Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their model , though vastly simpler than the real atmosphere , mimics some of its important properties . |
| 2 | Waddell is most emphatic that the old man was neither blindfolded nor gagged . |
| 3 | This material was most durable and the powdered marble imparted a brilliance to the finished surface . |
| 4 | The trouble with writing about a still-extant commercial enterprise is that the text does tend to the rather uncritical and the whole thing can end up like an extended press release . |
| 5 | Says Renate Olins , director of the London Marriage Guidance Council , ‘ It 's entirely understandable that the innocent party is wracked with feelings of such vehemence and passion that she may not know what to do with them . ’ |
| 6 | I am glad that the hon. Gentleman and I agree that there should be a discount for single people — I am only sorry that the Labour party continues to insist that we should return to a rating system in which single people would have to pay through the nose , as they did before . |
| 7 | All pipes connections are concealed within the length to give a neat appearance , and the surface temperature is much lower than the average radiator , so it is safe to touch and needs no bulky enclosures . |
| 8 | Above all , it is far less retiring than the European race and often approaches human settlements in search of the rodents that are plentiful there . |
| 9 | The ride followed by Marian and Allen , although not so broad as the main Highway , was lighter because the trees that flanked it , being for the most part giant oaks , had quelled the subordinate vegetation and left airy vistas between their trunks . |
| 10 | Life expectancy is so low that the average life span of men just before we got here ( in the last quarter of the seventeenth century ) was 29.6 years . |
| 11 | The lintel is so low that the only man who can enter is the man who is down on his knees . |
| 12 | However , on rare occasions — perhaps twice before in recorded history — a change occurs so profound and so far-reaching that the entire orientation of society is altered completely in a relatively short period . |
| 13 | Business men find it especially odd that the Labour party intends to introduce a minimum wage with one hand while with the other hand it would remove our tax cuts for the lowest paid . |
| 14 | And the diagram is much simpler than the real neocortex , which contains 10,000 cells where only 25 are shown here . |
| 15 | It is extremely odd that the Labour party should propose that women should be barred from jobs because of their husband 's position in public life . |
| 16 | At breakfast time the general atmosphere among the residents was still subdued , but much less strained than the previous evening . |
| 17 | Daphne recommends mustard-yellow S ‘ Crown of Rays ’ , shorter and less rampant than the weed-like S. canadensis , for house and garden . |
| 18 | Are the differences between yoked and quiet control the result of learning or of stress — and is the learning group perhaps less stressed than the yoked group ? |
| 19 | The shortage of housing is so acute that the vast Cairene cemeteries , known as the City of the Dead , host a population of squatters thought to number over a million . |
| 20 | Ramsey said that the name of Billy Graham was linked with fundamentalism ; and that fundamentalism was the error of regarding the Bible as so divine that the human element disappeared . |
| 21 | It is found that the former can give rise to convection even when the latter is sufficiently strong that the net effect of the two is a decrease ; i.e. lighter fluid overlies heavier . |
| 22 | But the point remains : Mrs Thatcher was a lot less Arabist than the Foreign Office . |
| 23 | Our economy has a substantial financial services sector , which would be greatly disadvantaged if the central bank were located anywhere in the Community other than in this country and in London . |
| 24 | Old galvanised iron rising main and cold feed pipes can usually be removed with Stillsons ; a metal overflow pipe may be so rusted that the only answer is to cut it off . |
| 25 | it is extremely doubtful that the overall system … can ever be made to work without the kind of total ideological commitment and radical transformation which underlie its operation in socialist Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | Disenfranchisement would mean upheavals for staff , start-up costs and teething troubles for the new contractor , and a danger that the service would indeed turn out to be demonstrably less popular than the old contractor 's or different from what was promised . |
| 27 | The mediocre is less acceptable than the down-right bad because it sometimes masquerades as something worth while . |
| 28 | The continuation … so we did is less acceptable because the elided material ( squirt them with the hose ) is not literally present . |
| 29 | The shop at fault was clearly shown on the chart as its horizontal line was much shorter than the similar line above it showing the progress of earlier operations in its manufacture , and as soon as the supply reverted to normal again , the red flag was removed . |
| 30 | The rock is extremely unstable and the hanging boulder field above both areas means that the finishes to the truncated climbs are exceptionally dangerous . |