Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] in [adj] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lancashire county council — my highway authority — is especially interested in that and I hope that it will be reassured by that part of the Bill . |
| 2 | The learning outcomes in these modules have so much in common that it seems inappropriate to have three teachers teaching them in three separate classrooms . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll be much comfier in those and it does n't matter how messy they get . ’ |
| 4 | Caretaker wondered if there was something in the syntax of the Welsh language which made this sort of construction more acceptable in Welsh than it was in English . |
| 5 | A recent parliamentary answer that drew on the Government 's own resources revealed that the Royal Navy was more modern in 1979 than it is in 1991 . |
| 6 | Erm not necessarily no but er yes that that is partly important in that if it 's not there you ca n't use it . |
| 7 | Without the ERM , countries could competitively devalue their currencies : that would prove as inflationary in future as it has in the past , and it would give rise to the sort of trade frictions that plague the relationship between America and Japan , or worse . |
| 8 | Given their experience of the remote jargon of their teacher training , and of the demonstrable lack of impact of the pundits on education , as well as their weariness and preoccupation , it is entirely understandable that teachers should be turned off ideas at least as much in 1989 as they were twenty-five years ago : understandable but a mistake , as I am trying to argue . |
| 9 | IF CORPORATE governance and the virtues or vices of free financial markets had been agonised over as much in 1985 as they are now , continental Europe would have ruined many of the most popular and simplistic conclusions . |
| 10 | ‘ I know exactly how you feel , because I 'm as innocent in this as you are . |
| 11 | The stock of these means of production was 2½ times as great in 1973 as it was in 1952 . |
| 12 | Even without tolls , country roads are likely to be three times as busy in 2025 as they are today . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , Cooper could be just as difficult in private as he was in public , and Richardson moved out in 1960 . |
| 14 | Opposition to Home Rule was put on ice for the duration with the Bill , but opposition was as genuine in 1918 as it had been in 1914 . |
| 15 | In the case of the APT , the approach is diametrically opposite in that although it derives a causal relationship , it does not identify the determinant factors . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd be quite interested in that but I ca n't see it happening here . |
| 17 | Like everyone else , I became equally at home with both systems , and I was doubly fortunate in that while I was still a student the metric system changed from being ‘ cgs ’ based ( centimetres , grams , seconds ) to ‘ MKS ’ based ( Metres , Kilograms , Seconds ) . |
| 18 | And er we were quite fortunate in this cos I went , had to go to a meeting in Sheffield and I had n't realized in advance but at this meeting the people at the meeting were asked to give recommendations as to what priorities should be given in terms of awarding the bids . |
| 19 | The birth control methods most commonly used by working class families were as readily available in 1870 as they were in 1950 . |
| 20 | The most pessimistic viewpoint is that the brains of different groups of mammals have very little in common because they evolved separately from a common ancestral form in which the brain was relatively formless , lacking the distinctive sub-divisions that can be identified in the brains of modern mammals . |
| 21 | On the face of it , she and Prince Charles had very little in common when they re-met in 1979 . |