Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mail continues to pour in much faster than Cats and I can answer it , and among last week 's was a book from lovely Katie Boyle and a letter saying , ‘ You 're not dying , Marti , read this book . ’ |
| 2 | The figures in Table 4 show how many of these responsibilities were eventually reduced , prior to the Korean War , but much more slowly than Keynes and others called for . |
| 3 | Doctors were always in some way or other community leaders , much more so than lawyers or bankers . |
| 4 | Fluid balance is an extremely delicate indicator of health and as such , can warn of serious problems much more quickly than pulse and respiratory rates . |
| 5 | Unlike the personal care between spouses , these patterns of support here are highly gendered , with daughters and mothers being carers much more commonly than sons and fathers ( Bayley , 1973 ; Wilkin , 1979 ; Glendinning , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | If for example women were turned down more often than men because their employment history was shorter , they were not in a skilled job , and they did not have a bank account , this would not constitute discrimination against women — as the conditions , only part of an overall scoring system , would not be absolute . |
| 7 | We could travel together as far as Doha and I would go on alone to Abu Dhabi . |
| 8 | Benjaminian allegory functions perhaps as crucially as supplement as it does as ‘ criticism ’ . |
| 9 | HAVING ducked the bullets once , Dennis Conner must do so again today if Stars & Stripes is not to be eliminated from the America 's Cup defenders ' trials in a sudden-death sail-off against Bill Koch 's Kanza . |
| 10 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 11 | We play sevens but not as seriously as Fiji or Samoa . ’ |
| 12 | I might not ask again until it was too late ; my native caution would betray me just as effectively as Arsenio and Osvaldo 's natural daring had subverted their judge-ment . |
| 13 | We want our system , just as surely as France and Germany want to be free to enjoy their systems . |
| 14 | In so far as the house does represent a large capital asset , and it undoubtedly does , I am quite clear that in the long term , house prices are likely , generally to rise with inflation , indeed I would think must do so or perhaps to rise rather more quickly than inflation if there is a rising population and as there has been for very , very ma many years have passed , that , in the passed a decreasing occupancy rate . |
| 15 | Its early juxtapositions of discourse were wonderfully exciting ; more clearly even than Morley and his colleagues , The Face showed how pop style works — as a production , as a phantasm , as a source of skewed discontent and momentary carelessness . |
| 16 | Doubt whether they would go up any further than Sharpness though , ’ he had explained . |
| 17 | The duo sounded very up-market , distinctly more so than Broadmead and the van . |
| 18 | The values indicate that , given the assumptions made about firms ' costs , the dominant firms were acting slightly more competitively than Cournot while the blenders were acting less competitively than Cournot . |
| 19 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
| 20 | The battle continued up as far as Wight and across to France and Gravelines until , as the world knows , ‘ God blew with his wind and they were scattered ’ . |
| 21 | But unfortunately it was misspelt far more often than peas or spring greens or even aubergine , although that , too , was a difficult word . |
| 22 | A man of independent means , Barton travelled widely , visiting France and Italy and possibly venturing as far afield as Poland and Russia , and pursued interests in economics and botany . |
| 23 | Q. You have been involved in projects as far afield as China and South Africa . |
| 24 | For out of the agitation there came the Seamen 's United Protection Society , formed in North Shields , but quickly developing branch associations on the east coast as far afield as Aberdeen and Dundee in one direction and Yarmouth in the other , about twenty in all . |
| 25 | Among the 100 competitors from as far afield as Aberdeen and the Isle of Wight were many of the country 's leading players . |
| 26 | The Reiksguard includes men from all the provinces from as far afield as Ostland and Nordland , Wissenland and Ostermark . |
| 27 | Mail for villages as far afield as Langtoft and Boynton came by post train from Hull , was dropped at Lowthorpe station at 7 am and then brought by horse and cart to the post office at Lowthorpe . |
| 28 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 29 | Our news and picture desks in central London took scores of calls and inquiries from papers , magazines , TV and radio stations from as far afield as America and Australia . |
| 30 | Thousands of migratory wild birds , from as far afield as Greenland and Siberia , fly here each winter to feed — hardly the uninspiring , lifeless picture the poster suggests . |