Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been much debate about the real underlying purposes of this legislation which has been generally vaunted , most importantly in the major textbooks , as designed to ease the buying and selling of land ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 2 | The promotion of language across the curriculum in the wake of the Bullock Report ( 1975 ) has been followed by proposals for pastoral care across the curriculum ( Marland , 1980 ) , and most importantly in the present context , for a coordinated whole-school approach to study skills ( Irving and Snape , 1979 ) . |
| 3 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 4 | Moreover , all the circuit properties of a line are distributed along its length , uniformly so in the ideal situation of a uniformly constructed line . |
| 5 | It was inevitable that the war in Asia would affect politics in Western Europe , most obviously in the military sphere . |
| 6 | There is hardly any difference between the sexes , except that the casque or bonnet at the back of the head and tubercles at the nostrils are a little larger , and the beautiful rosy salmon colour a little deeper in the male bird … ’ |
| 7 | I fell down thankfully in the squidgy chair and drank some tea while he hovered round waiting to pounce again . |
| 8 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 9 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |
| 10 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 11 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 12 | In a fifth , B antigen was expressed strongly in the descending colon , but only weakly in the splenic flexure and the sigmoid colon which suggests that it might have been artefactual . |
| 13 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 14 | She could see her own face reflected in little in the black pupils of his subaqueous eyes . |
| 15 | She had slept so badly in the small hotel . |
| 16 | Perhaps only in the next life . |
| 17 | Individual librarians are frequently looking for ideal models of programmes of instruction or some sort of guidance and direction ( perhaps only in the broadest terms ) . |
| 18 | But perhaps the most punishing — and undeserved — losses had been suffered by von Zwehl 's VII Reserve Corps , which had done so brilliantly in the first days of the battle . |
| 19 | That trend matches the trend in television projections of party unity , which were more favourable to Labour at the start and end of the campaign , but more favourable to the Conservatives in the middle , especially so in the third week . |
| 20 | This was especially so in the German tradition , where several important schools developed . |
| 21 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
| 22 | It ricocheted off a bulkhead , impossibly loud in the confined space , and buried itself in the fleshy part of Terhune 's thigh . |
| 23 | Numbers of mandibles are high in both samples , but the relative proportions of maxillae are much less in the trampled sample , 24 per cent instead of 64 per cent ( Append . |
| 24 | Voters could make their preferences known at home by punching a computer button and — since computers count no less swiftly in the Western Isles than Westminster North — all results could be published simultaneously , guaranteeing an early night for Messrs Paxman , Dimbleby , and Sissons . |
| 25 | It was rare to have six Black gays working politically and personally together in the same workplace and that helped me integrate my identity as a Black lesbian . |
| 26 | Not only does the house contain one of the most interesting ‘ collections of collections ’ , but it is surrounded by the first pleasure garden to be run entirely organically in the National Trust . |
| 27 | A transfer on such a scale , from those who work to those who do not , may be manageable today ; it will be less so in the early years of the next century , when the number of workers per pensioner will start to fall sharply . |
| 28 | When they were hand copied and illuminated they were very rare and valuable , and not much less so in the early days of printing . |
| 29 | If the position regarding bureaucratic independence versus party control is uncertain in Britain , it was less so in the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | It is even less so in the social sciences where there is a dearth of sufficiently well-worked-out theories to test in this way . |