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 .
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