Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union is too dependent and too much part of the world economy to return to hibernation , but another period of infatuation may have come to an end . |
| 2 | ‘ Overheads are too high and too much money is tied up in slow-moving stock . |
| 3 | It is virtually impossible to estimate the proportion of such relations , within books as a whole , since some and perhaps much commissioning is still , in cultural terms , governed by considerations of what authors would in any case have wished to write . |
| 4 | Between 1985 and early this year , the krona lost about 25% against the D-mark . |
| 5 | Some day the queen 's ministers will have to stop advising her to undertake another and yet another journey through the phantasmagoria of cheering crowds and empty ceremonies which mock the memory of a power that was but is no longer . |
| 6 | It is true to say , however , that since the business has become mature , the period of readjustment has been extremely painful and very few fibre companies have made much money over the last decade . |
| 7 | Connolly 's famous valedictory — ‘ It is closing time in the gardens of the West ’ — may be little more than the self-excusing of an indolent man , but what replaced Horizon ( 1940 — 50 ) and Penguin New Writing ( 1940–50 ) was something far brisker and far less mandarin . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for Bell Lawrie feeling that Brewin Dolphin was the right answer to its future was that their approaches are similar and therefore such integration as there needs to be is largely confined to systems . |
| 9 | The results were contradictory and thus neither hypothesis was supported . |
| 10 | For Mae it was almost all too much and only this morning — a day into her new life in Northampton — was she ready to express her feelings . |
| 11 | Even in his very early and surprisingly few organ ricercari — notably the one del 8. tono on three closely worked subjects , and the one del 10. tono ( of which the one del 9. tono is essentially a shortened version ) where a canzon theme alternates with a motive worked in almost too facile descending sequences — Giovanni enters a different world from his uncle 's ricercari ; the last traces of the ‘ instrumental motet ’ have been erased . |
| 12 | The protests will be bigger and louder this time . ’ |
| 13 | Its object was to get access to modern technology as cheaply as possible and as much effort was put into charming Western bankers and businessmen as their political leaders . |
| 14 | They enable the text of bills to be much shorter than would otherwise be possible and so much time is saved on the discussions of new legislation . |
| 15 | That , that and then that bit there . |
| 16 | The two key findings of our study , therefore , were firstly that H pylori infection was more commong than expected in our population in 1969 and secondly that acqusition of infection over the subsequent 21 years was a rare occurrence . |
| 17 | Int it gorgeous and especially this view . |
| 18 | Taxes were too high and the state bureaucracy too large and too much power had become centralized in Washington at the expense of the states . |
| 19 | To everyone who made her feel welcome and very much part of our fellowship , may I say how much I appreciate you all . |
| 20 | Their foot were not in the main Highlandmen — although they had some of these , from upland Perthshire and the Glens of Angus — and so could not travel so fast and far each day . |
| 21 | He had claimed a silver at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and later that winter helped Western Australia add to their tally of Sheffield Shield triumphs . |
| 22 | and I bought three and I thought there should be five cos I did n't have a fire on Sunday at all and twice this week I have n't lit it till fi you know them four buckets |
| 23 | This Government has no time at all for the poor and even less time for people who become poor as a result of their savage policies , the policies which cause high interest rates , rising unemployment and all because of it 's obsession with inflation . |
| 24 | The evidence is too complex and too little work has been done . |
| 25 | Waqar had tome to come close to removing Hick 's head and they shaved his wicket with a rapid breakback , but Gower was still flowing when lunch came , England 195 for 4 and still some way from safety . |
| 26 | When everything 's going well for you it 's easy to forget that God 's there with you , because life 's so busy and so much fun . |
| 27 | Of course , the inevitable questions of what that foundation should consist of and when it should be built are answered by the claim that the period of initial training is too short and therefore such knowledge must be provided earlier by the academic course or later by in-service courses . |
| 28 | Morse looked at her : looked at the piled-up hair above her wistful face ; looked down at the full and observably bra-less bosom ; looked down at the taut stretch of black stocking between the knee and the thigh of her crossed right leg . |
| 29 | One of the authors summarized the position in the words : ‘ Since 1922 we have come to recognise more and more that chemotherapy in the sense in which Ehrlich introduced the term , is more of a dream than a reality ’ . |
| 30 | COVER : Just look at how harsh and tight that bank is . |