Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This girl 's quite switched on on the tour operator side |
| 2 | He was right , a fire watcher came in saying that there was a stick of small unexploded bombs right down the Palace Road but that the junction of Munster and Dawes Road had had a hundred pounder and houses had gone . |
| 3 | He decided to attack right down the landing path , diving from behind them , and he nudged his throbbing aircraft slightly to one side . |
| 4 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 5 | Nothing for it but to go back the way you came , to Neu St Johann , thence down the Toggenburg valley through the resorts of Nesslau and Ebnat-Kappel to Wattwil . |
| 6 | At the same time a check should be made to ensure that the private sector passes on only the handling charge to its patients . |
| 7 | An unshaded fitting glared weakly down the cellar steps . |
| 8 | He is carried slowly down the centre aisle upon a cushioned palanquin , borne upon the naked shoulders of four local May Queens . |
| 9 | Barney explained the intricacies of the pre-selector gearbox , after which Julie engaged first gear and , with a slight jolt , moved the big car slowly down the station drive . |
| 10 | This guide deals only with the northern fringe of high country lying to the north of the watershed and thus within Canton Berne , so confusingly the book title is more administrative than topographical . |
| 11 | Yet Leicestershire also has many parishes where the village has disappeared from the landscape , leaving perhaps only the manor house or squire 's hall and sometimes a forlorn and decaying church . |
| 12 | ‘ Clare has a copy of the paper now , and I have brought in a couple of extra copies ; so perhaps the dinosaur people , at least , might like to have a look at it and see what they think . |
| 13 | You do n't get long enough the W I meeting ? er in October and you do n't get their savings until , until the meeting on the er thirtieth . . |
| 14 | However , the shallow roofline means no sunroof , much less the targa roof of an MR2 . |
| 15 | ‘ Not so much a naan bread , more a toasted duvet , ’ I 'd said . |
| 16 | This is surely not so much a knock-out punch , more of a gentle slap on the wrist . |
| 17 | The noted Maori boys college was not so much a rugby school as a school of rugby , fielding 13 rugby teams , one football side and one hockey team from its 350 pupils , as well as producing the best school XV in the country . |
| 18 | It 's not so much a style difference as how comfortable you feel , and where you have the handholds . |
| 19 | There is certainly , not so much a race problem between pupils , but there is a great problem here at the moment with the congregation , shall we say , of black pupils . |
| 20 | He is so much a scum supporter it makes me heave . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's not so much a game show , more a study of psychology . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm in London I 'm in the nick I 'm in fucking Paddington Green for Christ 's sake , the high-security station they use for the Provos and they think I 'm so dangerous so much a security risk they 've got me here and even holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act Jesus God because some of them still are n't convinced they are n't dealing with some unholy alliance of the IRA , Welsh Nationalists and uppity jocks . |
| 23 | This gave them not so much a production holiday , more like two serials ‘ in the can ’ for season two ( up to and including the rapidly commissioned ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ ) that could be recorded during season one 's contractual period . |
| 24 | What we need is not so much a point irregularity such as a foreign atom , because that could only facilitate movement at one point , but rather a line defect which will allow the army of molecules , as it were , to sweep forward on a broad front . |
| 25 | It was not so much a guidance note as a review ; the Committee 's terms of reference had been to consider the design and layout most appropriate to various types of roads in built-up areas , with due regard to safety , the free Mow of road traffic , economy and the requirements of town planning , and to make recommendations . |
| 26 | Alternatively it has been suggested that it is not so much the school effect which is important as the curriculum which is followed . |
| 27 | To be honest , it is n't so much the W particle that they 've found at CERN , as the ‘ signature of a long-sought particle of matter ’ , as the establishment 's press release puts it ( for more details of this exciting find , turn to p 221 of this issue ) . |
| 28 | Another dimension to the trading imbalances caused by the two oil shocks is not so much the currency consequences but the recycling problem . |
| 29 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 30 | It was not so much the kite design , rather , the principle of moving the centre of lift as the lines were pulled that made this early application a forecast of today 's steering methods . |