Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open Systems World , to be written by Digital Review 's old staff , is apparently picking up some of System Integration 's circulation and advertisers — but for a book that 's supposed to debut in October , as space sales types say they have n't seen hide nor hair of its space reps on the street . |
| 2 | Plastic only takes up one-fifth of landfill space generally in western Europe , a figure that reduces to approximately 12 to 15 per cent when the waste is crushed . |
| 3 | But Thompson did not wonder whether his physics might be incomplete , if they conflicted with accepted geology , and the geologists merely went ahead irrespective of physics . |
| 4 | ‘ You should not speak too bluntly of forgery , my dear fellow , ’ said Mr Singleton , delicately imbibing more whisky . |
| 5 | This has not remained altogether true of rock , which to some extent has developed more individual formal patterns , especially in progressive rock . |
| 6 | You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size . |
| 7 | It was , after all , so long ago , and had anything ever happened there worthy of remembrance ? |
| 8 | This is usually taken as indicative of contamination as either suspended or soluble matter . |
| 9 | Though petroleum still makes up four-fifths of export earnings , he has made the country less dependent on oil . |
| 10 | Thinking back , Coleman often wonders how many of Hurley 's confidential informants in Lebanon were , in fact , paid with funny money . |
| 11 | If a woman feels inspired by us , she can become our friend , but this is a particular problem for fat lesbians who can have any number of intense , close relationships which inevitably stop just short of sex . |
| 12 | I believe that a Christian 's position on this matter recognises the necessity for state action but goes on to argue that much of education , health and other welfare services could be quite adequately provided through the private sector , with the result that people would be free to exercise greater freedom of choice and also exercise greater responsibility over their lives . |
| 13 | You ca n't expect too much of music . |
| 14 | I mean , if you 've got a function you have n't got that much of bar trade |
| 15 | the nationalists do n't have so much of hold now over the south . |
| 16 | Akram then edged just short of slip , and clearly a stiff examination was being set out there by Malcolm , to whom the first comeback wicket had been ‘ like a drink of water to a thirsty man ’ . |