Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was big enough for two but not really for three , especially when one of them was a great big lout . |
| 2 | Wherever you are , precious dollars can be saved at dinner by remembering that American portions are huge and often quite enough for two if not more . |
| 3 | She was wise enough for that and so , I think , was Colonel Goreng . |
| 4 | Obviously their monetary role can tell us much about monetary and perhaps also economic activity in any society , and this aspect will be discussed in Chapter 4 . |
| 5 | I find it almost incredible that the men taking part in the tests were not monitored regularly throughout the rest of their lives , if only for scientific and not humanitarian reasons . |
| 6 | This is true not only for ageing but also for the onset of disabilities ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 7 | It 's only after that that once again she begins to be worried at possible consequences ‘ What if God hath seen and death ensue , then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another Eve ’ and therefore , of course , ‘ Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe ’ . |
| 8 | Commentators have described it as a ‘ Stalinist trial ’ , not only of Pavlović but also of others who hold similar views . |
| 9 | Lewis had got to know him because he was a frequent visitor to Oxford , anxious to get a job in the Oxford English Faculty , and a friend not only of Tolkien but also of Nevill Coghill . |
| 10 | For much of 1981 we were running not only behind Labour but also behind the alliance formed by the Liberals and the newly created Social Democratic Party of David Owen , Bill Rodgers , Shirley Williams and Roy Jenkins . |
| 11 | Of those with current agreements , the 16 per cent or so with three or more running together have roughly twice as costly weekly or monthly payments to make as those with only one . |
| 12 | The ‘ soft ’ tradition is , apparently , concerned to ‘ treat people as people , and [ is ] concerned less with law-making and more with speculative exploration ’ . |
| 13 | However , if people expected a lucid analysis of the ills of contemporary education , together with appropriate and carefully contrived proposals for change , they were disappointed . |
| 14 | His natural talent and readiness to learn , together with irregular but extremely fruitful attendance at the Istituto di Belle Arti , were to make of him the amazing so-called ‘ painter of Old Masters ’ . |
| 15 | If the general base is selected , together with two or more other bases , then different divisions of a text may have different constituents , though each division must itself be homogeneous . |
| 16 | As we have seen , the legitimizing institutions together with established and indeed aspiring subject groups share the vested interest in the belief that ‘ a scholarly discipline ’ is needed if a school subject is to be granted high status . |
| 17 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 18 | Half a million foreign tourists visited the USSR in 1950 , but over two million did so in 1971 and over five million did so in the late 1980s . |
| 19 | This is because of the great importance of infant mortality , the weightiest component of life expectancy and general mortality in developing countries , and also because a large body of observations concerning the effects are available not only from developed but also from developing countries and which are much more reliable than data on fetal mortality . |
| 20 | Only in small and relatively unified societies , not fragmented by industrialization and the resultant division of labour , was it likely that citizens would be more aware of their membership of society as a whole than of their particular social , occupational or interest group within it . |
| 21 | According to Weber direct democracy is possible only in small and relatively simple societies , whereas beyond this stage , in societies which have become larger , more complex and more differentiated — and especially in modern societies — direct rule by the people is out of the question . |
| 22 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
| 23 | For Dewey democracy was to be understood not only in political but also in social and economic terms ; as a way of life and as a moral ideal and not simply as a form of government . |
| 24 | Yes , well the economic effect on our own country , well when I say under , er Europe , er , with this proposal that er , we have to open up our markets er for the benefit of the Soviet , er because , that is going to cost er , what they 're , what they 're asking for , not only in Soviet but also across Eastern Europe is that the agricultural market , the steel , and the textile market , all the most sensitive areas , should be opened up to them , and that 's going to shed a , a great increase in unemployment er within the , within the common market . |
| 25 | Aristotle criticized Democritus ( c.460–390 BC ) for believing only in efficient and not in final causes , that is , in strict determinism rather than in teleology . |
| 26 | Churchill himself was interested not only in this but also in the wider implications of nuclear developments in the 1950s . |
| 27 | What this suggests then is that although it may be necessary to tolerate the practice , it should be conducted only in exceptional and highly controlled circumstances under which there is adequate scrutiny and review by institutions independent of the executive branch of government . |
| 28 | Indeed , children often acquire less class orientation from parents not only in taught but also in practical terms . |
| 29 | However , it is not only in these but also in most longer courses that there is scope for an imaginative alliance between the institutions , authorities and students . |
| 30 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |