Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humour is very subtle in ‘ Great Expectations ’ as more often than not Dickens will just use parts of the language wittily rather than the obvious physical humour surrounding Pumblechook . |
| 2 | These cells respond most vigorously when a combination of wavelengths is used for the illumination , and the area of the stimulus is seen as strongly coloured by human observers . |
| 3 | Theda 's smile went a little awry as the memories pierced her . |
| 4 | After considerable discussion Mr Jones accepted the possibility that Olwyn perhaps did need love and attention but that it was just as likely she needed it because she behaved badly rather than the other way round . |
| 5 | I just hung grimly on because the salary was magnificent . |
| 6 | Most gliders are very reluctant to stall in the slip ( try it some time ) , but if the recovery is made at a low speed , or the pilot forgets to ease forwards to prevent the nose rising during the recovery , there is a very real danger of stalling or of flying rather slowly as the glider encounters the wind gradient . |
| 7 | I like the books , the original books that I had when I was a little rather than the new books . |
| 8 | But it is true that Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis come into their own most forcibly when the ball , one side at least , is slightly worn . |
| 9 | Arguably only if the Library Association failed to take disciplinary action against its members for not putting professional loyalty and practice above employers ' decisions would the Code be discredited — as a paper tiger . |
| 10 | The anarchic and the political , the anger and the boredom , are all active in Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic , and most especially when the survival strategies of subordination — subterfuge , lying , evasion — are aesthetically transvalued into weapons of attack , but ever working obliquely through irony , ambiguity , mimicry , and impersonation . |
| 11 | The terms ‘ stiff-necked ’ , ‘ tight-lipped ’ , ‘ pain in the neck ’ and so on are part of common everyday usage , and indicate something rather deeper than a simple muscle tension problem . |
| 12 | But the issue penetrates , or ought to , rather deeper than the fine weave of legal technicality . |
| 13 | I have seen cross-breed exotic Goldfish that are cute , but rarely better than the original parents . |
| 14 | There should be evidence of the selected strategies being used properly eg if an analytical approach is being used for finding the minimum surface area of a container , while investigating containers , it would be expected that the steps of the process were correct . |
| 15 | I think that this Earthwatch expedition could contribute invaluably to my professional development , most obviously because the Maternal Health in Africa project fits so perfectly with my interests and future hopes of becoming a midwife . |
| 16 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 17 | But Alice 's mood : little better than a sulk , and behaving as if it were everyone 's fault but her own … |
| 18 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 19 | ‘ You accused me of being little better than a thief , a cheat , as though I 'd masterminded it all just to hurt you . |
| 20 | This means that a 50MHz 486 performs only a little better than a 16MHz 286 if you are only doing simple word-processing . |
| 21 | How dare you , miss , turn the Feathers into little better than a bawdy-house ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll feel stronger a damn sight faster if I move around a bit , ’ he threw at her in a voice little better than a snarl . |
| 23 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 24 | There was no such difference on a recognition memory task where , if anything , the control group did a little better than the group given distinctiveness training . |
| 25 | Only 77 per cent of children enrolled in the first grade ( Standard Sub-A- SSA ) in 1985 survived into the second year ( Standard Sub-B — SSB ) , little better than the 74 per cent of 1966 . |
| 26 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
| 27 | The city 's newer pillars , especially the regulators and fraud-busters , have fared little better than the old . |
| 28 | One side gets a little better because the other side has . |
| 29 | First published in 1962 and now in its 4th edition ( 1980 ) , this fulfils a role as a reference text rather better than a student text , in that it has hundreds of references but no problems . |
| 30 | Hardly a welcome comment on the mentality of this nation 's youth who , no doubt , understood Morrissey 's ambiguous lyrics rather better than the tabloids . |