Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By March this year the price of sorghum , wheat and maize in local markets had been depressed so far that farmers were complaining . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ We 're all back together and things can only get better if we start winning again . ’ |
| 3 | The books of Roald Dahl are in the group of books that , due to their appeal to young readers , and perhaps their iconoclastic treatment of the adult world , are suspect as far as critics and prize panels are concerned . |
| 4 | Women , because of their cycles of menstruation and childbearing , are impure more often than men . |
| 5 | On the practical level , changes in social policies which reduce women 's claims to maintenance on men but do not recognise that changes in the division of responsibilities for caring between men and women within the family and between the family and the wider community are also required , may in the end be counter-productive as far as women are concerned . |
| 6 | Otherwise one might make a statistical correction or even hope that its effect is small , i.e. discrimination might be good enough even when light is lost due to blocking . |
| 7 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 8 | BCCI 's " major customers and shareholders " were aware as early as April 1990 , it said , of widespread fraud and manipulation of banking records within BCCI ; " the precise amount of such losses and fictitious profits [ over the period from 1977 to 1985 ] can not now be established " , but could have approached US$1,000 million . |
| 9 | The point is that as far as room bookings are concerned |
| 10 | Cutting the small figures to an equal depth , the sculptor found himself forced to consider their three-dimensionality , to think of them as statues ; and it is this probably rather than emulation of the terror-masks that makes so many of them turn to look at us . |
| 11 | None of us is pure as far as animal exploitation is concerned . |
| 12 | The Lithuania match is meaningless as far as World Cup Group Three is finish his career with an unbeaten run . |
| 13 | This is welcome not only because women 's desires are being taken more seriously in cultural production or because a less purist feminist film practice and criticism is simply more fun , but perhaps particularly because it is in relation to the audience , and in the context of film reception , that issues of race , class and sexual orientation can at last find their rightful place in feminist theory and criticism . |
| 14 | Therefore , the Unfair Contract Terms Act is helpful as far as contracts for hardware are concerned but has little relevance for software contracts . |
| 15 | Most such answers imply enjoyment , even ‘ I am interested in it ’ ( which at least suggests the prospect of happy hours of observing , reading , thinking ) ; but ‘ I am curious about it ’ is neutral as far as enjoyment is concerned . |
| 16 | Good passenger-carrying capacity is vital as far as Peaks is concerned because the Shogun is used to pick up some of his employees and take them to work . |
| 17 | It is clear that the premium is equivalent as far as factor prices are concerned to a tax on labour in the X sector ( for simplicity we take on the demand side the effects are also equivalent with the simplifying assumptions being made here . |
| 18 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 19 | They are significant not only as media for transmitting material , television now being the main source of political information for most people , but also for the choice of what material to transmit . |
| 20 | Whatever it might have been , it was short-lived so far as James was concerned . |
| 21 | The coexistence in Francia of Louis and Lothar as co-emperors was possible so long as Lothar remained unmarried . |
| 22 | The balcony was cool and the night was dark as far as Broadway , where a slab of writhing electricity changed the colour of all the window panes on the other side of the street . |
| 23 | This , however , was impossible so long as descent was reckoned according to mother right . |
| 24 | Mr Loxton 's evidence was shaky as far as time was concerned . |
| 25 | Her voice was happy once more and Kate watched her run from the room . |
| 26 | She 'd always heard that his charm was legendary as far as women were concerned and this evening was certainly proving the truth of it . |
| 27 | This article has shown that Burton-Roberts ' instinct that apposition is a discourse phenomenon , or , more particularly , a rhetorical device was correct as far as reformulations are concerned . |
| 28 | That was sustainable so long as France faced an unquestioned nuclear threat from the Soviet Union , and needed to respond with only small-scale military operations overseas ( in Chad , for example , or Gabon ) . |