Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rangers jumping from a helicopter and spreading out in this same way , a little over-confident as many American soldiers tended to be , hyped up by TV and movie images to believe in their innate superiority . |
| 2 | The structure can be stabilised by a triangulation that is most economic when symmetrical and evolves into the familiar forms of roof trusses , bridges , arches and vaulting . |
| 3 | They have probably been more widely used than any other book in the private devotions of Anglicans . |
| 4 | The scrutiny approach is also arguably unsuitable where quick decisions are needed or where inefficiency arises from the inability of departmental staff rather than deficient procedures or systems ( see Bray , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 5 | Gooseberries , for example , can be picked for cooking or processing when they are still hard and green , flowers are often cut while still in bud and many roots or salad crops are at their most palatable when young and tender . |
| 6 | After the user requirement had been produced , and the options for system development had been considered , it was agreed that it would be most cost-effective if suitable applications software could be identified , which would also reduce the time required for installation . |
| 7 | Since they look a little strange when X-Rayed , security may open your case to see what it is you have in there . |
| 8 | Clay particles are most cohesive than other soils and deter the pressurising of trapped water , while fine sands are the easiest to liquefy . |
| 9 | And the poser 's dead embarrassed because this other boy knows him and he 's just spotted him trying to get off with a girl in a shop , not his sort of style at all , and he blushes all over , scarlet , even his ears , I noticed the ears . |
| 10 | The term ‘ Third World ’ came to seem rather outmoded as developing countries divided into many different characters and degrees of prosperity . |
| 11 | And the consequences of a latter approach could lead to accumulative change in the appearance and nature and character of the countryside so that you get something rather different than most people 's perception of a countryside being there for its own sake . |
| 12 | Although aggression under these circumstances is ritualised and hence harmless , the situation is rather different if one of the crabs has no shell . |
| 13 | Before Cowley could voice his astonished irritation at that complacent comment , Hogan hurried on , ‘ It would have been altogether different if this Doyle of yours had died , believe me . |
| 14 | So deliver them it does , in a political forum as intensely commercial as any private-sector marketplace . |
| 15 | Inveterate controllers are rarely adequate as physical lovers , unable to let go or risk too much excitement . |
| 16 | Something ( like the weather ) will have to go badly wrong if this is not to be another extremely profitable season for the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 17 | If using a large specimen plant the tank will generally look less contrived if this is place just off-centre . |
| 18 | Why do you think that direct file organization is less used than some other file organization techniques ? |
| 19 | She is the Blackrag Madonna , and her prophecies are madder , darker and less coherent than those of the wildest shamen two levels up . |
| 20 | She was extremely destructive when left alone . |
| 21 | not so tall as all that |
| 22 | In general the smaller libraries were more preoccupied with just achieving ‘ more ’ training , and were usually much less specific than larger libraries : |
| 23 | The conductor , who has overall charge of the train , was less friendly than most . |
| 24 | Staff were more likely to be reduced to selling snacks during break , which was much less profitable than computing services and much more demeaning for academics . |
| 25 | Less concentrated than this author 's other books , this text contains much insight . |
| 26 | No one familiar with the performance of domestic industry in most countries outside and some inside the First World would be surprised by this but , even so , one might wonder why the figures for local sourcing are quite so low when local materials and components are available . |
| 27 | Despite taking two bites , the implementation of the Directives was achieved with less trauma than in some other member States whose existing requirements were less advanced than those of the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | However , at the time of writing it is not clear how the new structure will work in practice , especially since RENFE 's systems for determining costs of services appear to be less advanced than those used by BR . |
| 29 | Looking at his map , and thinking of such men — men who were much less resilient than those to whom a more evangelical and dogmatic faith appealed — Daniel Byrne thought of Peter Bouverie . |
| 30 | I 'd be so grateful if that were still an acceptable fee . |