Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small panels of bold , simple very low relief are perhaps most easily carved by hand , but on other work time savings of over 90 per cent can be achieved ; 75 per cent is a reasonable average . |
| 2 | The ideological bankruptcy of the Communists is perhaps most graphically conveyed by quotation of a comment by Soviet Latin Americanist Anatoli Shul'govskii to the effect that in 1945 the Mexican Communist party had a ‘ Marxist ’ ideology comparable to the ‘ legal Marxism ’ of tsarist Russia ( Löwy : 1982 , p. 37 ) . |
| 3 | The old Tominahs say that this crescent-moon shape means the bottom arc of a great vertical circle of our lives — the section at which we are all most deeply plunged into matter . |
| 4 | Particularly at election time , television reached out and informed sections of the electorate which were usually much less well informed about politics . |
| 5 | Commitment accounting is much less widely adopted in practice than either cash accounting or accruals accounting . |
| 6 | With a few exceptions , insectivores are much less commonly represented in pellet assemblages , and lagomorphs even less so , and it has proved impossible to obtain large enough samples of these species to provide numerical data . |
| 7 | The firm is perhaps more strongly committed to growth than Spencer Stuart , recently taking on more new consultants and expanding into the stylish Devonshire House development opposite the Ritz Hotel in Mayfair place . |
| 8 | At the same time , however , the child 's status as a child is perhaps more tightly defined through employment legislation , the raising of the school-leaving age ( thus depriving the child of an independent source of income as well as retaining him or her within an institutionalized system of control ) , and the growth of a market geared to particular and distinctive images of childhood and adolescence . |
| 9 | Today , it seems , domestic development is much more effectively promoted by integration in a world economy : accepting foreign capital into the domestic economy , with production specialized for a world market ( and relying upon imports ) . |
| 10 | Taking a steady look at it , thought Nelly to herself , easing off her shoes for greater comfort , it was n't such a bad little house , and certainly very much more conveniently placed for shopping than her own cottage at Lulling Woods . |
| 11 | I do n't see the support of victims of crime as a separate service provided by a small specialist agency but as something which should be much more widely accepted like sickness or bereavement , so that people can get a more sensitive and understanding response from their employers , neighbours , doctors and so on . ’ |
| 12 | Gold is much more widely distributed in nature than jade . |
| 13 | Some assessments are much more directly related to action for improving a teacher 's teaching and assisting pupils in their learning rather than for classifying them by their level of attainment . |
| 14 | Terror , counter-terror , torture , and the absolute necessity of violence ( later much more clumsily explored by Leone in A Fistful Of Dynamite ) are relentlessly portrayed , all to Ennio Morricone 's least flowery score ever . |
| 15 | The period of greater stability — the ‘ mid-Victorian equipoise ’ which followed has been somewhat more adequately mapped by research than the upheavals that went before ( see , for example , Bailey 1978 ; 1986a ; Brat ton 1986 ; D. Russell 1987 ; Scott 1989 ) . |
| 16 | Gold objects so far partly cleaned of earth include an extremely large gold bracelet ornamented with a pierced frieze of a well-known Roman type . |
| 17 | But his speculation — so far only seen in outline , in a methodological ( and often polemical ) essay rather than in a series of detailed studies — point to what I believe to be the correct questions even if he does not provide all the right answers . |
| 18 | Policies of economic redistribution to the less well off met with resistance from skilled workers at a time of low economic growth . |
| 19 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 20 | Noel was unashamedly ‘ political ’ , but he felt that being ‘ non-political ’ only too often meant in practice tacitly supporting the dominion of Mammon , and ignoring the needs of the poor and the oppressed all over the world , attitudes which were not in his reading of the Christian faith . |
| 21 | The emotions give warmth and feeling , but through them factual perception and logic are all too easily ruled by imagination . |
| 22 | They are all too easily consumed to excess , and thus may lead to obesity . |
| 23 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 24 | In both , a warm , dignified and considerate people provide a marked contrast to the simple peasants or scruffy bandits who are all too often seen on screen . |
| 25 | The distinction between sheep of hardy and other breeds should be abolished because it is only very loosely related to degree of handicap . |
| 26 | So that 's that 's something that you 've never done before an equation you 've st perhaps never even heard of calcium sulphate . |
| 27 | Now I am in heaven — no , not dead just surrounded by metal detectors ! |
| 28 | If people were no longer so easily frightened into docility , new ways would have to be found to make them ductile . |
| 29 | This is an important issue which needs addressing given that commissioning authorities are not particularly accountable to the public and that an increasing proportion of purchasing power has devolved to general practitioner fundholders , who are not necessarily geographically distributed in proportion to need . |
| 30 | The conclusions we reach in this chapter , therefore , are that : MOST SEDIMENTATION IN THE CONTINENTAL AREAS IS LATERAL RATHER THAN VERTICAL AND IS NOT NECESSARILY DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH SUBSIDENCE . |