Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb base] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes it seemed that those who had profited most successfully form the bonanza that he Shah had unleashed were the first to go -with members of the Pahlavi dynasty leading the rush tot he exit .
2 The appropriate response , however , is not to alter the law so as to allow euthanasia , and thereby arguably undermine the respect for life enshrined both in the law and medical training .
3 On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score .
4 Most only need a small angle of bank , as the rudders on gliders are not very powerful .
5 The primary products in which the UK has most obviously become a net exporter are oil and gas .
6 It is certainly arguable ( and many progressive employers would agree ) that the wisest use of public money from a strictly economic point of view would be on schools , houses , and medical services , together with relevant training and measures to reduce discrimination ; in short , that the agencies which most obviously have the capacity to produce strategic planning of a business-friendly kind are precisely those which this pro-business administration wishes to bypass — central government departments , and local government , properly funded .
7 While mail order , trading checks and weekly credit callers or tallymen continue to be the forms of credit which most obviously meet the needs of those used to weekly budgeting , and to being paid weekly in cash , they are likely to continue to be the obvious choice for many such people — regardless of truth-in-lending regulations .
8 Right so have a look , .
9 People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another .
10 ‘ Since we 've got our captive financial expert at our mercy tonight , and since we so rarely have the pleasure of seeing him , should n't we demand a progress report ? ’
11 This is lost soon after laying commences in April or early May — which is a shame , because most people visit the sea-bird colonies in summer , and so rarely see a shag in all its glory .
12 All right wait a second , I 'm coming down .
13 So everything was all right alter a little while .
14 This applies to all disputes , but it is the territorial disputes with religious backgrounds that are causing so much suffering , and which so badly need a completely new criterion against which they can be judged .
15 So apparently have the majority of women .
16 In Wales , the Home Secretary can not distinguish a rural community from an urban community , much less appreciate the different policing needs of each .
17 Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact .
18 It did not so much reach a conclusion as slow down and dribble into silence , as though the players had got bored with the melody and let it slip through their fingers carelessly .
19 Satanic and necrophiliac obsessions , the meat and potatoes of death-metal , do n't so much take a back seat as miss the bus altogether thankfully .
20 Again , this did not so much represent a ‘ betrayal of socialist ideals ’ as a response to the evident absence of any developed thinking on the part of socialists as to how ‘ planning ’ should be conducted in a peacetime economy , without the overriding and generally agreed common objective of victory in war as the guiding principle and without the continuation of ‘ dictatorial ’ direction of labour .
21 In this case , although people were selective about which bits of the past they emphasized ( concentrating on state-renouncing ) , they did not so much reinterpret the past in the light of their present preoccupations ; rather , they polished an idealized account of rights , with their ancestors as heroes of duty .
22 Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process .
23 The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories .
24 The exception is , of course , in the pronouncement that shareholders have in effect surrendered their power to professional management , a pronouncement which does not so much face the central question of the rights of ownership as to try to pass it by .
25 The cost of transit necessarily restricts the development of these quarries , and the introduction of Railway communication would afford such facilities for despatch , and so much reduce the cost of delivery , that a large increase in the out-put [ sic ] of this mineral ( for which there is a constant demand ) would undoubtedly follow .
26 But one of the things , obvious at first , that , one of the first things about any kind of journalism apart from apart from , in your specialist journals and so on , is that they 're about newspapers are about people , so obviously get the people in and there 's a , a very good very good you 've got the person , you 've got you 've got you 've got someone in up at the top and saying something .
27 Why did British fiction so suddenly revive the conte philosophique in the years around the war 's ending , along with its fierce , diagrammatic crudities of tone and substance ?
28 But other than that , yes we did more or less all play the same games .
29 The study of Magritte 's art , long dependent upon Suzi Gablik 's short monograph completed in 1970 , has received a sharp boost with the publication of three new books , each of which serves a slightly different purpose but only together provide a comprehensive evaluation of the artist as he has been researched by David Sylvester and Sarah Whitfield .
30 In the fullerene-based superconductors , the intrinsic orientational disorder ( leading to a relatively high intrinsic resistivity or short mean free path ) , short coherence length and high T c together greatly extend the useful temperature range for measurement of the fluctuations and allow direct observation of the fluctuation phenomena in pure single crystals .
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