Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are particularly anxious to bring the courts back into use for the 1993 season , so we would be most grateful if the application could be dealt with as soon as possible . |
| 2 | When he thought about it , Nigel did find it a little odd that a photographer should return after he 'd finished a job . |
| 3 | It is wholly acceptable that the patient should have been persuaded by others of the merits of such a decision and have decided accordingly . |
| 4 | The silence was so total that the auditorium might have been empty . |
| 5 | Also , this form of search is only possible when the searcher can generate and then retract states , or store several states simultaneously , so it is not suitable with irreversible operators . |
| 6 | That is only possible where the signer can establish ( a ) that he/she signed the document without negligence and ( b ) that he/she mistakenly thought he/she was signing a document of a fundamentally different type from that actually signed ( Saunders v Anglia BS [ 1971 ] AC 1004 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 8 | Will there come a time when that might become so acute that the Minister would be prepared to consider an opt-out as opposed to an opt-in donor system ? |
| 9 | It is also entirely possible that the public may be less exercised about this matter than are newspapers , and perhaps less hostile to the notion of regulation . |
| 10 | The resulting map ( figure 12.1 ) plots the relationship between these dimensions although the overall discrimination was so weak that the judgment could be considered as undifferentiated . |
| 11 | Not only that but the receptionist may control access to individuals within the organisation and hence play an important role as ‘ gatekeeper ’ to the organisation . |
| 12 | In the past , it was not even entirely clear whether the tariff should properly be constructed solely on the basis of the seriousness of the current offence , as the Court of Appeal insisted in the case of R . |
| 13 | After the 1979 Conservative victory , it is less clear that a party will suffer if it advocates policies which are a clear break with the past . |
| 14 | But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail . |
| 15 | Eventually she convinces the caller that the timing is somewhat inconvenient as the square will be fully occupied by the parade ; a revised time is agreed and another crisis is averted . |
| 16 | The words ‘ reasonably satisfied ’ and ‘ substantially fewer ’ are selected deliberately ; for the alternative is so grave that the choice ought not to be made on only a narrow margin of evidence or probability . |
| 17 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 18 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | I think the cut-out must have no plant form then , it should be earthy or an old withered tree trunk or some such — because the dancers personify Spring so much that the stage should represent the earth . |
| 20 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 21 | This was Cultra , where an introduction was de rigueur before so much as a cocktail could be taken . |
| 22 | In fact it 's not that the memory is lost , so much as the person ca n't get out the facts which are stored in the memory . |
| 23 | That claim could be so serious that the seller would far prefer that the transaction did not proceed . |
| 24 | Probably the most effective means is to find a task which is sufficiently simple that the patient can carry it out and thereby begin to experience success . |
| 25 | The world of parliamentary publications in Britain is a daunting one for the beginning researcher , but the range of information available from governmental and quasi-governmental sources is so vast that no researcher dare ignore it . |
| 26 | In Peru distances are so vast and the terrain can be so formidable that aeroplanes are not a luxury , but often the only shakily effective means of passing between desert , mountain and jungle . |
| 27 | She makes painting an oil look so easy that the student will automatically start believing he will be capable of the same . |
| 28 | The species is presumed to be so homogeneous that every individual can be treated as the equivalent of every other . |
| 29 | The sky was so clear and the stars so visible that the earth could almost be seen turning . |
| 30 | It is questionable whether it can become an agent to promote social work but is position is so central than an attempt must be made . |