Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , of the other 20 , there is a whole miscellany , of which the most interesting concerns itself with monastic products ; however , as these are Trappist , presumably the less said , the better ! |
| 2 | Though most women experience the feelings I did , they are only willing to discuss them with other mothers . |
| 3 | Whether the Russian landed aristocracy , landowners like Tolstoi 's Count Rostov or Chekhov 's Mme Ranevskaya , were more or less likely to transform themselves into agrarian capitalist entrepreneurs than ante-bellum plantation owners , dreaming of Walter Scott , is quite another question . |
| 4 | Recognising sharp practice in their dealers from the outset , they would be less likely to blame them for huge losses . |
| 5 | Yet the fragmentation of the Church makes it exceedingly difficult to implement anything like normal management practice . |
| 6 | It was , it seems , to prevent this ‘ premature interest ’ that the family , and its moralists , were so anxious to concern themselves with sexual manifestations . |
| 7 | The rail unions staged a series of strikes over poor pay and BR insistence on an end to collective bargaining , and were somewhat surprised to find themselves with public sympathy despite many complete network shutdowns . |
| 8 | They were no longer so ready to see themselves as isolated settlements on the sea coast , unrelated to each other and uninterested in the interior . |
| 9 | ‘ FitzAlan may be a man , ’ he argued , ‘ but he 's a man on a mission — not likely to saddle himself with female company on a hard ride . |
| 10 | You are not likely to find anything of archaeological interest , but museums may be inclined to keep a watchful eye on you ! |
| 11 | As this type of filter should be disturbed as little as possible , it is not advisable to mix it with other media that require regular attention like filter floss . |
| 12 | Also , blotting paper is fairly costly to buy so it is much more economical to use it for pressing time and time again . |
| 13 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 14 | A programme does not have to be conventionally ‘ nine to five , structured but participants are more likely to accommodate themselves to unusual arrangements if you 've given them time for themselves . |
| 15 | If an item is coached carefully step by step in the early stages the performers are more likely to remember it for future use . |
| 16 | Whereas Maurice was always reluctant to involve himself in practical agitation and action , Ludlow was a concrete thinker who was never satisfied until ideals received some sort of institutional expression . |
| 17 | It caused me little inconvenience and even less pain and I was still able to manoeuvre myself into reasonable position and qualify for the final . |
| 18 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 19 | I am doubtful ; I suggest that we have all just become more aware of it in recent years , more ready to take it into new forms . |
| 20 | An organization would be most unlikely to dismiss them without good reason , and if it were to they would have little difficulty finding alternative work . |
| 21 | She has had to work really hard to maintain herself in recent times . |
| 22 | While it is often convenient to deal with equations such as ( 2 ) in the way indicated , it is also often useful to transform them into first-order equations . |
| 23 | After bilabial consonants , in words like ‘ happen ’ , ‘ happening ’ , ‘ ribbon ’ we can consider it equally acceptable to pronounce them with syllabic ( , , ) or with ( , , ) . |
| 24 | There is a rent review due next year , and I think they will be quite likely to ask you for additional rent , erm amount of rent per annum to you . |
| 25 | While this represents an important development in Parliament 's powers of scrutiny , non-departmental bodies account for only a small part of the work of these committees which are quite unable to exercise anything like detailed oversight . |
| 26 | Here are all these computers producing huge amounts of information and completely unable to share it with other computers . |
| 27 | If she was really too old to cure herself of facetious thoughts , at least she could bite them back from the tip of her tongue . |
| 28 | Now we produce erm about half a million or 550,000 units a year , that is not volume in world terms er we acknowledge that we compete in some of the volume sectors , but increasingly as our new products are introduced , we 're very careful to put them in discrete market segments or in niches . |
| 29 | Though he is too politically cautious to admit it in public , Mr Reilly knows he needs taxes as a weapon in the environmental arsenal , even if they are disguised under another label . |
| 30 | And besides , Women 's Word had worked very hard to establish themselves as serious publishers . |