Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [adj] [noun] of " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | If you have followed the advice and tried the exercises you will understand a little better the basic skills of studying History . |
| 5 | ‘ But we do want to create a pattern of rent differentials that will reflect rather better the relative values of different houses and flats . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times . |
| 8 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The problem was not so much the offensive content of the material , since there was no one who was not familiar with it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At the moment publishers fear not so much the literary efforts of retiring politicians but those of MPs who have lost their seats . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Much better the last couple of days . ’ |
| 18 | He marched purposefully down the central aisle of the ward until he found the sister . |
| 19 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 20 | Johnson 's account pauses at the Fall of Fiers , today called Foyers , a little more than halfway down the south-eastern length of the Loch . |
| 21 | So long the sick man of Europe , it is now not only dead but hung , drawn and quartered . |
| 22 | I mean , some and some of the issues are , perhaps not the main issue of the story , but er , are sort of peripheral , if I can use that word , on the , on the edge , like identified weight as a problem , which a lot of middle aged women seem to encounter and get obsessed by it , but actually , the weight thing there , but the central thing is the relationship between the husband and wife , and the weight issue is sort of , I do n't know , tied up with it , but it it was n't the main issue . |
| 23 | During Teotihuaca/n times in the Veracruz wetlands there may have been occasional impounding of swamp water late in the dry season but perhaps not the sustained maintenance of water levels as happened in the chinampas . |
| 24 | Yet signs are not wanting that the mental effort of doing so is one which will become more and more difficult as the memory of the distinct courts of Law and Equity dies out ; and perhaps already the unified jurisdiction of the High Court , and the statutes which have codified certain branches of Common Law and Equity , have produced some results which could hardly have been given by any combination of proceedings in the separate courts , or by the development of the law solely by means of cases decided in them . |
| 25 | Against that are moments when he strays too far from the printed note in striving for that extra frisson of feeling and resorts to a delivery that stays only just the right side of being coarse . |
| 26 | This is much more the stereotyped picture of middle-class coffee mornings , flower arranging , and other ‘ feminine ’ cultural activities . |
| 27 | After rising and saying his prayers , the poet should retire to his study and … engage in the study of the ancillary sciences : lexicography , metrics and so forth The second quarter of the day should be devoted to poetic composition … |
| 28 | ( 3 ) Why did the universe start out with so nearly the critical rate of expansion that separates models that recollapse from those that go on expanding forever , so that even now , ten thousand million years later , it is still expanding at nearly the critical rate ? |
| 29 | Perhaps also the rare outbreaks of parasitic bronchitis in houses calves are associated with the dispersal of L3 by Pilobolus growing in the dung of adjacent infected cattle . |
| 30 | The OR Staff are quite rightly intent on seeking battle-winning performance ; the scientists and technologists enjoy and rise to the challenge ; and so both the principal groups of participants in equipment development are pushing in the same direction without an effective countervailing force . |