Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is most usual to think of salami as an Italian speciality , they are , in fact , made throughout Europe . |
| 2 | Seen on the ground the Piper Apache is a chubby little bird , somewhat dated and rather sedate looking in comparison with its younger cousin , the Twin Comanche , but there is an impression of dependability and a promise of comfort . |
| 3 | Blues veterans Jimmie Rodgers and Otis Rush both created their own blues magic and surprise guest Buddy Guy stunned the audience with some of his best and most fiery playing to date . |
| 4 | MS-DOS did remarkably little to improve on CP/M so was equally inadequate as a production environment . |
| 5 | Throughout the coalition , Law was prepared to support its continuation , but he was rarely prepared to argue for concession that would weaken his own party . |
| 6 | I 've got a Congress fund which , I mean today it 's getting so dear to go to Congress erm you know , the hotels are so dear . |
| 7 | It 's true 12 million people go to DIY and shopping centres every Sunday while only 1.2 go to church . |
| 8 | Town planning was neither strong nor coherent enough as a discipline and profession for it to stake a claim and take over other intellectual territory ; as a movement it was too inwardly diverse to be sufficiently self-willed to embark on aggrandizement in its remit . |
| 9 | Many in the industry felt it was worth while taking risks on the peak space heating load , by keeping prices sufficiently low to attract in addition such off-peak evening or spring and autumn space heating loads , as well as the cooking and water heating sales . |
| 10 | So sorry to hear about Win Morgan I was , fine woman , your mam . ’ |
| 11 | A possible ( relatively ) benign explanation might be presented for GPs ' failure to pursue a non compulsory route : that women , whose conventional role involves running the home and family , would be less willing to go into hospital precisely because of their feelings of responsibility for others in the home . |
| 12 | The figures thus lend support to any intuitive sense we have that the effect of his ordeal in scene six is reflected in his being less willing to talk at length . |
| 13 | How much this matters in practice depends on the significance that levels of attainment come to acquire in the grouping of children within and between schools , and in the perceptions of pupils by their teachers . |
| 14 | Words are so crude , so terribly primitive compared to drawing , painting , sculpture . |
| 15 | Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely . |
| 16 | Before the volcanic cloud was dispersed and SO 2 converted to sulphate aerosols , O 3 perturbations caused by large concentrations of SO 2 in the volcanic cloud may have occurred . |
| 17 | Oil is also the raw material for the plastic used in manufacturing new bags so this saves in excess of another four million gallons of oil that would otherwise be used in their production . |
| 18 | I 'm only half joking of course when I say that by comparison the rip-offs and the scams and the scandals mean nothing . |
| 19 | This was not a lucrative job , but she had had so much to do at home that she could n't undertake anything else . |
| 20 | The feminists had marched in thousands when David Laing MP , in his maiden speech , urged married women to give up their jobs because ‘ there is so much to do at home ’ ; they sabotaged a cricket pitch ( cricket being ‘ male idleness elevated into a religion ’ ) etching into the grass with acid their crudest symbol : a round-cornered diamond to represent a vulva , with a large clitoris and no opening . |
| 21 | Blown-up extracts from contemporary Paris newspapers , on panels larger than the works of art on display , suggest that the district 's sudden fame was not so much to do with art or philosophy , but the novel phenomenon of la jeunesse . |
| 22 | We may well endorse the saying regarding him who had so much to do with road-making in the Highlands and islands ; ‘ if you had seen these roads before they were made you would have blessed brave General Wade , ’ and wish prosperity to the Highland Railway Company . |
| 23 | images or whatever , are n't so much to do with misogyny , some horrible male plot , some patriarch or conspiracy , it 's to do with the way our society is run and I think that 's , we look far more at class . |
| 24 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 25 | ‘ But specialists tell me so much depends on attitude . |
| 26 | Then I began on custom and practice — a fascinating subject , because so much depends on precedent rather than formal agreements . |
| 27 | But assessed differences in the abilities of students at college admission are notoriously unreliable predictors to performance because so much depends on personality , on character and on " intelligence in action " — that is , the active use to which students put their intellectual capacities . |
| 28 | yeah yes I wondered if David would be on bus , I saw Wendy having a he worked later today because he 's got so much done on front of the er that weather he could n't er , do any decorating outside still we never got nobbled down street providing the er canvassers |
| 29 | Diatryma seems , after all , to have been a meat-eater , its head reinforced not so much to cut through meat as to cope with the sudden shocks when its bite hit bone . |
| 30 | There 'd be so much to learn about fabric , about draping … |