Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Lou Cannon , ‘ Most importantly the near destruction of the parties had created a star system of personality politics long before television had arrived . |
| 2 | ‘ Right down the other end of the pipe , please , ’ said Gurder . |
| 3 | He remembers most warmly the lively discussions in the Men 's Bible Class , the chief spokesman being Mr John George McCann who , with his family , for many years gave skilled and professional help with the harvest decorations . |
| 4 | When her aunt was dressed she walked slowly down the narrow staircase in front of her in case , in her weak state , she should stumble . |
| 5 | ‘ Surprisingly ’ because it is the large American universities that typify most obviously the apparent disintegration of the academic community into a multitude of discrete disciplinary cultures . |
| 6 | If you have followed the advice and tried the exercises you will understand a little better the basic skills of studying History . |
| 7 | He peered uneasily down the dark tunnel at the end of the platform and remembered something else from their past : Mother Bernie and her holes in the universe , the holes that let the Evil in . |
| 8 | ‘ But we do want to create a pattern of rent differentials that will reflect rather better the relative values of different houses and flats . |
| 9 | Since this heat transfer will occur only slowly the maximum uplift of the passive margin would probably occur as long as 60 Ma after rifting ; this contrasts with the non-uniform extension model in which uplift takes place concurrently with stretching and rifting . |
| 10 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 11 | Perhaps only the first Test between New Zealand and South Africa in 1952–53 can rank with it , when each side had four players whose surname started with the letter M. South Africa had McGlew , McLean , Murray and Mansell , while the New Zealanders fielded Meuli , Miller , Mooney and Moir . |
| 12 | It is apparently only the second exhibition on her life and work . |
| 13 | And so this is something that is going to touch an awful lot of people if it does turn sour , so all the more reason for me to be able to explain how I see it , and as I say , to hear how , what people think about the crisis . |
| 14 | So all the more thanks for Question Time ( BBC 1 ) , showing simultaneously on the other side , in which Mr Baker had no choice but to sit opposite Arthur Scargill and John Smith , all marshalled impartially by Peter Sissons , controversially and expensively replacing Sir Robin Day . |
| 15 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 16 | So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times . |
| 17 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 18 | The revised figures were unlikely to satisfy the Opposition , much less the foreign bankers on whom Britain depended for her rescue from imminent bankruptcy . |
| 19 | It is not so much the Western origin of new component technologies as their gestation in the West 's civilian sectors which must pose the most vexing questions for Soviet policy makers and their orthodoxies . |
| 20 | The influence of all three is perceptible in Nicholas Shakespeare 's first novel , though it is not so much the magical flights of Marquez as Greene 's Catholic mysticism which I found the most intriguing . |
| 21 | It may be that what we are protecting children from is not so much the awful consequences of their ignorant decisions but of the burden of responsibility for those decisions which children are not yet ready to bear and which , for entirely non-political reasons , we can not choose to impose upon them . |
| 22 | The problem was not so much the offensive content of the material , since there was no one who was not familiar with it . |
| 23 | ‘ She was on edge , talking not so much the hind leg off a donkey as off an African elephant . |
| 24 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 25 | The key to success in collecting information , however , is not so much the organizational ability of the clearinghouses , but the confidence of the librarians that their information and experience will be disseminated carefully , effectively , and , sometimes , with discretion . |
| 26 | But the fact remains that what tends to distinguish one interpretation of the Tenth Symphony from another is not so much the moment-by-moment characterization as the pacing of dramatic structure . |
| 27 | At the moment publishers fear not so much the literary efforts of retiring politicians but those of MPs who have lost their seats . |
| 28 | Interestingly , the gravamen of the offence was not so much the likely effect on Distillers as the perceived effect on the administration of justice generally if such comment were allowed . |
| 29 | What was probably most important to such an audience was not so much the unlikely explanation of a phenomenon as its very mention , reducing fears of the unknown and of apparently inexplicable events such as changes in female physiology during pregnancy . |
| 30 | To repeat , these days it is hard to recapture the innovative and radical character of variable analysis since it is now so much the orthodox conception of what social research consists in . |