Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1985 ) presented evidence that inhibitory training procedures produce a CS- that is subsequently learned about rather slowly even when the test procedure was one that required further inhibitory learning . |
| 2 | In the Leisure Society the employed are an elite of highly educated and skilled professionals who work full-time , but the wealth created by the equipment they have designed and operate is dispersed rather widely so that the mass of the population are able to live reasonably well off the products of the automated machinery cared for by the core elite . |
| 3 | At the worst they were little better off than the best paid sections of the working class and at the best they were able to afford a distinctively different education for their children and adopt a lifestyle which aped their financial betters . |
| 4 | Feeling a little better now that the weight was off her feet and the room had finally stopped swimming around her , Lisa watched him through lowered lashes as he phoned down his order . |
| 5 | In the end he said , ‘ Oh , the bugger 's dead all right but the question is , who 's going to bury the undertaker ? ’ |
| 6 | It ca n't go on for ever because characters such as the Fat Slags ( right ) can only go on so long before the joke starts to wear thin . |
| 7 | We passed along slowly so that the cortège could be seen and all could have a last look at the coffin . |
| 8 | We were down , we were down much further and the hospital was that opposite the park , like , is it the park or something ? |
| 9 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 10 | But these laws are intended to prevent men from such ‘ wastage ’ of seed , and thus define men much less intrinsically than the blood taboos define women qua women as unclean . |
| 11 | Lloyds is no more outlandish or intrusive than Tower Bridge and much less so than the monstrous and melancholy Battersea Power Station , a sublime work of imperious architecture that Londoners once loved to hate but now admire . |
| 12 | They became strong and agile swimmers , still vulnerable to attack but much less so than the invertebrates . |
| 13 | Even the ticking-over rate of about 10 pulses per second is probably quite costly , but much less so than the maximum rate of 200 per second . |
| 14 | Consistent with this , the homologous Vmw175 DNA binding domain , and also intact Vmw175 , recognize the gene 62 binding sites much less efficiently than the 140k DNA binding domain . |
| 15 | Similar changes in attitude have been in evidence throughout the training of these recruits , so much so that the unenlightened diehard points indignantly to an apparent decline in discipline and general standard . |
| 16 | Hatred and fear of women is not new and is overt in religions , so much so that the evolvement of codes of courtesy to the female has been felicitous . |
| 17 | The Ramsay Street choir was a sensation , so much so that the crowd instantly bayed for an encore . |
| 18 | Albert Finney brings four-square authority to the part of Alfred , so much so that the audience is in danger of overlooking the subtleties of Stephen Moore 's performance as Michael — his plaintive vanity , the show of modest perplexity with which he explains that the situations in his plays just somehow turn out to have universal significance . |
| 19 | In addition , the new regulations continued the pre-war advantages for university-provided liberal adult education which further weakened the relative position of the WEA so much so that the Ashby Committee reported that university income for adult education had exceeded £550,000 in 1951–52 in contrast to the WEA 's income of little more than £130,000 for that year . |
| 20 | ASTRONOMERS have traditionally regarded the sun as an absolutely constant source of light and heat , so much so that the amount of radiation reaching the Earth ( at its average distance ) is called the ‘ solar constant ’ . |
| 21 | In the case of a prolapsed disc ( a slipped disc ) the vertebrae have been pulled together with a great force arising from muscular tension , so much so that the membrane that encloses the fluid in the disc has burst . |
| 22 | Suddenly there is a new generation of wrestlers eager to enter the world of grunt and groan — so much so that the New Year will see Dixon open a wrestling school in Birmingham . |
| 23 | So much so that the joke went around : ‘ Why are there no pornographic magazines in Romania ? ’ |
| 24 | Because of injuries and unavailability , Chelmsford were often stretched to field three teams this season so much so that the first team was left short of substitutes . |
| 25 | There were four Special Agents in the London office , and they had plenty to do , so much so that the fidgeting intruder could just about be ignored . |
| 26 | It similarly exerted itself to establish working relationships with other international organisations , so much so that the Council of Europe became a kind of central clearing house for cooperation and coordination , with the Assembly ( renamed the Parliamentary Assembly in 1974 ) receiving and discussing annual reports from other European bodies , such as the European Community and the European Free Trade Association , from OECD , and from several UN agencies . |
| 27 | Fortunately Annellie Clyde was an inspired teacher and Artemis , besides being a very talented rider was also an extremely quick learner , so much so that the principles of riding side-saddle were learned by the end of day two , although without the help of Artemis 's new horse , Hullabaloo , who had proved himself to be somewhat too fidgety and edgy to be included in the preliminary tuition . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the main emphasis of the book is upon the prejudices of racism , antisemitism and nationalism , so much so that the unqualified term is sufficient to evoke these exemplifications . |
| 29 | For example , skilled workers may enjoy considerable autonomy by virtue of their employer 's reliance on their skills — so much so that the employer gives little thought to attempts to rationalise work or de-skill jobs . |
| 30 | Later , under Roman occupation , they maintained with unbreakable courage their strict monotheism ; so much so that the Roman governor did not even dare to bring his standards into Jerusalem lest the medallions on them depicting the emperor should be thought to infringe the Second Commandment . |