Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that was how it all began — the life , or rather the new life , or better still the Good Life . |
| 2 | This is not the first or perhaps even the second time a Darkfall may have occurred here . |
| 3 | But other writers or perhaps even the same writers in other contexts , were concerned with institutional differences , varieties of law , of systems of government , of property relations , of forms of the family . |
| 4 | The changes brought about by electronically based information technology are so fundamental that , for the historian at least , they must be equated with the invention and spread of printing or perhaps even the initial development of the written record . |
| 5 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 6 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 7 | A week or so later the Italian experts returned the recorder to the magistrate and told him they were unable to read the recorded information . |
| 8 | Frequently the plan of a few words may be the first thing that comes into a student 's head or more ominously the only thing in the student 's head ! |
| 9 | The literature on both temporary working and labour-hoarding suggests that the higher the skill level , or more precisely the specific skill level , of his labour force , the more likely an employer is to seek to maintain continuity of employment and so protect the training investments he has made . |
| 10 | Either in that or more likely the following year Earl Hakon was drowned at sea , and Olaf took the opportunity to return to Norway . |
| 11 | ( In children 's addresses the minister has the last word or more often The Correct Answer . ) |
| 12 | Where do we find such funds to put the case of the moderate teachers in the classrooms who have to ‘ occupy ’ and not teach a large proportion of the class for hours on end whilst they test the few — or sometimes even the one child . |
| 13 | In trying to persuade to move away from arrangements which utilize those bearings we 're effectively trying to do ourselves a favour , because we can not provide those bearings , but we 're not necessarily offering the optimum engineering solution , or maybe even the total cost solution in certain applications |
| 14 | This does not necessarily mean that the cholesterol is the cause , or certainly not the sole cause , of heart attacks . |
| 15 | Michael had had a farm across the border , a lonely ruin near a place called Hackballs Cross , where it was said that men with guns had been known to train , and where certainly only the barest minimum of farming ever happened , enough to get the EC grants and little more . |
| 16 | Native enzyme seems also to protect albeit only partially the minor grooves located at -50 , -60 , -70 and probably up to -80 , suggesting that DNA can wrap partially around the enzyme and establish some non-specific contacts in the conditions reported here . |
| 17 | What has been attempted in this chapter has been the clarification that so far the traditional values of catholic nationalism are still dominant among the Roman catholics of Ireland , even if they are severely contested by a significant minority from among them and lukewarmly subscribed to by a further significant minority . |
| 18 | The main problem is that so far the central battle seems unevenly pitched . |
| 19 | Heat from stronger lighting could be a problem , but it seems that so far the normal air conditioning has been able to cope and no abnormal discomfort has been experienced . |
| 20 | Her only regret was that Dr Neil did not buy the Clarion Cry so that so far the only piece of her work which she had seen in print was the one which she had written before she had arrived in the East End . |
| 21 | Johnson 's account pauses at the Fall of Fiers , today called Foyers , a little more than halfway down the south-eastern length of the Loch . |
| 22 | Such projects were popular constructions in the late 1970s and early 1980s , and I am worried that once again the Welsh Office is trying to catch up with a fashion or a phase that has passed . |
| 23 | Now , he wrote , seeing that during the ‘ critical years of adolescence ’ not more than one out of every three elementary school-leavers received any kind of educational care , there ‘ is reason for thinking that once more the national minimum should be raised ’ . |
| 24 | The quality of ‘ capture ’ which is often said to be the major aim of the department becomes another ‘ lip service ’ to the outside world , although once again the symbolic content of this truth is multi-vocal . |
| 25 | And his programme was to try to show that really ultimately the only things that can be accepted are our own sense experiences , and to try to exhibit everything else , ordinary material objects , and then of course , physical objects in turn , as constructions , as logical constructions out of these . |
| 26 | Fourth , we may point out that quite often the potential reference of the noun as modified by the adjective will not be the same in the predicate qualifying construction as it would be under the attributive version . |
| 27 | Afterwards I will have to knock on other doors but I am sure that yet again the right door will open at the right time . |
| 28 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
| 29 | The idea goes back to Anderson 's work in the 1930s , and Chandley 's explanation is that very occasionally the whole set of donkey chromosomes might cling together and pass to one of the egg cells while the entire horse set goes to the other . |
| 30 | Our hospital organisation has grown up with no plan , with no system ; it is unevenly distributed over the country and indeed it is one of the tragedies of the situation that very often the best hospital facilities are available where they are least needed . |