Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bates gets by because his theme is so universal that practically all the heavyweights have something to say on it . |
| 2 | South Central LA is one of America 's civil war zones , a suburban ghetto torn apart by drugs , where the murder rate is at an all time high and almost all the victims are black . |
| 3 | MORALE in Britain is so low that nearly half the population would emigrate if they could , according to a survey . |
| 4 | Public response to the controversial share sale was so strong that virtually all the £5.3billion of shares could be sold without offering any to financial institutions or overseas investors . |
| 5 | Nearly all the participants described in these accounts were male and nearly all the studies were undertaken by male sociologists who had some difficulty communicating with young women . |
| 6 | Hamburger joints and up-market American-style restaurants have been spreading all over Britain in the last few years , and their food has been getting more authentic and better all the time — at least in terms of taste . |
| 7 | Although his analysis is principally philosophical and occasionally historical the concepts and theoretical relations between them that he develops are relevant to understanding specific instances of ideology . |
| 8 | And they get actually pretty upset if only half the people come . |
| 9 | PATRONS : The most Reverend and Right honourable the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Dr George Carey BD Mth Phd Cliff Richard OBE General Eva Burrows OA Head of Salvation Army |
| 10 | From 1873 to 1945 , 19 out of 23 Attorneys-General and over half the Solicitors-General later held high judicial office . |
| 11 | A new packaging method means that the nappies are gently compacted immediately before packing , allowing them to fit inside a bag which is extremely solid and roughly half the size of the old packs . |
| 12 | To relieve the unskilled operator problem much of the decision making is now handled by the program rather than the user ; Ventura being a classic example where the stylesheet is created by a professional and then all the user needs to do is to pour text into the file to create a fully formatted document . |
| 13 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 14 | As we have seen , it was encouraging that over half the applicants , while not taking a course at the institutions in our study , did take up courses at other institutions . |
| 15 | The current level of intelligence is so poor that over half the members of active service units on the mainland have no previous police or intelligence ‘ form ’ ( which is one reason why internment would not work ) . |
| 16 | A number of gentlemen raised their hands uncertainly and a gasp of surprise went up from the assembly as it became evident that almost all the food had been bought on Rayne 's behalf . |
| 17 | And contrary to Adorno — the more apparently homogeneous the product , the more important and potentially productive the role of reception , and of the mediations interposed between the two ( DJs , peer-group opinion , subcultural appropriation , use-situation , and so on ) . |
| 18 | Others before Frank Kermode , in his suave and erudite but ultimately acidulous The Classic ( New York , 1975 ) , had protested that as a framework inside which real political decisions and actions could be taken , Eliot 's Virgilian-Dantesque perspective was not just useless but dangerous . |
| 19 | Extensive remains of the foundations of such temples make it relatively easy to establish their plan , but reconstruction of the superstructure is more speculative as almost all the walls and trabeation have disappeared . |
| 20 | Of course nobody no that 's not fair and then all the time he keeps coming back to this issue . |
| 21 | We must fill our minds with the utmost of irrelevant information so that things we look at will remind us of other things and the more distant and more ridiculous the analogy , the higher the chance of the idea being really valuable . |
| 22 | You know , if we had something too patterned or too dark the wood wo n't |
| 23 | ‘ It is true that practically all the world 's 500–600 active volcanoes — someone may have bothered to count them , I have n't — are located along convergent plate boundaries . |