Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] today [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appeal of such a position is of course very considerable , and seems no less strong today than two centuries ago . |
| 2 | This is so respectable today that Christians of all denominations have embraced it . |
| 3 | ‘ Piss ’ is one of several four-letter words less acceptable today than it has been in the past . |
| 4 | This doubt is especially prevalent today since religious faith is often viewed as anything but a matter of truth . |
| 5 | A small number of cycad genera survive in the tropical and subtropical regions today , but they are much less conspicuous today than they were 120 million years ago . |
| 6 | The situation is very much easier today than even ten years ago when male/female roles were far more stereotyped and many couples felt that they had to conform to a set pattern for the sake of convention . |
| 7 | The influence of the Catholic church is less suffocating today than it was two generations ago , but it is still striking to outsiders . |
| 8 | the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods . |
| 9 | Both areas will be far below optimum today but — and this is the important point — in the one case the land can be brought back to full production easily , whereas in the other case a long and costly process of fertility building will be necessary . |
| 10 | They look like Bahamas do n't they ? been so hot today if you do n't mi er and it makes you feel you know your age , when er it 's this hot weather . |
| 11 | The potential political and economic gains ensure that the impetus towards a currency union in Europe is likely to prove much stronger today than it did in the turbulent Seventies . |
| 12 | So the forces acting on the ERM are much stronger today than ever before . |
| 13 | The decline of marriage , increasing cohabitation and extra-marital childbearing and the emergence of new family structures arising from greater divorce , remarriage and lone parenthood has meant that the traditional image of the family , of a married couple with dependent children , is less common today than in the past . |
| 14 | These general principles have long lain at the heart of the social purpose approach : and they are no less relevant today than in the 1900s . |
| 15 | This traditional spokesmanship , which can imply serious responsibilities , is naturally becoming less significant today as modern communications and education reach into the furthest quarters of the globe . |
| 16 | It may be fashionable to decry Robbins — and many of the universities ' problems stem from the rapid expansion of the 1960s which followed his report — but his pertinent description of the aims of higher education is no less valid today than when it was written . |
| 17 | His wife 's a little sad today because he phoned here this morning and she 's a little upset , she 'd like to go home and be with him , but she 's happy that he 's safe |
| 18 | In this emergent consciousness paradigm it will be taken for granted that human beings have psychological capacities ; capacities largely unrecognised today and almost entirely unsuspected 50 years ago . |
| 19 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 20 | Has the desire been bred in us or is it that there are so many and so easily available today that they are no longer considered of value ? ) |
| 21 | ‘ It is his good fortune that he is still alive today and also your good fortune that , through no result of fine judgment on your part , you have not faced a charge of murder . |
| 22 | But it has always been wrong , and is more wrong today than ever before . |
| 23 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 24 | Indeed , advice work is certainly more complex today than even a few years ago . |
| 25 | CD-ROM 's central role in multimedia is far more evident today than when it first emerged . |
| 26 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 27 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 28 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 29 | ‘ The ideals of the New World Information and Communication Order ( NWICO ) are more relevant today than ever before ’ . |
| 30 | Robert Owen is still influential today and a newly-restored New Lanark is now a shrine for Japanese businessmen eager to explore his system of benign authoritarian socialism . |