Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Lou Cannon , ‘ Most importantly the near destruction of the parties had created a star system of personality politics long before television had arrived . |
| 2 | Further voltage increase gives another transition : the pattern of current variation repeats on only every fourth cycle of the source ( picture ( c ) ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Surprisingly ’ because it is the large American universities that typify most obviously the apparent disintegration of the academic community into a multitude of discrete disciplinary cultures . |
| 4 | Right so A quick sort of look at different patterns . |
| 5 | Shoulders and upper arms are covered by a cape , or perhaps rather a cape-like adjustment of the dress : seen from the back it does not seem to be a separate garment . |
| 6 | Since this heat transfer will occur only slowly the maximum uplift of the passive margin would probably occur as long as 60 Ma after rifting ; this contrasts with the non-uniform extension model in which uplift takes place concurrently with stretching and rifting . |
| 7 | Thus it becomes clearer why the Law Society is anxious to distinguish between professional services and business , to promote so vigorously an altruistic conception of the lawyer/client relationship . |
| 8 | On several occasions the ‘ correct ’ response was not the obvious one , so perhaps a wider variety of inputs could 've been catered for . |
| 9 | So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times . |
| 10 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 11 | Upon looking up , we discovered the Indians passing along the side of the cliff , where we thought a goat could not pass , much less an entire tribe of Indians , with all their impediments . |
| 12 | To summarise this conception : for both Marx and Braverman the developed form of the division of labour within the capitalist enterprise is not so much a technical division of tasks — as in early manufacture — but a socially determined structure , reflecting the exigencies of the production of surplus value . |
| 13 | In some variants of reported speech where the speaker is only implicitly identified , the words may be not so much a straight transformation of what was said as a summary or paraphrase of it . |
| 14 | What concerns us is not so much a detailed account of the politics which led to the passing of the acts and to their eventual repeal in the 1880s . |
| 15 | For many , their own loyalty to a particular nation is so much an unspoken element of personal identity ( as opposed to the public world of politics ) that it is impossible to discuss ; nationalism is only what foreigners believe in . |
| 16 | not so much an interlocking economy of producing and consuming enterprises but a community of subjects who produce and consume in order to produce … . |
| 17 | From their results they argue that this is not so much an objective assessment of the functioning of their personal networks , but a judgment based on the ‘ intrapsychic needs of the respondent , in terms of ‘ dependency ’ or anxious attachment' ( Henderson , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Technology is so pervasive , so much an intrinsic part of modern life , that we tend to take it for granted . |
| 19 | It is not so much the Western origin of new component technologies as their gestation in the West 's civilian sectors which must pose the most vexing questions for Soviet policy makers and their orthodoxies . |
| 20 | The problem was not so much the offensive content of the material , since there was no one who was not familiar with it . |
| 21 | The key to success in collecting information , however , is not so much the organizational ability of the clearinghouses , but the confidence of the librarians that their information and experience will be disseminated carefully , effectively , and , sometimes , with discretion . |
| 22 | What was probably most important to such an audience was not so much the unlikely explanation of a phenomenon as its very mention , reducing fears of the unknown and of apparently inexplicable events such as changes in female physiology during pregnancy . |
| 23 | To repeat , these days it is hard to recapture the innovative and radical character of variable analysis since it is now so much the orthodox conception of what social research consists in . |
| 24 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 25 | This discreteness is due to the need to fit a whole number of half wavelengths along the length of the string , for which there is obviously only an enumerable number of possibilities . |
| 26 | ‘ Much better the last couple of days . ’ |
| 27 | What is new however is the suggestion , which at the time of writing must have appeared as the height of impertinence , that the Greek and Roman states originated in much the same kind of confederation as the Iroquois . |
| 28 | The prospect of the break-up of China into a new form of warlordism , for so long a mere fantasy of the China lobby in the US , is now not an entirely implausible worst-case scenario . |
| 29 | The steam engine and boiler were sold for scrap shortly after the mill ceased working , and the tall brick chimney , so long a distinctive landmark of the area , demolished some time later . |
| 30 | So long the sick man of Europe , it is now not only dead but hung , drawn and quartered . |