Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [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 | MS-DOS did remarkably little to improve on CP/M so was equally inadequate as a production environment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So sorry to hear about Win Morgan I was , fine woman , your mam . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely . |
| 11 | This was not a lucrative job , but she had had so much to do at home that she could n't undertake anything else . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There 'd be so much to learn about fabric , about draping … |
| 19 | We have so much to learn from youth and community training , as well as our partners overseas . |
| 20 | Secondly , it 's obviously impossible to look at endomembrane channels using this technique . |
| 21 | It 's so easy to do in rehearsal and yet , when that moment comes , something happens to your throat . |
| 22 | ‘ Of course , if you get married now , ’ Aunt Lilian said , ‘ you may not find it so easy to get into politics . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ There 's usually a lot of tension on movie sets , but on these films it 's so easy to work in unison . |
| 24 | Delicious dates come from the Middle East , and are especially easy to obtain at Christmas time . |
| 25 | Local transport : Local buses link the various resorts on the lake ; though it 's much nicer to travel by ferry or hydrofoil . |
| 26 | And it 's so hard to sift between pro- and anti-abortionists , liberals and reactionaries . |
| 27 | She gave a light , forced little laugh , moving away from the touch of his hand , which was wreaking such havoc on emotions she had tried so hard to keep under control . |
| 28 | When the product or service being exchanged is complex ( as is the case with health care ) , it is either impossible or extremely costly to specify in advance in a written contract every contingency that might affect the transaction . |
| 29 | Once a worry-eater — usually a woman — learns to become more aware of herself and her emotions in the way shown in part II , she will be more able to control her reactions to stress and anxiety and less likely to turn to food for comfort . |
| 30 | There is certainly some evidence that people who drink one or two units a day are less likely to die of heart disease than people who drink no alcohol at all . |