Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that two years later the HMI Secondary Survey showed that popular fears about falling standards were largely unfounded did conspicuously little to change the prevailing attitude . |
| 2 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 3 | When a hospital patient is unable to perform the activities of daily life for him- or herself , staff are on hand to help ; such staff are called ‘ nurses ’ , though in reality ward staff do little that requires a skilled qualified nursing background . |
| 4 | Paradoxically this makes the moral and dynastic problems in the books less taxing to young readers , because they are isolated from the pressures of their own time . |
| 5 | Perhaps that explains the large sum in his current account . |
| 6 | Democritus , it is said , never appeared in public without laughing , so little did the serious pursuits of men seem serious to him . |
| 7 | If dogs survive in the wild , they often have effects on the flora and fauna ; so that has a conservation effect and perhaps other effects on species in the environment . |
| 8 | So that means the eight ladies and gentlemen sleeping here last night . |
| 9 | Place three cups on a table , one upwards and two downwards , and say to everyone the game is to turn over two cups at once so that cups the right way up are turned upside down and vice versa . |
| 10 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
| 11 | Ultimately the most memorable lines in this volume must be those penned by Bonnard to Matisse in January 1940 : ‘ When I think of you , I think of a mind cleansed of every old aesthetic convention , and it is that alone that permits a direct view of nature , the greatest joy that can befall a painter . |
| 12 | I was very happy to see how much this pleased the young man . |
| 13 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps this meant no more than that he believed the propaganda , the lies and the flatter of those who surrounded him ; still , his belief had been complete . |
| 15 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 16 | Perhaps this marks the single biggest difference between Marxist Socialism , and Empirical Socialism as it is now practised . |
| 17 | Perhaps this reflects no more than the elevation of masculinity that permeates the canteen culture of the station , but the view that nothing busy happens in the unit and that it is an ‘ easy turn ’ is a sad reflection on how the marginalization of policewomen 's duties has divorced some policemen from the reality of sex crimes . |
| 18 | Perhaps this has a certain symbolic significance : the farm worker has become more isolated from his fellow workers , but more attuned to the world beyond the farm gate . |
| 19 | Obviously this caused a great deal of distress for all concerned , not least the hospital team . |
| 20 | So this makes a terrific partner for Chinese food . |
| 21 | These papers were not so much creating a new market as servicing an established public interest . |
| 22 | Kenny 's Blackburn Magic ( PolyGram Video ) might more suitably be titled The Alan Shearer Show , so much does the prolific England striker dominate this one-hour collection of match highlights from Rovers ' barnstorming entry into the Premier League . |
| 23 | In suggesting that the idea of higher education is hinged on self-criticism , I am not so much developing a personal concept of higher education , therefore , as drawing to the surface our common ( though largely hidden ) understanding of higher education . |
| 24 | The great challenge is not so much describing the physiological and anatomical properties of the cells in these streams but understanding their functional significance . |
| 25 | I could not help feeling proud of the missionary personnel who had done so much to help the fleeing refugees at Shwebo , Mohnyin and Myitkyina , and elsewhere . |
| 26 | The meetings in Washington recaptured something of the wartime Anglo-American relationship that had done so much to win the Second World War . |
| 27 | Together these measured the majoritarian-consensual dimension . |
| 28 | Together these produce a powerful effect , and , after reviewing them and the way they work , it becomes very much less surprising that the semantic essence of syntactic constructions has proved so elusive in the past . |
| 29 | Why have so many left the older urban cores ? |
| 30 | ‘ Health is such a serious issue and people want to have their say , but so many feel the appointed health councils and health boards are able to ignore them and their wishes . |