Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story today is rather less critical as Lotus reports significant gains across the Windows software scene , with , for example , Freelance Graphics increasing its market share from 35% to 59% in just one month . |
| 2 | This makes it a little less likely that mud , attached to the log , will wash off during the journey . |
| 3 | He was only restrained from burning it to the ground by Harcourt , who urged him to ‘ be a little less impetuous and content yourself with what you have done ’ . |
| 4 | Floor tiles are less widely used than wall tiles , but are a popular choice for heavy traffic areas such as porches and hallways , and also for conservatories . |
| 5 | There are few aquarium fish which are so uniformly peaceful and easily-maintained as the rasboras . |
| 6 | The Department of Transportation shall pay special attention to the pedestrian walkways and surface streets located in predominantly poor and minority areas . |
| 7 | In Britain it flourished especially among those for whom orthodox religion had become untenable , providing a promise of immortality apparently much firmer than argument such as that of Stewart and Tait , or of the Bible . |
| 8 | Explaining this popularity is not difficult : Edmund was himself killed by the Danes , and it was perhaps only natural that veneration for him should grow in the area which had formed his kingdom , and seen a great deal of the renewed conflict between Danes and English . |
| 9 | For someone who appeared so gleefully wicked and amoral , Cleo seemed surprisingly dim when it came to character judgment . |
| 10 | Sceptics may doubt whether anyone would read it but our survey shows that viewers take PEBs seriously and rate them only slightly less useful than news broadcasts for helping decide how to vote ( though much less useful than news broadcasts for providing information ) . |
| 11 | Rather than propose ways in which representative democracy could be strengthened and improved , these authors concluded : ‘ the weight of the evidence is that a vote is much less effective than purchasing power … the market is potentially more democratic than the state ’ ( p. 65 ) . |
| 12 | Total excise duty revenue is much less buoyant than VAT revenue ( see Figure 5.6 ) . |
| 13 | Regimes which support apparently normal growth and development of rat embryos for several days ( 20 ) are much less successful when mouse embryos are used . |
| 14 | Copper in contrast was not durable enough for big editions , and where its effects were desired it was increasingly replaced by steel ; but this was much less used than wood for works of science . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's probably much less complicated than golf , ’ said Croquet North secretary Bruce Rannie . |
| 16 | This gas is much less common than oxygen and very much more reactive ( in fact , it is the most reactive of all the elements , probably too reactive to serve as the basis for any conceivable lifeform . |
| 17 | Although industrial disputes were much less common than food riots , historians have recently come to recognise that they were much more frequent than had been allowed . |
| 18 | Candidal infection of the penis is much less common than infection of the female genitalia . |
| 19 | Other factors can cause lung cancer but they are much less important than smoking . |
| 20 | Although much less important than consumption in aggregate demand , investment has , through the multiplier , a significant effect on National Income , and is the most volatile element in aggregate demand . |
| 21 | On the battlefield armament was still much less important than discipline and fighting spirit . |
| 22 | Most people think if it , if it 's , if it 's real at all it 's er it 's much less important than weight . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , for the average European manager comfort , structure and relationships goals are much less important than recognition , power and autonomy . |
| 24 | Much less flashy and class orientated in a UK sense , they have more of a general consultancy view of the world , with a problem-solving approach rather than just an interest in completing a job . |
| 25 | He had , in fact , had a very pleasant breakfast with his father , eating a third bowl of cornflakes and toast , without for one moment feeling uncomfortable or wondering why his father should be so gently considerate and butter his toast for him . |
| 26 | ‘ When I started using glass it seemed so much smoother and warmer-feeling that I decided to stick with it , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Interactions with oscillating quadrupoles , etc. are also possible , but are so much weaker than dipole interactions that they can usually be ignored . |
| 28 | Would n't it be so much easier if money was ‘ on tap ’ for us to use whenever we like . |
| 29 | He was obviously so happy and content in himself and his vocation that he had no real worry about being himself — even in the pulpit . |
| 30 | An attitude of fatalism may be seen in typical phrases from traditional low-income black American subculture such as ‘ I 've been down so long that down do n't bother me ’ , ‘ I was born under a bad sign ’ and ‘ It 's an uphill climb to the bottom ’ . |