Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 2 | He looked rather less plump than he felt now . |
| 3 | He looked rather less rational than his dog . |
| 4 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 5 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 6 | He might have been rather less relieved if he could have read her mind . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , there 's no point in it being so beautiful if you ca n't ever go out in it because it 's raining , ’ said Betty , revealing a childish streak in her character which Lydia found rather less appealing than her habitual bossiness . |
| 8 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 9 | Fujitsu Ltd 's threatened losses have caused the company to run afoul of Nippon Investors Service , one of the Japanese credit rating agencies — in Japan the rating agencies are rather less independent than their US counterparts — to review its Triple-A rating of Fujitsu 's long-term bonds and its A1-Plus domestic commercial paper rating for a possible downgrade . |
| 10 | The glass makes this little , obscure fly , who had the cheek to interrupt my wonderful essay , seem suddenly rather less little , and rather less obscure than I 'd thought previously . |
| 11 | ‘ Well ? ’ demands Tite , a little too sharply and Summerchild becomes rather less forthcoming than he had intended . |
| 12 | Obviously , you are expected to ‘ use ’ them somehow , but what you are supposed to do with them is rather less obvious than it was in the Hardy Hall case . |
| 13 | But besides the falls I 've just mentioned there are many more falls and forces like Cotter Force , Catrigg Force and Scaleber Force which , perhaps because they are a little less accessible , are visited by far fewer people , although they are also arguably less impressive because they do n't fall as far or there are n't as many of them . |
| 14 | I am rarely so drunk that I ca n't talk or walk straight . |
| 15 | People are rarely so rude that you can say , ‘ Look , we 're not enjoying this , are we ? |
| 16 | This is most obviously important where there is a direct link between the degree subject and occupation . |
| 17 | Sign language is almost essential in shops too , but it 's a little less embarrassing because you can be more discreet . |
| 18 | He conveys our variousness because he includes the parts of our life that he hates , as well as those he loves , and notices the many almost unknowable communities in our midst , people only a little less mysterious than his group of Aztecs who came over in stone boats . |
| 19 | The contributors ' arguments became a little less convincing when they came to explain why mantras were used . |
| 20 | She looked a little less hollow-eyed than she had a week ago . |
| 21 | THE SEABOARD IS a little less Eastern than you might have remembered it but to the enterprising Americans this is not a problem . |
| 22 | Your Watson , then , needs to be just a little less intelligent than you conceive your readers as being . |
| 23 | The gaps between them are so big that if you plunge your arm through into the mantle , the clam is quite unable to grip it — though the experiment is a little less unnerving if it is tried first with a post . |
| 24 | Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house . |
| 25 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 26 | That had been rather pointedly obvious when he played Ferdinand in The Tempest at Stratford in the glorious summer of 1951 : a lightweight romantic figure with no menace or drama about him — Burton was not good . |
| 27 | D H S S , because very often , they either ca n't get telephone boxes working , or they 're hanging on so long that they do n't have enough money |
| 28 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 29 | Because he was so devilishly attractive that she could n't resist him ? |
| 30 | He looked for the pole Star on nights so intensely black that you almost had to touch your limbs to make sure they were still there . |