Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 2 | However , independent agents were much less likely to plug the three main tour-operators . |
| 3 | However , independent agents were much less likely to plug the three main tour-operators . |
| 4 | It is perhaps more appropriate to regard the personal/subjective and objective forms of discourse merely as different forms of textual practice : putting " voice " into text is just a stylistic convention . |
| 5 | For this reason , it is often much more effective to press the different parts of the spray individually and then reconstruct them once they have been pressed . |
| 6 | However , since joint production and ( more clearly ) joint marketing is much more likely to create the undesirable anticompetitive effects which cause concern than joint R&D is , it seems reasonable to insist that firms which propose extending joint activities beyond R&D must bear the burden of proving that such extensions are in the public interest . |
| 7 | Generally speaking , however , novelists are much more likely to celebrate the domestic virtues that , given half a chance , the working class can be expected to display ; and , in order to produce that image , a certain amount of cleaning-up goes on . |
| 8 | However , it is much more likely to produce the correct answer , even if this answer is one of several alternatives . |
| 9 | This makes it much more plausible to condemn the malevolent shepherd , on Kant 's behalf , for he is employing means which are themselves inhumane , albeit for a humane end . |
| 10 | But it is much more satisfactory to angle the basic release to suit the readership or audiences of the various media groups . |
| 11 | Another point to be remembered in this connection is that an examiner is much more willing to give the first 50 per cent . |
| 12 | Thirdly , the debates over how far to forge a strategy either for winning power or for promoting economic development in a post-revolutionary society have not been satisfactorily resolved , and indeed perhaps can not be , given that counter-revolutionary response to any successful formula will ensure that it will be that much more difficult to apply the same tactics in another situation . |
| 13 | The fact that you can see as well as hear means that it is much more difficult to make the whole thing credible . |
| 14 | There is a real danger that the kind of compulsive behaviour described by Neil Frude and others will become much more widespread given the massive increase in personal computing unless we alter our image of the subject and give the social skills necessary greater emphasis . . |
| 15 | A well planned approach to obtaining finance , supported by the appropriate documentation , is not only more likely to achieve the required finance , it also puts the sponsor in a stronger position when negotiating with the potential source of finance . |
| 16 | Let it not be spoke by of the system that during the period of as for exercise it was nice cold weather a public warning had been and so far this uses the same apartment every evening at prayer time and there selfish mind work a general publication for boys contain a special clause by authority of the board in which they repeatedly made good , virtuous , protected , obedient as regarded to a the powers of wickedness as an article direct from |
| 17 | Another aspect of this crisis presumably is the lack of resources to keep the prison officers sufficiently materially satisfied to defuse the industrial relations problem in the prison . |
| 18 | I shall be only too pleased to fight the next election on the basis of the record on law and order and to show that we have a very much better record than the last Labour Government . |
| 19 | Their return to Leith on the ‘ Saint Andrew ’ was just as uncomfortable as the journey out and Corbett was only too pleased to feel the firm ground of the quayside beneath him . |
| 20 | It is only too easy to isolate the hectic emotionalism and artificial situations in the Chandos novels at the expense of their considerable virtues as thrillers , ingeniously varied in scene and skilful in the use of pace and tension . |
| 21 | Early morning coffee in the Ardrishaig Hotel helped find the holiday people with car only too happy to take the big rucksack to Crinan . |
| 22 | Most will be only too happy to supply the aspiring builder with the glass he requires . |
| 23 | Finally they let her go — the mother convinced that a boggle had possessed her daughter and only too glad to see the last of her , the father , heartbroken , soon to submit to an illness which his former self would have beaten off quite easily . |
| 24 | And again , when reporting on the A & B Foursomes in January 1969 , he started as follows : ‘ There must be an increased number of wives who are convinced that there is a special weather dispensation for Harpsden , or it may be , of course , that many of them are only too glad to get the old man out of the house for a few hours on a wet Sunday . ’ |
| 25 | For example , you might have a puppet say ‘ they 're much too stupid to leave the blue bottles alone ’ — a clue which will help the adventurers avoid the poisons in location 79 . |
| 26 | Such models are much too simple to describe the complex viscoelastic behaviour of a polymer , nor do they provide any real insight into the molecular mechanism of the process , but in certain instances they can prove useful in assisting the understanding of the viscoelastic process . |
| 27 | Having said all this , there were still those who wondered if it was not all too easy to confuse the eternal with the transitory . |
| 28 | It is all too easy to emphasize the positive image , the tales of success . |
| 29 | It is all too easy to forget the sheer number of songs the man has written that have become pop standards , most of which were included in the two-hour show . |
| 30 | And she can strike as all too keen to play the introverted sensitive soul , cloaking herself in black and describing Baudelaire and Nerval , some of whose poems provide a decadent counterpoint to the Bible in her music , as ‘ blood brothers ’ . |