Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 My method of writing and producing a play was as follows : being a little lazy and a great procrastinator , I would leave the writing of the Saturday night play until the day before , meanwhile working out the plot and sequence of scenes in my head .
2 On one level , it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read .
3 ‘ Nigel is so laid-back and a real joker but he works like hell and gets the horses very fit .
4 Their seven-wicket victory with seven overs to spare was only marginally less emphatic than a crushing 10-wicket triumph in the second match on Saturday .
5 There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point .
6 In some cases , preferences are relatively weak , so that two ordered results are produced ; in others , the preferences are so strong that a second result is not produced .
7 The museum , owned by U.S. Aerobatic Team member Kermit Weeks , was totally demolished by winds reported to have exceeded 200 mph — so strong that a DC-6 which had been parked at the airport was found over a mile away .
8 There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers .
9 Already losses in fibre are so low that a light signal can travel well over 16 km before it halves in intensity ( a 3 dB loss ) .
10 One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate .
11 Remember that Fermi resonance is only possible when a fundamental and a second-order band have the same symmetry and are close together in energy .
12 The rooms are back to normal , but much tidier and a good deal cleaner . ’
13 The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ .
14 There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account .
15 Not only that but a collective bargain is a method of suppressing individual differences between workers .
16 These are especially acute where a substantial private company is being acquired in a Reverse or Super Class One transaction .
17 Thompson , Chesson and Chamerovzow remained personally friendly but a later effort at co-operation in 1859 between the BFASS and Thompson 's London Emancipation Committee produced more recriminations .
18 An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably .
19 The ceremony is much shorter than a religious one so many people like to hold a service of blessing afterwards .
20 The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’
21 Inactivation of the octamer binding site results in a higher level of gene expression in cells which contain only Oct-1 and a lower level in cells containing the cervical octamer binding protein indicating that whilst Oct-1 binding reduces promoter activity , the cervical protein increases it .
22 Tony Paignton , although only twenty-one and a merry-faced person bubbling over with fun , was an intensely serious young man .
23 For lips that stick , and a crisper outline ( less ageing than a fuzzy one ) , outline lips with lip pencil in a shade that matches your lipstick .
24 The keep , which is 120 feet high , has been slowly and accurately restored in recent years , but the rest of the castle is a shell , with the outlines of the rooms that ran inwards from the walls alone visible and a single stairway up one of the buttresses on to the crumbling battlements .
25 Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created .
26 It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead .
27 The last time I had seen ‘ Reading ’ in Cammell Laird 's yard , on a fleeting autumn visit , she had resembled nothing so much as a squashed Nestle 's milk tin .
28 Nothing improves plants so much as a pleasant setting — I have a large lump of tufa , a porous limestone rock , planted up with saxifrages , as a centre piece in one of my arid corners .
29 One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption .
30 " The unrest of which we hear so much as a new disease exists chiefly in the minds of the agitators " , chief among whom was Havelock Wilson himself but also his associates , especially Edward Tupper , " a fraudulent imposter who , while pretending to be an enemy of Capital , was in reality a bankrupt company promoter " .
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