Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , there was feeling , the word used not in the conventional sense , but to describe a much less consciously formulated process of appreciation and subjective valuation . |
| 2 | Perhaps this was because with two full tanks and six people aboard we were just short of the 5,090-pound max weight — or more likely Tony was deliberately limiting the output of his nearly-new engine below the normal 36 inches and 2,300 rpm , but the long Wiplines seemed to have a much less clearly defined hump than other floats I have flown . |
| 3 | Another and in some respects even more powerful exemplification of the use of symbols by Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic man is to be found in hitherto little noticed marks on antler and bone artefacts recently subjected to intensive study by Alexander Marshack with the aid of high-magnification photography . |
| 4 | But is n't nature a very delicate balance between various forces and various processes , and by people , not like yourself , but perhaps more industrially based people producing vast quantities of a given compound and spreading it almost indiscriminately , could n't that erm seriously upset the balance of nature in a particular resource ? |
| 5 | Thus appraisal systems are perhaps more accurately termed performance review systems . |
| 6 | Under sectorisation individual managers have much more clearly defined responsibility , and the need to keep the customer informed about the whereabouts of his goods , for example , is now recognised as paramount . |
| 7 | Blacks , on the other hand , harbour a much more narrowly defined set of possibilities on how they might advance . |
| 8 | This is found on the new coin struck by Henry , the sovereign , and , more strikingly , on the much more widely circulated groats , where the coin type with the open crown had long remained unaltered . |
| 9 | A much more modestly financed project was subsequently initiated to look at Primary School Drama ( 1979 ) under the directorship of Tom Stabler . |
| 10 | France has a huge network of minor roads , a much more sparsely populated country , and a motoring public who are , by and large , aware of cyclists and considerate towards them . |
| 11 | During the summer months it was possible to get a much more highly paid job as a housecleaner , a ‘ barker ’ or a bingo-caller or a taxi driver , and so the winter job of working in a factory was a ‘ stop gap ’ . |
| 12 | A similar but somewhat more conventionally presented set of controls is also available on the system 's remote control handset ( an extra cost item ) , an unusually well built device which does not come from the Philips parts bin , though it does obey Philips commands . |
| 13 | The term " hashshash " does refer to users of cannabis in Arabic , but " hashish " and " hashishi " referred generically to herbage , and only later specifically meant cannabis . |
| 14 | Although the concept is proven at club level , it has so far never found favour in international competition . |
| 15 | The Jews settled in fairly clearly defined areas of larger cities , especially in East London , Manchester and Glasgow . |
| 16 | Later , particularly during the period of mid-Victorian agricultural prosperity , farmers left the village to live in often newly built farmhouses , which were located on their own holdings of land . |
| 17 | The way the press attacked it and so on obviously made life a lot harder for us . |
| 18 | Female is only completely uniformly barred sandgrouse , lacking any distinctive markings . |
| 19 | Lord Deverill , having watched in silence , seeing his daughter was safe , popped his big horse over the gate and galloped on to the covert where hounds had checked , and so too finally had Buttons . |
| 20 | This radiation may increase the depth of the ‘ D ’ layer due to ionisation and produce the all too well known Dellinger face out when long-distance HF communication ceases abruptly . |
| 21 | You 've all of you , there 's no denying it , you 've all too often taken advantage of Eleanor , and so it 's only right and proper now you should respect the fact she has a life of her own . ’ |
| 22 | The procedures took so long that much needed links were not built until years after they were required . |
| 23 | The government has not so far given ground on Mozambique , and has insisted that it is committed to keeping its troops in Cambodia . |
| 24 | SAVE was now the owner of a building we had not so far gained access to . |
| 25 | One week there had been fifty fridge doors outside his office , another week forty or fifty bicycle frames , although Robert had not so far caught sight of a single chain , tyre , wheel or handlebar . |
| 26 | As the definition of meditation developed in scope , so prayer came to denote not just intellectually formulated structures but a desire for God which sometimes rises to a direct consciousness of his presence . |
| 27 | Those companies propose to reduce the hours of the already not well paid workers to below the level where those companies have to pay national insurance and take responsibility for pension payments , sick pay and holiday pay — all the things that we used quaintly to associate with civilisation . |
| 28 | Figures – show some results obtained from a young plant , but not under fully controlled conditions . |
| 29 | The inference here is that the volcano spacing is controlled by fracture patterns in the lithosphere , with increasingly thick lithosphere exhibiting progressively more widely spaced fracture patterns through which magma is extruded . |
| 30 | This viewed criminal behaviour not as freely willed action but ( either metaphorically or literally ) as a symptom of some kind of mental illness which should not be punished but ‘ treated ’ like an illness . |