in them .
24 Much the same can be said for the use of the ‘ grid ’ in countless high-modernist abstract paintings by Mondrian , Reinhardt , and many others .
25 Much the same can be said for Lichtenstein 's comic-strip pop art or Alex Cox 's use of Lichtenstein-type devices in his film Repo Man .
26 But if Marxist thinkers have not , on the whole , contributed very profoundly to the study of nationalism , much the same can be said of other major sociologists .
27 Much the same can be said , concerning the importance of economic development , about those middle-to high-income developing countries which are in the lower ranges of the income scale ; but some countries in this category face rather different problems .
28 Much the same can be said of the mosaics from Withington and Newton St. Loe , although here other contrasts are also conspicuous .
29 Much the same can be said about constitutionally significant statute law , judicial decisions , and works of authority in the United States .
30 Although there were some routine matters , such as the issue of legal writs , where it could act on its own initiative , for any matter of permanent importance it needed a warrant for its action from the Privy Seal or the Signet : usually only the former would be sufficient .
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