Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By concentrating on only the fastest of fast-moving consumer goods , they keep their stock at a minimum — often selling it before having to pay suppliers .
2 So perhaps the moral for itinerant artists is to stay at home and work with what you know .
3 It is entirely possible to think that if ‘ literary ’ and ‘ aesthetic ’ are words that go naturally with ‘ American ’ but not with ‘ English ’ , so much the worse for the English .
4 The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community !
5 He had an irrepressible tendency to send up his interviewers : if they were daft enough to believe it — so much the worse for them .
6 If economic agents do not arrive at the solutions indicated by the economic model ( or if foreign policy decision-makers do not choose the strategies recommended by game theory ) , that is , one might say , so much the worse for the agents .
7 But if bureaucrats turn out not to organize and act as in the model , then that is so much the worse for the model .
8 The premise behind the ability to waive is that it is only the individual who is concerned , and thus if he ‘ chooses ’ to ignore the interest then so much the worse for him .
9 If for instance , Hanslick found it impossible to take his libretti seriously as poetry , so much the worse for Hanslick .
10 If his subjects were unwilling to accept the progress and enlightenment he offered , so much the worse for them .
11 So much the worse for human beings ?
12 So much the worse for computers ?
13 If it is a wet day or it has recently been raining , so much the better for showing up leaks and dampness .
14 If Upper Gumtree proved listless , so much the better for Flokati 's chances .
15 If he 'll have me with him and Charlotte , then so much the better for me . ’
16 And ‘ so much the better for him ’ .
17 Of course if they can find someone on whose sympathy to play , someone who will pay one hundred or perhaps one hundred and fifty pounds then so much the better for them .
18 Thus , if what were yesterday hot political disputes can today be channelled into the ‘ legal process ’ , operating with new principles and procedures , and an apparent indifference to ‘ political ’ questions , then so much the better for those in power .
19 There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields .
20 The details of this analysis of pyroclastic deposits are rather complex , so only a few of the more interesting aspects will be described here .
21 When tasting , pour in only a third of a glassful and use the following guidelines :
22 To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation .
23 Take in just a few of Northern Spain 's options , and discover the Spain that the Spanish truly love .
24 Architectural paint companies tend to change their colours only once every seven to 10 years , so this is seen as a major revamp which could hold the key to Porter 's sales and marketing success for the rest of the century .
25 Not an enemy at all — but an ally in the greatest , most righteous , yet perhaps also the vilest of plans .
26 They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap .
27 The microwave combination 's ability to prime cook à la carte dishes in about a fifth of the usual time offers opportunities to introduce items on the menu which traditionally have meant advance ordering , for example , racks of lamb , beef Wellingtons , en croûte dishes and so on .
28 This can be seen as a backlash against independent research which shows that confusion and ignorance is the main factor in about a third of unplanned teenage pregnancies .
29 Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned .
30 Mutant oncogenes of the ras family are found in about a third of all cancers and as many as 80% of pancreatic tumours .
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