Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately this is led to some rather less than glorious dealings including such actions with planning applications at Heathrow Airport by District Council . |
| 2 | A coin dealer later offered me £100.00 for my find , which he described as ‘ a common type in a little better than F-grade . ’ |
| 3 | He was vaguely aware that he was driving rather better than usual . |
| 4 | Before that evening the Pink Floyd 's gigs had been small affairs such as the ICA , and for the London Free School at St Luke 's Hall in Notting Hill — but their rudimentary light show meant they were paid rather better than Soft Machine . |
| 5 | The resulting exposition is so authoritative that practitioners and the courts departed from it only rarely unless subsequent developments made this necessary . |
| 6 | Benefits were distributed socially and spatially less widely than anticipated . |
| 7 | She said she thought it was all right as long as he had squared the matter with his own family . |
| 8 | Setting prices in relation to costs is all right as long as the latter are under control , but here they clearly are n't : it is obvious that if Marie 's back is turned , food either gets wasted or goes missing . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm all right as long as I know where things are going , but it 's not on a par with planning a legal argument . ’ |
| 10 | Skiing is all right as long as you do n't take risks . |
| 11 | 4 Never make your students feel stupid or ignorant ; if you want to make a joke at a student 's expense , that 's all right as long as he does n't mind his leg being pulled . |
| 12 | Some researchers with whom discussions have been held admit to copying theses obtained on inter-library loan , and justify such behaviour by saying that ‘ it 'll be all right as long as I do n't publish ’ . |
| 13 | This would be especially so if bi-annual or annual ‘ snapshots ’ of this information survived in electronic form . |
| 14 | Voice not so loud as Great Spotted . |
| 15 | Drums fairly often in spring , not so loud as Great Spotted , but lasting longer , two seconds , with 10–30 blows . |
| 16 | Calls ‘ teu ’ , ‘ teeoo ’ , ‘ chik ’ , etc. not so loud as other shanks , also a liquid twittering trill . |
| 17 | Parsley does best in deep moist soil and sun ; the mints prefer the same soil , and are impervious to shade or sun , but pineapple mint will survive in drought much better than ginger mint . |
| 18 | But the local publican told Jane that these maligned outsiders behaved much better than drunk Councillors . |
| 19 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 20 | It supposedly has a ‘ real ’ remote procedure call system , ‘ much better than Open Network Computing RPC , ’ and can communicate within a machine or between machines . |
| 21 | The weather , being much better than expected , allowed us to take a gentle stroll and some light refreshment . |
| 22 | Good windsurfing boots or shoes have soft rubber soles so your grip will be far better , and the materials used in them mean that they can withstand use in water much better than running shoes . |
| 23 | The model fits variations in US fertility trends reasonably well , although not necessarily much better than conventional economic variables ( D. P. Smith 1981 ) . |
| 24 | .. the struggle to establish a clear identity for a radical left of centre politics in the latter part of the 20th century goes much deeper than individual policy issues . |
| 25 | Mutations at Lys22 suggest slight deleterious effects on operator recognition in vitro of the Glu and Ala mutations , with somewhat better than wild-type affinity for Arg substitution . |
| 26 | The study showed that at the Honours level the non-standard entrants did somewhat better than other students , and the difference was more marked in ordinary and general degree courses . |
| 27 | Does it perform sufficiently better than Soviet equipment to warrant the hard currency expended upon it . |
| 28 | Though television was pro-government and pro-Conservative it was much less so than other elements of the mass media . |
| 29 | Calls a babble of ‘ kow-yow ’ and ‘ kow-lyow ’ sounds , like distant cries of beagle pack ; higher-pitched than Greylag but less so than Pink-foot . |
| 30 | Flight more graceful than Herring but less so than Black-headed . |