Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shame , then , that so few of the Discovery 's customers are likely ever to make use of these abilities . |
| 2 | The fact that so few of the Crown 's powers were redefined in 1688 – 9 meant that neither the old conflicts between Court and Country , nor those between advocates of limited versus strong , autocratic monarchy , had reached any satisfactory resolution . |
| 3 | However , the firm and a qualifying intermediary can agree in writing that the intermediary 's client is not to be treated as an indirect customer ( and therefore not as a customer ) or is to be treated as an indirect customer in relation to only some of the firm 's obligations . |
| 4 | This is possible because only half of the tape 's width travels past the heads on each run . |
| 5 | He felt that his experience in the film Hello , Dolly ! had given him the confidence to do Billy , and he remained grateful to Gene Kelly , who had helped him so much during the picture 's making . |
| 6 | However , this association may be due not so much to the parents ' socio-economic situation but , since most women in the childbearing ages were economically active at that time in Hungary , as to the occupational conditions of the mothers . |
| 7 | ‘ Parents control so much of a 14-year-old 's life , the computer gives the child the opportunity to take control for himself . ’ |
| 8 | I explained to them that when you begin to acquire so much of a nation 's wealth , then you can not escape attention . |
| 9 | It is even plausible to suppose that having to depend excessively on prediction from prior context may take up so much of a reader 's cognitive resources that more wide-ranging comprehension is blocked ( Stanovich , 1980 ) . |
| 10 | But the affectionate satire of outrageously hammy theatricals , though amusing , strikes rather a hollow note when so much of the company 's own work is stridently self-indulgent . |
| 11 | At the meeting , Luigi Zanda , a leading Italian campaigner for Venice and President of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova , made a plea , published here in place of the usual editorial ( see p.1 ) , for the future of Venice to be treated by the Italian government with a new sense of responsibility and morality free from the political factionism which stalemates so much of the country 's public life . |
| 12 | The Barlow Report ( Royal Commission 1940 ) highlighted the strategic disadvantages of so much of the nation 's industry and population being concentrated in South-East England ( and within range of enemy bombers ) . |
| 13 | The combined effect of these provisions is that the question of whether or not a child has special educational needs depends not so much on the child 's specific needs considered in isolation , but rather on the appropriateness or otherwise of existing provision . |
| 14 | oh they went up last year , er , I just forget now , so much on the mile er |
| 15 | As Figure 2.1 suggested , the difference may lie not so much in the knowledge per se as in the stance one adopts . |
| 16 | The weakness of the system lay not so much in the Exchequer 's faulty handling of the business for which it was intended , as in the absence of any institution responsible for developing or supervising the whole field of royal finance . |
| 17 | Services run by FIS-controlled local councils remained suspended , although according to the Economist of June 8 " the strike fizzled , partly because so many of the FIS 's young followers have no jobs to strike from " . |
| 18 | The plan involved a 15 per cent consumption tax , extensive privatization of state enterprises , cuts in social welfare spending , the stimulation of investment and an end to the " cronyism " with which so many of the government 's appointments had been tainted . |
| 19 | Several old mills survive , but of equal interest is the industrial housing in so many of the town 's streets . |
| 20 | For the teachings of the Sage , suddenly , have established themselves as an almost indestructible Oriental adhesive , helping to bind so many of the region 's member-societies together . |
| 21 | Behbehanian had not fled the turmoil early in 1978 , like so many of the Shah 's nearest and dearest . |
| 22 | Marcos was a prime beneficiary of Washington 's egregious ‘ hold-the-nose ’ policy , the brand of realpolitik which , since the Second World War , has buoyed up so many of the world 's most grotesque regimes . |
| 23 | The task is to define the ‘ god ’ and lay down the precepts whereby the corresponding religion can be disciplined and protected from the kind of exploitation for political or financial advantage which in the past has corrupted or destroyed so many of the world 's religious activities . |
| 24 | In both hot and cold climates you can provide a good quality result , and it is no accident so many of the world 's ‘ serious ’ wines are made with Cabernet Sauvignon . |
| 25 | They probably live the sort of lives humans were meant to live and possess the tough , gentle content of wild things , instead of the self-inflicted urban hang-ups that create so many of the world 's evils . |
| 26 | Firstly , I am tired of hearing from experts that so many of the world 's problems are insoluble : poverty , malnutrition , pollution , road accidents , bureaucracy , illiteracy , inflation … there are literally hundreds of such problems , and most of them are getting worse . |
| 27 | The government intends to publish a plan by the end of April for closing down all of the country 's uranium mines . |
| 28 | No , but the , the only good , heard of it is erm he said and basically any of the para 's are n't |
| 29 | By 1829 he had succeeded in bringing together most of the country 's cotton-spinners into the Grand General Union of Operative Cotton Spinners , and , although it had disappeared by 1831 , it was an important stage in the heightening of class-consciousness among certain groups of working people . |
| 30 | We collect together most of the information erm in a single brochure which we call ‘ Services for Industry ’ . |