Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Annie was so solid and content , she was like a shiny red apple . |
| 32 | Peel-off masks are more gentle but less cleansing than clay . |
| 33 | Copper in contrast was not durable enough for big editions , and where its effects were desired it was increasingly replaced by steel ; but this was much less used than wood for works of science . |
| 34 | He did not refer to anything so vulgar as payment , of course , because the Gnomes would not expect it . |
| 35 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 36 | I think now that I need not have been so prim and stand-offish , but I was afraid to wound him further by giving him what might possibly be taken for false ‘ encouragement ’ . |
| 37 | Clouds enveloping mountain-tops and coastal fogs are usually characterized by pH values much lower than rainfall ( Bridgman , 1990 ) . |
| 38 | Research showed that primary community loyalties operated at a level much lower than district boundaries . |
| 39 | The actual death rate from asthma in West Cumbria seems to be much lower than mortality statistics suggest . |
| 40 | For instance , trees bearing edible fruits were made easy to climb , being much lower than forest trees . |
| 41 | For later generations , however , the chances of getting work on leaving school were much lower and access to higher education and housing has also changed . |
| 42 | We may say , then , that line A is less precise , less specific than line B. Line A is not swallowed up in line B , however ; it is not the case that once we have line B we can dispense with line A. Rather , line B provides the clue or the context within which the uncertainty of line A is resolved . |
| 43 | Better that than discretion and gentle kindliness . |
| 44 | CONTRARY to reports in certain sections of the media , the Royal Bank 's customer care policy is still very much alive and jumping . |
| 45 | These fears are especially strong where man himself might become directly involved . |
| 46 | ‘ I find the Spanish terribly emotional where music is concerned . |
| 47 | Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself , making it rather like the surface of the earth . |
| 48 | What really happens during the very early or late stages of the universe , when gravitational fields are so strong that quantum effects can not be ignored ? |
| 49 | However , what the singularity theorems really indicate is that the gravitational field becomes so strong that quantum gravitational effects become important : classical theory is no longer a good description of the universe . |
| 50 | But , as indicated above , the real importance of the singularity theorems was that they showed that the gravitational field must become so strong that quantum gravitational effects could not be ignored . |
| 51 | Even before IRCA , the ties between Mexican workers and the American labour market were so strong that migration was bound to increase . |
| 52 | His desire to have me visit him is so strong that charity will not let me refuse . |
| 53 | The gravitational field of the singularity would be so strong that light could not escape from the region around it but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 54 | She stared up at him , touched to tears by his thoughtfulness , he had come into her life such a short time ago and yet he had been so good to her , so strong and kind . |
| 55 | The situation is much simpler where software is written for and at the request of a client . |
| 56 | Her eyes were so wide-set and widely-opened that they consumed half her face in a dazzling pool of greenish-blue radiance . |
| 57 | Naturally this crisp geometrical profile becomes softened and less perceptible as scoria cones grow older and are subjected to the normal processes of erosion . |
| 58 | However , close examination of the external stonework , only possible when scaffolding had been erected , revealed the extent of necessary repairs had been underestimated , and the contract had to be extended to June 1991 . |
| 59 | Thirdly , a firm plan of subsequent treatment is often only possible when information has been gathered from the general practitioner , relatives , friends , and other involved agencies as well as the patient . |
| 60 | All this is only possible where multi-skilling and flexible skilling are the norm , rather than restrictive skill defensiveness . |