Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [that] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such brief ‘ thumb-nail ’ sketches do give some indication of the essence of sociology , but ultimately it is both necessary and perhaps more fruitful to emphasise that the most important and distinctive feature of sociology is not so much what is studied but how it is studied , i.e. it is important to indicate what is the particular perspective of sociology , its distinct way of looking at the individual and society . |
| 2 | It seems much more reasonable to suggest that the speaker is indicating a readiness to be friendly and to talk . |
| 3 | Knowing how radio sets are typically organized we would be much more likely to conclude that the whole circuit was working incorrectly . |
| 4 | But to the Lamarckians it seemed much more natural to assume that the wasting away of an individual 's eyes when there was no light would be passed on to the next generation , resulting in a rapid loss of eyesight in the whole population . |
| 5 | By emphasising style of leadership and the importance of human relations , it is all too easy to forget that a manager is primarily responsible for ensuring that tasks are done efficiently and effectively . |
| 6 | It is all too easy to find that the only properly planned meetings are the ones at which exchange of contracts and completion take place and those are meetings which are usually orchestrated by the solicitors acting for the buyer and the seller . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , if a creditor , with grounds for suspecting that a company is in financial difficulties , makes a search he is all too likely to find that no recent annual returns or accounts have been filed . |
| 8 | In attempting to help users in searching automated catalogues , it is perhaps too easy to assume that the machine must do it all and that the burden must be removed entirely from the user . |
| 9 | It is perhaps too idealistic to suggest that the process of ageing should be dealt with during childhood , but it is certainly during these years that the basis of ageism becomes rooted in us and thereafter affects the way we approach our own old age . |
| 10 | Cardiff was now somehow not surprised to find that the sound of the man 's voice was familiar — even though they had never met before . |
| 11 | Also , where Newco is acquiring a business , it seems it is no longer strictly necessary to ensure that the shares the managers subscribe in Newco confer control after the institutions have invested , so long as they confer control before then , assuming in this scenario that the managers invest well before the institutions and before the institutions are committed to investing . |
| 12 | While dependence on American assistance in 1964 – 65 might seem to have left the British government dangerously exposed to American influence ( or even dictation ) , in practice it is just as reasonable to argue that the Wilson government was able to turn American self-interest to its own advantage . |
| 13 | It is just as important to ensure that the contact names , addresses and phone numbers are included on captions as on releases . |
| 14 | It may mean ‘ The Spirit of God has made me ’ , but in view of the parallel ‘ and the breath of the Almighty gives me life ’ it is just as likely to mean that the Spirit is the animating principle of life . |
| 15 | As a species , rock journalists are often dedicated free spirits , either too young or just too immature to believe that the normal responsibilities of life — good manners , for instance — might apply to them . |
| 16 | As long as shareholders are principally distant institutions , it will become ever more important to ensure that the annual auditing of accounts is done in as independent and thorough a way as possible ; if shareholders wished , that audit could then be extended into more general strategic matters . |
| 17 | It is much more nearly true to say that no two patients ever show exactly the same constellation of symptoms . |
| 18 | It is also not uncommon to find that the projection used to map a particular phenomenon is altered from time to time . |
| 19 | It was also quite prepared to acknowledge that the Messiah was not a pacific , ethereal , lamb-like saviour , but a rightful and wrathful king , a political and military leader presiding not over any nebulous kingdom of heaven , but over very real terrestrial domains . |
| 20 | Yet it is also too much to hope that an improved economy will miraculously turn this prime minister into a leader . |
| 21 | In retrospect , it is now rather easier to see that the cases made for the identification of structural change at the beginning of the 1970s were exaggerated or , at least , rather premature . |
| 22 | Considering the rifeness of disease , the poverty and the malnutrition prevalent there , and all the medical aid available here , it is even more surprising to discover that the continued life expectancy of a forty-year-old British or US citizen is not considerably greater than that of an Indian who has survived childhood and reached the age of forty . |
| 23 | It is even more unexpected to find that the two alternative explanations are completely different from one another . |
| 24 | It was perhaps even more alarming to learn that the Distant Early Warning System , the chain of radar stations ringing the Soviet Union from Greenland to Alaska , had more than once given the alarm which put Strategic Air Command into the air en route to the target thanks to picking up a moon echo or a flock of geese migrating in formation . |
| 25 | It would be even more fanciful to claim that the animal has plans . |
| 26 | After recent mass arrests and tortures in Beijing , it has become even more difficult to claim that the government is unaware of the excesses committed in Lhasa . |
| 27 | It was difficult to believe that the boxes had been removed , then replaced and even more difficult to credit that a match from either of the chained boxes had been struck , then carried lit and precariously flickering into the Little Vestry and used to burn the diary . |
| 28 | It was simply too demeaning to believe that the experience we had shared had been dependent on such things as the amount of booze Dennis put away that lunchtime . |
| 29 | With the realignment in British politics , it is no longer satisfactory to consider that a ‘ left-wing newspaper ’ will tip the balance towards some notional idea of equality or fairness in Fleet St/Wapping . |
| 30 | Their efforts may be too little too late to ensure that the Pearl maintains its independence . |