Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small panels of bold , simple very low relief are perhaps most easily carved by hand , but on other work time savings of over 90 per cent can be achieved ; 75 per cent is a reasonable average . |
| 2 | The ideological bankruptcy of the Communists is perhaps most graphically conveyed by quotation of a comment by Soviet Latin Americanist Anatoli Shul'govskii to the effect that in 1945 the Mexican Communist party had a ‘ Marxist ’ ideology comparable to the ‘ legal Marxism ’ of tsarist Russia ( Löwy : 1982 , p. 37 ) . |
| 3 | The old Tominahs say that this crescent-moon shape means the bottom arc of a great vertical circle of our lives — the section at which we are all most deeply plunged into matter . |
| 4 | Particularly at election time , television reached out and informed sections of the electorate which were usually much less well informed about politics . |
| 5 | Commitment accounting is much less widely adopted in practice than either cash accounting or accruals accounting . |
| 6 | With a few exceptions , insectivores are much less commonly represented in pellet assemblages , and lagomorphs even less so , and it has proved impossible to obtain large enough samples of these species to provide numerical data . |
| 7 | In 1959 Navarro Rubio had not only not immediately fallen under suspicion of disloyalty , but had actually made Franco back down . |
| 8 | The firm is perhaps more strongly committed to growth than Spencer Stuart , recently taking on more new consultants and expanding into the stylish Devonshire House development opposite the Ritz Hotel in Mayfair place . |
| 9 | At the same time , however , the child 's status as a child is perhaps more tightly defined through employment legislation , the raising of the school-leaving age ( thus depriving the child of an independent source of income as well as retaining him or her within an institutionalized system of control ) , and the growth of a market geared to particular and distinctive images of childhood and adolescence . |
| 10 | Today , it seems , domestic development is much more effectively promoted by integration in a world economy : accepting foreign capital into the domestic economy , with production specialized for a world market ( and relying upon imports ) . |
| 11 | Taking a steady look at it , thought Nelly to herself , easing off her shoes for greater comfort , it was n't such a bad little house , and certainly very much more conveniently placed for shopping than her own cottage at Lulling Woods . |
| 12 | I do n't see the support of victims of crime as a separate service provided by a small specialist agency but as something which should be much more widely accepted like sickness or bereavement , so that people can get a more sensitive and understanding response from their employers , neighbours , doctors and so on . ’ |
| 13 | Gold is much more widely distributed in nature than jade . |
| 14 | Some assessments are much more directly related to action for improving a teacher 's teaching and assisting pupils in their learning rather than for classifying them by their level of attainment . |
| 15 | Terror , counter-terror , torture , and the absolute necessity of violence ( later much more clumsily explored by Leone in A Fistful Of Dynamite ) are relentlessly portrayed , all to Ennio Morricone 's least flowery score ever . |
| 16 | The period of greater stability — the ‘ mid-Victorian equipoise ’ which followed has been somewhat more adequately mapped by research than the upheavals that went before ( see , for example , Bailey 1978 ; 1986a ; Brat ton 1986 ; D. Russell 1987 ; Scott 1989 ) . |
| 17 | Gold objects so far partly cleaned of earth include an extremely large gold bracelet ornamented with a pierced frieze of a well-known Roman type . |
| 18 | But his speculation — so far only seen in outline , in a methodological ( and often polemical ) essay rather than in a series of detailed studies — point to what I believe to be the correct questions even if he does not provide all the right answers . |
| 19 | Policies of economic redistribution to the less well off met with resistance from skilled workers at a time of low economic growth . |
| 20 | More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached . |
| 21 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 22 | Noel was unashamedly ‘ political ’ , but he felt that being ‘ non-political ’ only too often meant in practice tacitly supporting the dominion of Mammon , and ignoring the needs of the poor and the oppressed all over the world , attitudes which were not in his reading of the Christian faith . |
| 23 | The emotions give warmth and feeling , but through them factual perception and logic are all too easily ruled by imagination . |
| 24 | They are all too easily consumed to excess , and thus may lead to obesity . |
| 25 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 26 | In both , a warm , dignified and considerate people provide a marked contrast to the simple peasants or scruffy bandits who are all too often seen on screen . |
| 27 | The distinction between sheep of hardy and other breeds should be abolished because it is only very loosely related to degree of handicap . |
| 28 | So that 's that 's something that you 've never done before an equation you 've st perhaps never even heard of calcium sulphate . |
| 29 | Now I am in heaven — no , not dead just surrounded by metal detectors ! |
| 30 | If people were no longer so easily frightened into docility , new ways would have to be found to make them ductile . |