Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she was quite intelligent ; but she was no more so than were quite a number of the poor she already knew . |
| 2 | Down and was subsequently a representative for South Down in the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention of the following year . |
| 3 | ‘ C ’ sajica reaches 4″ or so and is probably the largest species you could keep successfully in that tank and then if you have just a pair of them and nothing else . |
| 4 | Rob took time to settle in but is now an important member of the team . |
| 5 | I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case . |
| 6 | ( With this line of argument , however , it is possible to exaggerate the extent to which the hierarchical division of labour — fostering sectionalism among workers — was primarily a result of deliberate and purposive employer labour strategy , rather than being more an unintended consequence of technological advance . ) |
| 7 | The lower dam has been breached and most of the signs of its previous existence are gone , while the upper dam , though it still has a fine water race below it , is silted over and is now a peaty , muddy reed-bed . |
| 8 | When this picture was fully developed , even space was represented not as being qualitatively the way it is in vision , but as a structural isomorph of visual and tactile space . |
| 9 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 10 | It was described in a Greek herbal written in the third century B.C. and is probably a native of the eastern Mediterranean area , though it is now so widespread it is difficult to be certain of its origin . |
| 11 | Canadian whisky is always distilled in the patent still and is always a blend . |
| 12 | It was far enough away to be no real danger , but it certainly stopped me going any further and was probably a timely warning ! |
| 13 | The relatively detailed information in the annals and in the correspondence of Alcuin for this phase of the reign of Eardwulf enables us to perceive more clearly than is usually the case the way in which an attempt to challenge a Northumbrian king could embrace both internal dissent and external interference . |
| 14 | She liked the way it stood , distinct and certain , rising out of the level muddy waste of grass and tarmac that generously surrounded it : a bomb had fallen during the war , on a neighbouring chapel , and the site had been levelled out and was now an unofficial part of the school 's playgrounds The whole area was of a bleak airiness , and a cold wind seemed to blow incessantly upon it , turning the knees and knuckles of the girls pink and blue , and snatching away their obligatory berets the moment they emerged from the school porch . |
| 15 | ‘ He moves back and is mainly a one-handed fighter . |
| 16 | and I understand that because I , I 'd probably feel like that , I 'd sooner invest in bricks and mortar even if were only a little end-terrace house |
| 17 | John won his third cap , again played well and was again a winner . |
| 18 | All Nippon Airways was first allowed to fly internationally five years ago and is now a serious rival to JAL on some routes . |
| 19 | Radiocarbon was developed forty years ago and is still the scientific dating method most commonly used by archaeologists . |
| 20 | But the fact that the crusaders — and western monarchs in the twelfth century — did not abandon their style of cavalry strongly suggests that the mounted knight was still a very effective weapon , as well as being increasingly the symbol of social status . |
| 21 | Television will infiltrate into the national consciousness even more copiously than is already the case the personalities of the two main party leaders . |
| 22 | I can not remember the name of the bank but it was the easiest way I have ever obtained currency abroad and was certainly no expensive . |
| 23 | It has met at regular quarterly intervals since then and is possibly the oldest meeting of its kind in Ireland . |
| 24 | We could go up there and be there a week . |
| 25 | It was significant that Mr Lamont had looked further ahead than is usually the case on Budget day , said Professor Sherer . |
| 26 | The general constitutive equation is found to be where and is now an integral involving the deformation gradient . |
| 27 | To begin with , Archie featured at inside forward and was easily the leading scorer in our first season , with 20 goals in the Southern League 2nd Division fixtures , and as such was a primary reason for Palace 's elevation to the 1st Division for 1906–07 . |
| 28 | Instead he believes priorities have to be drawn up and stuck to even if that means low-priority areas are ignored altogether as is already the case in some parts of the country . |
| 29 | Ironically Stiedry 's approach , once thought , not least by the old Record Guide , somewhat peremptory now seems to accord with modern ideas of how to treat Gluck , not marmoreally as was then the general custom but as live drama . |
| 30 | Maxwell Fyfe 's guidelines were never meant to be taken seriously but were merely a piece of bureaucratic window-dressing . |