Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three conclusions drawn from these arguments , all to some extent encapsulated in the 1958 Education Reform Bill , though it is not altogether clear how the proposals are related to each other . |
| 2 | In the case of those groups which are less advanced today the process will take longer , but that is all the difference . ' |
| 3 | It was so different even the weir had been removed which means the river at this point is some three feet shallower than when I last fished it . |
| 4 | But when it comes to ensuring that public bodies act reasonably and within their powers , it is often felt to be much less clear how the law ought to be enforced . |
| 5 | With diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis , it is less obvious how the placebo effect works . |
| 6 | Stork was not entirely sure how the headhunting process worked ; indeed , there were no guides to the subject and all the existing purveyors of search are more or less self-taught . |
| 7 | Back in the cargo area , ruining two pairs of gauntlets in the process , I ripped fibres from the socks and glued then here and there , in and around , more or less filling out the places on the sculpture that had been affected . |
| 8 | Paradoxically it was not quite so bad now the invaders had arrived . |
| 9 | More widely within society , it is argued , competitive individualism challenges collectivism ; the provision of services through the state is abandoned in favour of privatization so expanding again the sphere of potential profit-making . |
| 10 | Keep on listening whenever the language helper says an utterance even though your turn has passed . |
| 11 | It was already clear how the camera might be used to measure area — by simply counting pixels seen at an ‘ appropriate ’ illumination level and exposure . |
| 12 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 13 | It is not clear why the motives of the White Paper of 1943 , the intentions of the inspectorate and the hopes of educational reformers were so little heeded in the specific detail of selection . |
| 14 | It is not clear why the disease is usually not apparent until calves , turned out to graze in the spring , have been at grass for 2-5 months . |
| 15 | It was not clear why the matter deserved a book to itself . |
| 16 | It is not clear why the theft or robbery count should be considered before that of handling except that the theft or robbery must have come first in time . |
| 17 | * It is not clear why the effect of the retention interval should be especially marked when the pre-exposure flavour is different from that used in the subsequent phases of the study . |
| 18 | In any case , it is not clear why the period of five years has been chosen . |
| 19 | It is not clear why the consent of the parties should be a precondition to leapfrog appeals , and the issue was contentious when the Bill was debated in Parliament . |
| 20 | It is not clear why the age of 65 was taken as the cut-off point for these screening programmes . |
| 21 | They say the two men should stand trial in Scotland or the United States , though it is not clear how the West would react to Col Gaddafi 's suggestion , now apparently retracted , that it could take place in another Arab League country . |
| 22 | So far it is not clear how the G and C cells know when to stop following the Q cells and select an A or P pioneer . |
| 23 | It 's still not clear how the man set fire to himself , but as a remand prisoner he was allowed cigarettes and matches in his cell . |
| 24 | ‘ It is still not clear how the child came to be in the river , ’ a police spokesman said last night . |
| 25 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 26 | Here , there are also formal links ( So , she , etc. ) but it is not clear how the sequence makes sense . |
| 27 | • It is not clear how the duration of sleep could be controlled as regularly as is observed to be the case . |
| 28 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 29 | One group of alternants clearly originates with the extension of the general unrounding of ME u ( as in cut , dull ) to initial labial items , such as pull , but it is not clear how the words originating from shortening in the ME o set can be predicted phonologically ( for example , if took belongs to the set , why not cook ? ) . |
| 30 | Even Wilson himself was not clear how the miracle had been worked . |