Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [det] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Their imaginations are eager to go rather more than half-way to meet the audacious writer .
2 Perhaps it is not surprising , because those demands change so much and so often .
3 Events in the world , they say , appear chaotic and unplanned , appear so all but unmistakably .
4 Yet the urge to press on , paradoxically , could lead to questioning becoming not more but less effective and therefore a somewhat inefficient use of the time available .
5 Mixed up more than ever before .
6 Often a solicitor will know as much or more about the history of local land as anyone .
7 The preferences could include as many or as few of the candidates as the voter wished .
8 BLACKADDER GOES FORTH in which Hugh Laurie shouts too much and then I RENOUNCE WAR does conscientious objectors .
9 I would suggest that it has done rather more than just reveal them .
10 I conclude that they have done so much and so well they will find it hard to let go those duties .
11 Things seemed so much as before .
12 And d' ya know I I 'm beginning to think you sort of protest so much that maybe you 're a leader of a coven or something .
13 He also gave me whole tins of peaches in syrup ; I ate so many that eventually I broke out in a painful rash .
14 Today , sitting in his cosy attic studio in south-west London 's genteel Mortlake , relaxed and tanned from a recent family trip to Sardinia , Stephen Street has done all this and more .
15 And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips !
16 No system has been described in which positional signals have to be transmitted over more than about half a millimetre , or about 30–50 cells .
17 Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother .
18 The indies also have a role in picking up those that once recorded for a major label , like the Dutch singer , Mathilde Santing .
19 I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way .
20 Its business was to sell as much as fast as it could .
21 Other animals often depend as much or more on different senses , and allocate much less of their brain to sight .
22 From then on you 're free to choose as many or as few books as you wish .
23 You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish .
24 You must always include a General , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or as few characters as you wish .
25 YITZHAK Rabin was looking even more than usually impassive on Wednesday night as he watched Israel Television 's special programme marking the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising .
26 YITZHAK Rabin was looking even more than usually impassive on Wednesday night as he watched Israel Television 's special programme marking the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising .
27 The growing consumer movement , reflected in this instance by the burgeoning of self-advocacy , and the advent of the normalisation movement has impinged very little as yet on these strongly established professional traditions .
28 I may feel guilty because my father died young , because I masturbate , because I earn too little or too much , because I have wind .
29 Indeed , I have said considerably more than enough .
30 It would n't surprise me to hear it was locally referred to as the sugar sifter ( a metaphor at last ! ) , one of those useless gadgets dispensing too little or too much in cheap cafés .
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