Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
| 2 | The rest of us are rather less censorious and happily Nilsson 's greatest roles are all preserved on disc . |
| 3 | On the journey up the glen , where there are some conifer plantations , the Five Sisters ridge appears foreshortened and can not be seen in perspective , the individual summits being difficult to distinguish ; those on the south side are rather more distant and better discerned . |
| 4 | Er I 'm also concerned that the services in er even a village that size would be erm overwhelmed by the demands of erm large scale development , but that 's the largest , there are a range of other settlements which are mostly much smaller and even much less able to accommodate , or act as a nucleus for large scale development . |
| 5 | In fact , decisions are rarely so rational or even conscious . |
| 6 | These distinctions are necessarily very loose and easily blurred when actual diagnosis is attempted . |
| 7 | Their reasons for doing so are obviously partially speculative and partially a result of ewe hoggs now being eligible for subsidy . ’ |
| 8 | Sense relations of the more specific sort are obviously too numerous and too idiosyncratic to form the basis for a general study of lexical semantics . |
| 9 | Figures for the average price of a detached house in each region for 1988 are provided in Table 9.1 ( column 6 ) and indicate that houses in the South East are much more expensive than elsewhere in the country . |
| 10 | He now has only two or three bowel movements a day , and these are much more predictable and less urgent , which makes travelling easier . |
| 11 | Obviously some situations are much more serious and therefore more difficult to resolve than a dispute over an untidy room . |
| 12 | In other words , foreign auction houses should have been able to start holding auctions in Paris in 1993 , and as the two big auction houses are much more powerful and widely expert than any French auctioneering partnership , the commissaires-priseurs had good reason to be frightened . |
| 13 | Trees on the semi-dwarfing MM106 are much more vigorous than either M27 or M9 , and achieve a height of around 15ft . |
| 14 | Even the simplest forms of self-evaluation are much more fun and more meaningful than ticking boxes in sheaves of attainment target records . |
| 15 | As a result , economists are much more interested than before in correcting inefficiencies by reducing the costs of doing business ; pursuing efficiency through cleverer and more ambitious regulation is definitely out of fashion . |
| 16 | In many parts of Scotland bus stations that are centrally located in the interests of the travelling public will be sold by property speculators and will be replaced by facilities that are much less adequate and less convenient . |
| 17 | We are all more aware than ever of environmental matters and the need to protect our surroundings . |
| 18 | Just as there are distinctive national sociologies , even if the differences are somewhat less marked than formerly ( Shils 1980 ) , so these are mirrored in the arts ( and , to a somewhat lesser extent , in journalism ) . |
| 19 | Approaches are somewhat more teacher-centred and consequently easier to handle by average teachers than parallel material from the Primary Education Improvement Project in the North , but interesting and relevant nevertheless . |
| 20 | We are extremely happily married but totally incompatible in bed . |
| 21 | And as people they should be ‘ judged ’ no more , no less , than are those of us whose problems are perhaps less obvious but equally undesirable . |
| 22 | While not for one moment can the appalling state of housing in many of the major English cities be denied , there is no reason to believe that the problems of poor housing and underprivilege are any less acute among the rural as opposed to the urban poor : they are merely less obvious and less concentrated in numbers . |
| 23 | However , inter-bank rates are generally slightly higher and certainly more volatile than rates in the traditional market . |
| 24 | They are generally very attractive and well made ; the dyes are of excellent quality , although there is a tendency by some groups to overwash their items , which weakens the pile ( p. 27 ) . |
| 25 | The latter are made on a slowly-rotating machine called a cylinder-mould , and the resulting sheet closely resembles a hand-made sheet in appearance , though the deckle edges are generally more regular and less pronounced than those of a hand-made sheet . |
| 26 | Thus jobs which involve social interaction with other workers are generally more satisfying than socially isolated work ; monotonous , repetitive work is more likely to be linked with job dissatisfaction than more varied work ; jobs which involve responsibility and the ability to organize work time and work methods are generally preferred over those which lack these qualities , and so forth . |
| 27 | Fortunately , it is my experience that the burrows within hedgerows are generally quite small and often individual . |
| 28 | Sometimes materials are just not available or too expensive to afford , but often curriculum panels , drawing on experiences from college demonstration schools and materially rich urban contexts , place far too great reliance on the collection and use of ‘ waste ’ materials or require large amounts of apparatus to be made by teachers . |
| 29 | Boredom and frustration are just as stressful as too much rushing around . |
| 30 | Our Liberal colleagues go down to Leamington and ask the audience to believe that they are just as Liberal as ever they were . |