Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typical whirring gamebird in flight , but much more often heard than seen . |
| 2 | Much more often heard than seen , uttering various clucking , grunting and miaouing notes , a singular loud harsh call beginning as a grunt and ending as a squeal , and several repeated monosyllables . |
| 3 | Much of the owner-occupation sector represents a recent addition to national wealth ; from 26.6 per cent in 1957 to 36.5 per cent of all wealth by 1985 — a 37 per cent increase in thirty years ( Sam Brittan , ‘ Keeping an eye on the national wealth ’ , Financial Times , 16 July 1987 ) , and this wealth has been much more equitably spread than has industrial wealth . |
| 4 | We are no longer so much nibbled as jostled . |
| 5 | They are also not usually recognized as having any significance by those responsible for statutory protection measures , particularly if they are suspected of having any connection with leys or other ‘ lunatic fringe ’ ideas . |
| 6 | They were also slightly more often diagnosed as suffering from alcoholism , schizophrenia , hysteria and chronic brain syndrome . |
| 7 | The consumers ' hints and suggestions , communicated over considerable distance and thereby often greatly distorted when realized by the manufacturers , resulted in changes in the cloth , which in turn prompted further comments . |
| 8 | The two component parts of Owen 's productive classes had been placed on the opposite sides of a divide ; and their separation into ‘ them and us ’ was now so far completed as to have become irreversible . |
| 9 | Despite the attempt to impose a rigid status system , the division between farmers and warriors was never as clear cut as intended . |