Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a " no entry " sign is placed on the old behaviour it is much less likely to work because the temptation of the familiar path is too strong . |
| 2 | They involve higher derivatives and are therefore somewhat less easy to apply than the Alfrey approximation . |
| 3 | Such brief ‘ thumb-nail ’ sketches do give some indication of the essence of sociology , but ultimately it is both necessary and perhaps more fruitful to emphasise that the most important and distinctive feature of sociology is not so much what is studied but how it is studied , i.e. it is important to indicate what is the particular perspective of sociology , its distinct way of looking at the individual and society . |
| 4 | It seems much more reasonable to suggest that the speaker is indicating a readiness to be friendly and to talk . |
| 5 | In this connection thought appears to be divided almost on a national basis , English authors having resorted freely to the assumption that the sea is capable of cutting wide platforms in their interpretation of high level terraces , while American and continental authorities have been much more inclined to doubt whether the sea can cut a very wide bench unless there is progressive drowning of the land or unless the sea is merely trimming up a subaerial surface . |
| 6 | Knowing how radio sets are typically organized we would be much more likely to conclude that the whole circuit was working incorrectly . |
| 7 | This is much more likely to arise where the vendor must be seen to obtain the best possible price for the land , such as a trust , bank or other institution . |
| 8 | It is much more likely to succeed where the target 's board can speak for control of the company and the board supports the scheme . |
| 9 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 10 | The funnel structure shown in the drawing is certainly usable but it is much more difficult to use than the ordinary funnel shown in the drawing for " efficiency " . |
| 11 | Furthermore , the sensitising effect of extensive nociceptive stimulation from surgery may prove much more difficult to block than the limited chemical or thermal stimuli used in animal models of pain . |
| 12 | He kissed me again , a different , unanguished sort of kiss which was somehow much more difficult to bear than the other . |
| 13 | It is all too easy to find that the only properly planned meetings are the ones at which exchange of contracts and completion take place and those are meetings which are usually orchestrated by the solicitors acting for the buyer and the seller . |
| 14 | In attempting to help users in searching automated catalogues , it is perhaps too easy to assume that the machine must do it all and that the burden must be removed entirely from the user . |
| 15 | It is perhaps too idealistic to suggest that the process of ageing should be dealt with during childhood , but it is certainly during these years that the basis of ageism becomes rooted in us and thereafter affects the way we approach our own old age . |
| 16 | It 's not entirely fanciful to suggest that the Church of England is a kind of conglomerate . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is perhaps not overly optimistic to think that the view of the relation between an event and its support put forward here may be applicable , mutatis mutandis , to the -ing form and may even throw light on the vexed question of gerund vs participle . |
| 18 | When this process becomes revolutionary upheaval is not always easy to identify and the decision as to whether it was a radical reinterpretation rather than simply an adjustment depends on the observer 's standpoint . |
| 19 | This is extremely time consuming and it is not always easy to tell whether the grains are what you think if they are not well-preserved . |
| 20 | Also , where Newco is acquiring a business , it seems it is no longer strictly necessary to ensure that the shares the managers subscribe in Newco confer control after the institutions have invested , so long as they confer control before then , assuming in this scenario that the managers invest well before the institutions and before the institutions are committed to investing . |
| 21 | It is normally also necessary to check whether the investments themselves qualify for the exemption and to obtain the putative counterparty 's consent and this will need detailed compliance procedures . |
| 22 | While dependence on American assistance in 1964 – 65 might seem to have left the British government dangerously exposed to American influence ( or even dictation ) , in practice it is just as reasonable to argue that the Wilson government was able to turn American self-interest to its own advantage . |
| 23 | It is just as important to ensure that the contact names , addresses and phone numbers are included on captions as on releases . |
| 24 | It may mean ‘ The Spirit of God has made me ’ , but in view of the parallel ‘ and the breath of the Almighty gives me life ’ it is just as likely to mean that the Spirit is the animating principle of life . |
| 25 | Furthermore it is not even possible to specify whether the energy is in the peaks or valleys of the waves . |
| 26 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 27 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |
| 28 | He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) . |
| 29 | It is not too strong to say that the ultimate economic problem — choice under conditions of scarcity — results from this radical rupture in the natural world and in human personality . |
| 30 | Indeed it is not too much to say that the Inklings were preoccupied with them . |