Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Logic suggests that blame for such a situation must usually be equally divided , and that there are just as many bad , uncaring or downright lazy mothers as there bad , selfish and irresponsible fathers .
2 Perhaps it would be wiser to concentrate research on the development of non-invasive biological markers to distinguish rapidly progressive from slowly progressive tumours as well as on the development of less invasive ( for example , endocrine ) treatment .
3 and presumably different ages as well and erm you know , there 's no set rule to getting over you know , the
4 They were not quite the least well educated : in our panel , Mirror readers had slightly less professional qualifications than even Sun/Star readers , though every other paper 's readers ( and non-readers ) had much more .
5 We indicated in the original report that leisure electronics generalists such as Seiko , Smith-Corona , Texas Instruments , and Aurora were hurriedly investing in spellchecker products and rapidly bringing ranges to the market at much lower prices than either Franklin or SelecTronics .
6 Dichotic listening thus appeared to offer a comparatively simple , non-invasive technique for determining the speech dominant hemisphere in neurologically intact subjects as well as in neurosurgical patients , since the side of speech dominance shows up as an advantage for digits presented to the contralateral ear .
7 It is only when one moves into the realms of complicated , multi-column pages which have several different sizes and styles of print with perhaps some photographs as well that the user really needs to worry about page makeup software .
8 ‘ In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living …
9 It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account .
10 Traditionally , gold and silver were the most highly prized metals although occasionally other metals or alloys were equally in demand .
11 With undisguised relish a leading liberal historian embellishes the account left by one populist of what the peasants did with the revolutionary pamphlets distributed : ‘ They tore them up to roll cigarettes — paper was so scarce , they explained ’ — and one may assume they used them for less delicate purposes as well . ’
12 But there are two other , less obvious laws as well .
13 Only a king could inherit what Cromwell had defended , albeit a king under much closer restrictions than ever before .
14 Partly this was explained by the location of the papacy on the borders of France , at Avignon , and partly by the fact that so many cardinals as well as popes were French .
15 She says the students wo n't be able to afford to buy so many books as well , so they 'll be more dependent on the library .
16 SUDDENLY more Germans than ever are talking about the feasibility of reunification .
17 There were less important engagements as well : he had agreed to give a talk on behalf of the Episcopal Fellowship in Washington , but an announcement of his visit had appeared in the Washington Post and , much to his alarm , the little meeting hall was overflowing with people .
18 Yet if it were known that microcephalic babies ( perhaps older infants as well — would it make a difference ? ) were regularly sold to research laboratories , then there would undoubtedly be an outcry .
19 Some won their battles , but many others discovered that in law they were merely tenants-at-will and that as a consequence they had to pay much higher rents than before .
20 So back they switch , to shorter repayment periods — which mean not merely higher monthly instalments but in this case very much higher APRs as well .
21 You passed GCSE , and perhaps other exams as well .
22 They can be differentiated along a continuum , one end of which consists of a community of individuals sharing everything , while the other end is characterized by a number of family groups which share a house , and perhaps other things as well , but whose degree of involvement as individuals in the collective is limited .
23 The adventure stones which last longest and date least are , I believe , those in which the hero at least , and perhaps other characters as well , develop as a result of the challenges offered to them .
24 At one time tickets were issued at Wharf , Pendre and Abergynolwyn , and perhaps other stations as well , but in later years tickets were issued from a mobile booking office in the guard 's van .
25 " The workplace of the future will demand more highly skilled workers than ever
26 If you had SUPERFILE you could not only produce MailSorted address labels for all those people , but you could do much subtler selections as well — all in a few minutes and at the press of a few keys .
27 There were thus foreign-policy implications as well as business issues at stake .
28 He does , however , urge that disclosure orders ought not to be made save in the most exceptional circumstances lest otherwise the public interest underlying the immunity be insidiously destroyed .
29 Enid Bagnold 's creepy comedy is dated in more subtle ways as well — ‘ She 's behind the escallonia hedge , ’ sounds like a line dropped from a Beatrice Lillie sketch — but , in this strongly cast production , it also retains much of its original charm and piquancy .
30 These are the more controversial matters where sometimes people have conflicting views or there are dilemmas and contradictions for people .
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