Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever an estate agent 's political leanings , professionally each and every one must be expressing surprise , delight and relief , ’ said Sir Glen Hickman , marketing director of Humberts . |
| 2 | ‘ Better that than a coffin , ’ he whispered , adding as he leaned in to retrieve his fiddle : ‘ And if my coffin is half as comfortable ‘ t is a smooth journey I 'll be having to Paradise . ’ |
| 3 | It has mass , but so little that the nucleus has some 99.99 per cent of the weight of an atom . |
| 4 | There was also the practical reason to provide convincing reasons why so many men were possessed of so little or no assessable ‘ substance ’ , and in the subsidy to justify the assessments of wages which only became effective in the absence of taxable goods , and , moreover , masters were responsible for the payment of their servants ' taxes . |
| 5 | Quencher centres : where even the excited state of the centre is close to a radiationless transition level , so little or no luminescence is emitted . |
| 6 | It is also important to remember that where jobs are indeed a problem , as in Ireland , postgraduate research positions should be clearly seen as making a major contribution to employment — where else would employment cost so little and the employee undergo intensive training ? |
| 7 | Not only that but a collective bargain is a method of suppressing individual differences between workers . |
| 8 | Not only that but a change in methods of working , in its ethos and what were seen as its privileges , such as index-linked pensions , was to follow . |
| 9 | Not only that but a drought in Maharashtra in 1987 and 1988 , probably the most severe of the century in the subcontinent , has caused barely a ripple of news interest in the world . |
| 10 | Not only that but the Board predicted that with its second station it could improve substantially on the Sizewell performance , setting British construction times and operating records among the best in the world . |
| 11 | Not only that but the decline of capitalism was of such a character each step taken represented a positive move in the direction of socialism . |
| 12 | Not only that but the din caused by , among others , a small group of drummers , who always seem to arrive at various major sporting fixtures in Brazil , hardly helped either . |
| 13 | Not only that but the receptionist may control access to individuals within the organisation and hence play an important role as ‘ gatekeeper ’ to the organisation . |
| 14 | However , better this than the alternative , ‘ Dookeepent-arch ’ , which means ‘ Please , let's never see each other again ’ . |
| 15 | There were very few lone parents on the books at that time : so few that no separate statistics were kept of their numbers . |
| 16 | Run-up is conducted at 1800 rpm , but the instruments and controls are so few that the pre-take-off checks are minimal . |
| 17 | Only this and the hissing of the wind . |
| 18 | ‘ Like everywhere else we have tightened our belt so much that every pound has to be accounted for , ’ he explained . |
| 19 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 20 | The present danger is perhaps not so much that an honest trustee may be unfairly penalized as that a dishonest trustee may with impunity inflict loss on the beneficiaries . |
| 21 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 22 | The problem is to produce a high quality insulator , without heating the substrate so much that the substrate itself suffers . |
| 23 | It is not so much that the culture of masculine honour is a sublimation of homosexuality , ; rather masculine honour repeatedly incites what , heterosexually , it presupposes but can not admit . |
| 24 | The Chinese used their belts so much that the metal buckle came off . |
| 25 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 26 | I think the cut-out must have no plant form then , it should be earthy or an old withered tree trunk or some such — because the dancers personify Spring so much that the stage should represent the earth . |
| 27 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 28 | It owed so much that The Saturday Review on three occasions said that it should be ruled ‘ out of court ’ . |
| 29 | The issue is not so much that the LDDC was unwilling to effect democratic procedures with elected authorities in the early to mid-1980s , but rather ( as is discussed below ) that the policies proposed by the LDDC were different from those agreed by local government , and that co-operation would simply have proved impossible . |
| 30 | In general , though , it was not so much that the Radburn approach was questioned , but more perhaps that the densities at which it was increasingly being applied were inappropriate . |