Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all the voices sing in unison , the sopranos have to sing rather low and the basses too high , so unison singing of the whole choir is seldom used . |
| 2 | The simile was so striking and no doubt so apt , and one that was so delightfully Eliotish , that I could not take offence , though a critical word from that quarter could deal a heavy blow to one 's morale . |
| 3 | Yet in a country where the pull of the past is so strong and the future so tantalising , it is best when you are travelling to live exclusively in the present . |
| 4 | However , this is only possible when the coach really knows the karateka . |
| 5 | The noise was so loud and the light so bright that he sat still as a stone . |
| 6 | By the third morning , however , I was so weak and the pain so unbearable that they had little difficulty in taking me up to the theatre and performing the necessary operation . |
| 7 | The sky was so clear and the stars so visible that the earth could almost be seen turning . |
| 8 | Modern avionics items exhibit such a variety of failure modes and are so reliable that the tradesman often forgets how he cured a particular type of fault when he experiences another of the same type . |
| 9 | One disadvantage of the change might be that the more precise moral distinctions currently incorporated within the law would become submerged within the sentencing discretion , where the signposts are less clear and the arguments less structured . |
| 10 | In no other religion are the stakes so high and the choice so momentous . ’ |
| 11 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |
| 12 | The creamy-white leaves are so conspicuous that the flowers hardly show up at all but the fragrance is breath-taking . |
| 13 | Where the terrain becomes so steep that the leader no longer has a reasonable likelihood of controlling a slide , then belays of some form should be taken for the seconds . |
| 14 | It is so much easier when the business actually comes through the letter box . |
| 15 | ‘ That speech in A Fish Called Wanda , about Americans being so free and the Brits so repressed is fundamental to John 's philosophy of life . |
| 16 | Gravity lightened so much that the trio almost felt afloat . |
| 17 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 18 | ‘ When you get really hungry you 'll be sorry you gave so much as a mouthful away . ’ |
| 19 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 20 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 21 | The wine mellowed the atmosphere between them , and Blanche felt less hurried than the week before to extract information from him . |
| 22 | On the buzzer I rolled over quite a large flathead , but it missed , and that was a fish much bigger than the flatheads both Kate and Ben were catching with great rapidity on fish portions . |
| 23 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 24 | Their mission was less ambitious than the day before : just to clear the air over the battlefield . |
| 25 | In his review of the content of US antitrust , he indicates some areas of policy where the decisions are now largely driven by sound economic analysis ( horizontal agreements and mergers ) and others where the basis for judgements is less satisfactory and the practice sometimes inconsistent ( vertical restraints and price discrimination ) . |
| 26 | Leonora made her bed then collected her cup and started downstairs , deeply thankful that she felt so much better than the day before . |
| 27 | The time is so long and the miles too . |
| 28 | THE overwhelming feeling one got of the exhibition on the Royal Mile Traffic Calming ( Phase One ) Project was one of disappointment — not because the problem is easy or unimportant but because the analyses are so shallow and the solutions so insignificant . |
| 29 | The whole connection is so slight that the legend only appears in tourist-orientated guide books of the twentieth century . |
| 30 | All this was extremely disturbing and the French desperately sought a new way to control Germany 's revival . |