Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bigger country , not one tight little prejudiced clapped out topheavy society , less breathing down one 's neck . |
| 2 | Improved diet would have reduced death rates primarily because well fed people are better able to fight off infectious disease . |
| 3 | It seems that these obligations were found more likely to stir up serious friction within families than to rally family help . |
| 4 | But the strategy of working alongside is more likely to bring about significant change in professional thinking and classroom practice , because the partners have no alternative but to confront questions of planning and organization , and hence to explore each other 's ideas . |
| 5 | Even when children care desperately for their elderly parents and have to put them in a home because of lack of personal resources , they are not always able to keep up regular contact because of moving to find employment . |
| 6 | It is also important to carry out regular water changes — do n't forget to make adjustments with additional salt . |
| 7 | The British regarded it as essential to win over Arab opinion by promising postwar independence for Syria and Lebanon ; de Gaulle regarded this as British colonialist meddling in French affairs , and when the British tried to issue a declaration promising independence in their own name as well as Free France 's , he objected that the future of French mandates was none of Britain 's business . |
| 8 | On the motorway the Safrane rides excellently and is well able to flatten out long amplitude undulation while being equally successful at suppressing smaller bumps , such as expansion joints . |
| 9 | But malaria was only regionally important and the drug too expensive to give in sufficient dosage ( McKeown and Brown 1955 , Hobhouse 1985 ) . |