Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My induction into this orthodoxy coincided , however with my growing engagement with the politics of gay culture , and here a different version of Barthes ( that most rapturously polysemic and flirtatiously comic of writers ) was important . |
| 2 | That same year , Schoenberg completed his Variations for Orchestra , Op. 31 , which Karajan would one day remove from the concert-hall to the recording studio to make one of the artistically most successful and technologically most radical of all twentieth-century gramophone recordings . |
| 3 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 4 | All species will do well , but C luciliae is one of the most widely available and dependable |
| 5 | Of the Italian fresh cheeses , Ricotta and Mascarpone are the most widely available and the most highly publicised . |
| 6 | Baur was the leader of the ‘ Tübingen school ’ which opened up new lines of study of the New Testament , and was the most widely influential and controversial movement in biblical criticism in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | This became most strikingly clear when the encyclicals Lamentabili and Pascendi in 1907 condemned the ‘ modernists ’ . |
| 8 | Usually it tastes quite potatoey and presumably rather leeky as well I should imagine . |
| 9 | With him the courts were rarely wholly open and never , except occasionally at Aix , wholly shut . |
| 10 | This , undoubtedly , is how the leader of the most intensely sad and beautiful band of 1992 really should behave . |
| 11 | The English ambassador — and the English king — no doubt found the spectacle of what was going on in Scotland rather less surprising than Sir George Douglas . |
| 12 | The story today is rather less critical as Lotus reports significant gains across the Windows software scene , with , for example , Freelance Graphics increasing its market share from 35% to 59% in just one month . |
| 13 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
| 14 | Consequently , he started looking rather less convincing as self-appointed bard of the downtrodden , with 1978 's Blue Valentine and 1980 's Heartattack & Vine verging precariously on self parody . |
| 15 | He looked rather less plump than he felt now . |
| 16 | The male defenders were rather less fortunate and the thousand or so Royalists were starved out after eleven days ; half joined Waller immediately . |
| 17 | He looked rather less rational than his dog . |
| 18 | In the far south we have Kappa Pavonis in the Peacock , which is what is termed a ‘ Type II Cepheid ’ , rather less powerful than a classical Cepheid with the same period . |
| 19 | This was a third form of government , after rule by gentlemen and rule by military discipline had turned out not to be very successful , and most Englishmen would have found it rather less usual than either of the earlier types of government . |
| 20 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 21 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 22 | He might have been rather less relieved if he could have read her mind . |
| 23 | Soviet strategy had in fact been much more reactive and rather less successful than this picture tended to suggest . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , there 's no point in it being so beautiful if you ca n't ever go out in it because it 's raining , ’ said Betty , revealing a childish streak in her character which Lydia found rather less appealing than her habitual bossiness . |
| 25 | Heres , for example ( in , " the greedy clutches of your heir " ) , denotes something perhaps rather less cosy and familial than the English word " heir " ; in many contexts it suggests nothing more than a legal designate with a contractual , post-obituary option on some hapless benefactor 's goods and chattels.5 Pietas is a notoriously difficult word to render , " piety " being the last recourse of the weary translator ; it involves " integrity " , " probity " , " purity " , " fidelity " , " devotion " , " decency " — a complex of related moral attributes which Romans sought and recognised in the upright man . |
| 26 | That share is rather less extensive and exalted than is often claimed for these bodies . |
| 27 | Could it be that you are just a little bit jealous of The Great White North — a society , after all , rather less divisive and certainly more prosperous than decaying , decadent Britain ? |
| 28 | The most notable object in Pavo is the short-period variable Kappa , which is a Type II Cepheid , rather less luminous than an ordinary Cepheid of the same period . |
| 29 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 30 | Fujitsu Ltd 's threatened losses have caused the company to run afoul of Nippon Investors Service , one of the Japanese credit rating agencies — in Japan the rating agencies are rather less independent than their US counterparts — to review its Triple-A rating of Fujitsu 's long-term bonds and its A1-Plus domestic commercial paper rating for a possible downgrade . |