Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It is generally true to say that if the area is predominantly rural then the geographical extent of the restriction can sometimes be greater than if an urban area is under consideration . |
2 | Later , courses and social events help new parents cope with what can be the most exciting yet the most frightening time in most couple 's lives . |
3 | In the case of those groups which are less advanced today the process will take longer , but that is all the difference . ' |
4 | So sorry just a moment . |
5 | The latter , which seemed so strange even a few years ago , is now available as a result of our understanding of sign languages and of the developments in foreign spoken language learning . |
6 | Just seems so unrealistic though a kid would actually do that . |
7 | It was so different even the weir had been removed which means the river at this point is some three feet shallower than when I last fished it . |
8 | But the magistrates said French had flouted the court order and his record — of sixty five convictions for animal cruelty — was so serious only a prison sentence was appropriate . |
9 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
10 | One key issue back in November the Skelton and Brotton Hospital will not be so prominent now the Northern Regional Health Authority has confirmed the site . |
11 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
12 | As social engineering is highly suspect then the only way that the HIDB can be accepted is through an economic development programme . |
13 | Beep in the ear is so important just a second ago , because if we had this on , busy on the phone , and the next caller comes through , because it was my phone , those calls would go through to Hilary , so I would n't get a beep in the ear would I ? |
14 | It looks to my lay eye extremely impressive yet the eerie fact remains that it engages missiles when they are only 2 or 3 seconds away from hitting a ship . |
15 | Dickinson said : ‘ I knew a pilot who had cold feet one minute and was extremely hot indeed the next . ’ |
16 | The Central Market clinic was only open twice a week and , in common with the entire public health service , medicines were almost non-existent . |
17 | McLuhan was enormously popular and apparently influential only a few years ago , since when it has been commonplace to pick out many of the absurdities and contradictions of his thought . |
18 | ‘ The world is crumbling around me , Wilson , ’ she said , the words so faint only a finely attuned ear could have heard them . |
19 | Even if she said so herself , she was barely recognisable as the young woman who 'd been so distraught just a short while ago . |
20 | Paradoxically it was not quite so bad now the invaders had arrived . |
21 | More widely within society , it is argued , competitive individualism challenges collectivism ; the provision of services through the state is abandoned in favour of privatization so expanding again the sphere of potential profit-making . |
22 | End-user requests for support and problem resolution can easily bog-down even the most efficient of departments . |
23 | If on the other hand the form of division of labour within enterprises is not homogeneous then the concept of ‘ division by strata ’ must be more nebulous and approximate . |
24 | not ideal so we say to you it 's not ideal so the supervisor , so you have to say to , this has got ta be sorted , this is not ideal , this is n't gon na work when you 're not here . |
25 | Secondly , computer mapping allows the user to experiment ; if the final product is not satisfactory then the labour involved in redrafting the map is negligible in comparison with manual methods . |
26 | ‘ I am not sure about every minute . |
27 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
28 | If the fit is not good then the parameters of the model are adjusted until a good match between real and simulated observations is found . |
29 | If the algorithm is not admissible then the decision to end the search is fairly arbitrary . |
30 | If parents are not married only the mother has legal responsibility for a child , unless the father has obtained a court order or [ after October 1991 ] the couple have formally agreed that they should both have parental responsibility . |