Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb base] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In Wales , the Home Secretary can not distinguish a rural community from an urban community , much less appreciate the different policing needs of each . |
| 2 | Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact . |
| 3 | Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process . |
| 4 | The exception is , of course , in the pronouncement that shareholders have in effect surrendered their power to professional management , a pronouncement which does not so much face the central question of the rights of ownership as to try to pass it by . |
| 5 | In the fullerene-based superconductors , the intrinsic orientational disorder ( leading to a relatively high intrinsic resistivity or short mean free path ) , short coherence length and high T c together greatly extend the useful temperature range for measurement of the fluctuations and allow direct observation of the fluctuation phenomena in pure single crystals . |
| 6 | And so generally buy the first thing that actually fits . |
| 7 | The adoral shields are short , rectangular in shape , they do not or only just separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 8 | O. valenciennesi rufescens differs from O. valenciennesi Lyman ( Challenger Stn 192 off Kei Is 236 m ) in the following respects : the disk spinelets are not as rugose as those of O. valenciennesi and the adoral shields do not or only just separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate , those of O. valenciennesi are more wing-like and extend to the genital slits . |
| 9 | If you run in still air the apparent wind you feel blows in your face . |
| 10 | A stuff sack should be used to carry your bag in a rucksack , but stuff sacks are rarely waterproof so always put the whole lot inside a polythene bag . |
| 11 | So always check the small print . |
| 12 | One outcome of this is that there is not a single national daily or Sunday newspaper which supports any political position further left than the Right of the Labour Party , while the great majority of newspapers not only openly support the Conservative Party but also purvey a range of typically Right-wing attitudes which extend far beyond the relatively narrow confines of purely party politics . |
| 13 | Thus , despite the widespread use of intravenous heparin no patency data so far support the additional use of this agent once full-dose aspirin has been given with streptokinase or anistreplase . |
| 14 | However , we do n't just want your answers to our questions ; we also want your ideas , so please answer the final question . |
| 15 | If so please contact the Hon Secretary and also Mr Martin , who is at 17 , Balmoral Crescent , West Moseley , Surrey , KT8 9QA . |
| 16 | Deprivation payments only partially redress the financial inequity that general practitioners in inner London suffered . |
| 17 | Britain has been muttering that if it perceives a ‘ consensus for democracy ’ in Hong Kong , it will start ‘ talking tough ’ to Peking at a diplomatic level , and perhaps even adopt the Legislative Council proposals for 1995 in the teeth of Chinese opposition and without regard to ‘ convergence ’ with the Basic Law . |
| 18 | Display material , advertisements and so on need the extra quality and , if these are the products which you will be producing it is important to ensure that you can move between the systems without having to change the data . |
| 19 | Singers like Dennis Brown have taken up Marley 's mantle ; so too have the growing number of rap poets whose patois English is well-nigh incomprehensible to non-Jamaican ears . |
| 20 | This is why I think Walter Wink 's recent study on the ‘ powers ’ of the New Testament ( Wink 1984 ) is so interesting ; he demonstrates that power concepts not only saturate the New Testament but are an essential aspect of its message . |
| 21 | England and Wales not only have the highest crime rates in Europe — they also have the fastest rates of increase . |
| 22 | Edwina Currie and Simon Hughes not only have the same face , voice and mannerisms — they are in fact the same person : creations of a con- and drag-artist who dreamed up the idea to draw two salaries , and now wishes he had n't . |
| 23 | Not only have the basic building blocks of the computer become smaller and cheaper , and hence more readily available to a greater number of people , the language of the computer has become much more accessible to the lay person . |
| 24 | She said , ‘ Sweetie , do n't forget I not only need the right man for me , but the right stepfather for Dickie . |
| 25 | Politicians and party activists not only face the normal cut and thrust of political life but also a deadly threat to their lives . |
| 26 | Individual nuclear family units not only provide the maximum number of outlets for commodity production , but also facilitate social control . |
| 27 | The mean and fluctuating parts of the velocity field thus individually satisfy the usual form of the continuity equation . |
| 28 | But why go to the expense of elaborate shrouds and superfine linen coffin linings ; why not just put the naked body into the coffin and have done with it ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why not just hang the poor sod ? ’ |
| 30 | As the appliances will be used for quite a few years , perhaps under changing circumstances as couples have children , it 's important to look ahead and not just buy the cheapest model to save a few pounds . |