Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [verb] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is now suggested that it is much more appropriate to see child abuse as a result of multiple interacting factors , including the parents ' and children 's psychological traits , the family 's place in the larger social and economic structure , and the balance of external supports and stresses , both interpersonal and material .
2 People on higher incomes may use quite a wide range of credit sources , but are less likely than average to buy on mail order , much less likely to use HP , and very much more likely to use bank credit cards , bank loans and overdrafts .
3 However we are unlikely to develop a great deal of extra muscle by normal sporting activities ; we are much more likely to improve muscle tone .
4 IT IS ONLY MORE ECONOMICAL TO BUY OIL PAINT IN TINS PROVIDED THAT YOU USE IT QUICKLY .
5 IT IS ONLY MORE ECONOMICAL TO BUY OIL PAINT IN TINS PROVIDED THAT YOU USE IT QUICKLY .
6 It is all too easy to ignore PC maintenance until something goes wrong .
7 It is not necessarily essential to design knowledge representation formalisms into which the input text must be translated and subsequently acted upon .
8 However , a Class 1 transaction is not sufficiently important to require shareholder approval .
9 It was not even necessary to remove hir underwear before Alix started yelling .
10 By the late 1930s , the position had improved somewhat , but unemployment soared again during the first two years of the Second World War , when about a quarter of the membership found itself unemployed.29 For these single women in their 40s and 50s , it was not immediately easy to find war work , for instance in munitions factories , nor were they necessarily eager to do so .
11 Robbie knew she would n't have been any more willing to leave Water Gypsy .
12 During the Battle of Britain and the succeeding period of the so-called ‘ blitz' — the night bombardment of cities throughout the autumn and winter of 1940–41 — it became still more difficult to conduct party activity .
13 For much of the century , their daily rate had been fixed by statute , initially in 1721 at 2s or 2s 6d ( 10-12½p ) per day , but they were hardly ever able to find employment constant enough to earn more than 9s ( 45p ) a week , and in their slack months even less .
14 Provided that the main release is concise and to the point , editors are usually quite happy to receive background material which is relevant to the interests of their readerships .
15 The combination of lack of access to a car , difficulty in using public transport because of the increased likelihood of disability , and inaccessible location of necessary services , means that older people are both more likely to have difficulty walking and yet more likely to depend on walking as means of getting about .
16 Otherwise , they shifted the house-building emphasis from public to private building but by no means eliminated a substantial public element from their enlarged building programme ; they were marginally more ready to increase health service charges ; and they were , perhaps , rather slow to raise social security benefits .
17 But the farm would be much more profitable if the British were n't so reluctant to eat goat meat .
18 This makes it even more difficult to restrain bank lending .
19 They are today more likely to wear store clothing than skins , and to travel by skidoo ( motor sledge ) than dog team .
20 Seen by some as just a price/performance kicker in its initial guises , Intel is having well-documented problems in getting yields of the more important 66MHz part ( UX No 410 ) , and is reportedly still unable to get power consumption on the thing down to four watts .
21 And it is sometimes more economical to provide fault tolerance in the software than in the hardware .
22 A Dragon-Dictate system was evaluated ; the results showed that speech recognition was suitable in circumstances where a keyboard could not easily be used , but was not yet sufficiently reliable to replace keyboard entry .
23 What are things coming to if it is no longer possible to spend time sailing and taking part in other water sports without subjecting yourself to the risk of such symptoms as rashes and vomiting ?
24 Remove any one and the interdependence breaks down , and is no longer able to support plant life .
25 This means that the LEA is no longer able to safeguard teacher employment by insisting on redeployment from one school to another in the LEA .
26 It is therefore extremely important to submit form CLA 5A without delay where a client is entitled to free legal aid .
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